ARONIAN OF ARMENIA WINNER OF THE FOURTH GRAND PRIX FIDE TOURNAMENT IN NALCHIK

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30.04.2009 16:37

Grand Master Levon Aronian of Armenia became the winner of the
fourth Grand Prix FIDE tournament which has come to the end in
Nalchik. Having won in last round against Hungarian Peter Leko, the
Armenian grandmaster scored 8.5 points out of 13 and on bypassing
Leko and the compatriot Vladimir Akopian with one point, who shared
2nd and 3rd 3 places with 7.5 points each.

After this tournament Aronian moved tothe third place in the general
Grand Prix standings following Teimur Radzhabov and Alexander Grischuk
and became one of the main applicants for a victory in the series.

The winners of the 4th FIDE Grand Prix tournament were celebrated
in the Music Theatre of the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, ChessBase
news reports.

The chief arbiter Vyacheslav Namruev announced the official results of
the tournaments. He pointed out that the 14 chess players of the 20
strongest grandmasters of the world gathered in Nalchik. The events
of this round of the FIDE Grand Prix were watched in many countries
of the world. The last day the Grand Prix site was visited by users
from 150 countries of the world. The uncompromising battle was going
on up to the last day. The winner of the 4th round of the FIDE Grand
Prix is Levon Aronyan from Armenia.

The large plastic check with the prize sum was pre sented to the
winner by FIDE Vice-President Geoffrey Borg, the head of the KBR
government Andrew Yarin and the minister of sport and tourism of KBR
Aslan Afaunov. Levon Aronian in his turn thanked the organizers of
the contest and said: "I have spent wonderful days here. When I was
going to Nalchik my parents told me that people are very friendly
and hospitable here. Nalchik is a perfect place for holding chess
tournaments."