FIDE GRAND PRIX: ARONIAN AND AKOPIAN MAKE PEACE

PanARMENIAN.Net
21.08.2009 20:49 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian grandmasters Levon Aronian and
Vladimir Akopian in the 11 round of Grand Prix FIDE scored equal
points. Grandmasters made peace at the 40th move. Plays of Leko,
Ivanchuk and Kasymjanov also ended in draws.

In the 11th round the Russian Ernesto Inarkiev and Ukrainian Paul
Elyanov carried the victory over DmitryYakovenko and Ivan Cheparinov
respectively.

After 11 rounds Levon Aronian and Yevgeny Alexeyev earned 6.5 points
each and they are still lag behind the leaders by the half-points.

On August 22 in 12th round Levon Aronian with Black will play with
the Hungarian leader of the tournament Peter Leko. Akopyan will also
play with Black with Ernesto Inarkiev.

The results of the 11th round: Kasymjanov (Uzbekistan) – Leko (Hungary)
– 0,5:0,5 Gelfand (Israel) – Kamsky (USA) – 0,5:0,5 Elyanov (Ukraine)
– Cheparinov (Bulgaria) – 1:0 Karyakin (Ukraine) – Alekseev (Russia)
– 0,5:0,5 Bacrot (France) – Ivanchuk (Ukraine) – 0,5:0,5 Yakovenko
(Russia) – Inarkiev (Russia) – 0:1 Akopian (Armenia) – Aronian
(Armenia) – 0,5:0,5.

Tournament position after 11 rounds: Ivanchuk, Leko, Kasymjanov – 7;
Aronian, Alekseev – 6.5; Karyakin, Gelfand, Elyanov – 6; Bacrot – 5;
Akopyan, Kamsky – 4.5; Inarkiev, Yakovenko – 4; Cheparinov – 3.