LEVON ARONIAN IS SECOND
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02:11 pm | August 24, 2009
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The Jermuk leg of the Grand Prix tournament dedicated to Tigran
Petrosian has ended in Jermuk. With one round to go, Ukrainian and
Hungarian Grand Masters Vassily Ivanchuk and Peter Leko led the
tournament with 7.5 points each. Sharing second and third places
are Armenian GM and crowd favorite Levon Aronian and Boris Gelfand,
each of whom won their final round games as well.
Another 6 players were within a half point and with the Grand Prix
points and prize money dangling for the taking.
Anyway, with an impressive victory with the black pieces in his final
round game, GM Vassily Ivanchuk scored an undefeated 8.5 out of 13
to win the Jermuk tournament.
In the spectacular final round 13 Peter Leko lost to Israeli Boris
Gelfand. After beating tournament outsider Ernesto Inarkiev, Armenian
GM Levon Aronian gained 8 points sharing second and third places with
Boris Gelfand.
Another Armenian GM Vladimir Akobian took the 11th place with 5 points.
Below are the final standings:
1. Ivanchuk Vassily, UKR, 8,5 2-3. Aronian Levon, ARM, 8 Gelfand Boris,
ISR, 8 4-6. Alekseev Evgeny , RUS, 7,5 Kasimdzhanov Rustam, UZB, 7,5
Leko Peter, HUN, 7,5 7. Karjakin Sergey, UKR, 7 8. Eljanov Pavel, UKR,
6,5 9-10. Kamsky Gata, USA, 6 Bacrot Etienne, FRA, 6 11-12. Akopian
Vladimir, ARM, 5 Jakovenko Dmitry, RUS, 5 13. Inarkiev Ernesto, RUS,
4,5 14. Cheparinov Ivan, BUL, 4.