LEVON ARONIAN LEADER IN GRAND PRIX INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT

Noyan Tapan
Aug 24, 2009

JERMUK, AUGUST 24, NOYAN TAPAN. Jermuk’s Grand Prix International
Chess Tournament finished on August 23.

In the last, 13th round Levon Aronian (Armenia) beat Ernesto Inarkiyev
(Russia) and shared the 2nd and 3rd places with Boris Gelfand (Israel)
with 8 points each. The second representative of Armenia, Vladimir
Hakobian was defeated by Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), gained 5 points
and shared the 11th-12th places with Dmitry Yakovenko (Russia) having
the same result.

Vasily Ivanchuk won the tournament with 8.5 points.

Grand Prix Jermuk competition was the 5th. In the general calculation
Levon Aronian keeps the role of a leader with 500 points.