ARONYAN HOLDS FIRM POSITION IN QUICK CHESS GAME TOURNAMENT
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
16.11.2009 21:02 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Moscow hosts Fourth Tal Memorial Championship from
November 4 to 18. Fourth robin tournament of XXI category has already
came to end. The second round – world quick game championship –
will last from November 16 to 18.
There are 22 chess players participating in championship, including
Armenian grand master Levon Aronyan. On the first day of tournament,
Aronyan played 8 games, with 4 victories, 2 defeats and 2 draws,
Russian Chess Federation’s official Web site reports. All other
matches are under way.
Levon Aronyan – Boris Gelfand (Israel) 1:0 Aronyan – Dmitry Yakovenko
(Russia) 1:0 Aronyan – Peter Leko (Hungary) 1:0 Aronyan – Vasily
Ivanchuk (Ukraine) 0:1 Aronyan – Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) 0:1 Aronyan
– Alexandra Kostenyuk (Russia) 1:0 Aronyan – Yevgeni Baraev 1/2-1/2