LEVON ARONIAN REGISTERS POOR START AT AMBER TOURNAMENT

Aysor
March 15 2010
Armenia

Armenia’s Grand Master Levon Aronian won over Sergei Kariakin in a
‘rapid’ round of the 19th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament,
being held in Nice; however, Aronian fixed a poor start in ‘rapid’
and ‘blind’ sets with Magnus Carlsen.

After Round II, held on Sunday, Levon Aronian with a point seeded
eights at a ‘rapid’ contest, and shares with Leinier Dominguez 11-12th
places at a ‘blind’ one.

The tournament table is lead by Vasily Ivanchuk and Ruslan Ponomaryev,
followed by Peter Svidler and Vladimir Kramnik at 2.5 points each.