LEVON ARONIAN WINS TWO VICTORIES AT AMBER BLINDFOLD AND RAPID TOURNAMENT

PanARMENIAN.Net
16.03.2010 13:12 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian scored a victory
over Dutch Jan Smeets in the 3rd round of Amber Blindfold and Rapid
Tournament and is now the 5th in the standings, along with Boris
Gelfand (Israel) and Alexander Gruschuk (Russia). Ukraine’s Vasily
Ivanchuk is in the lead with 4.5 points.

In the 4th round, Aronian will play vs. Ivanchuk.

Levon Aronian (born on October 6, 1982 in Yerevan) is an Armenian
Grandmaster. He is the winner of FIDE Grand Prix in 2008 and 2009 and
2009 World Rapid Chess Champion. He was honored with Movses Khorenatsi
order in 2006 and with an order of merit in 2008.