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Chess: Champions Showdown: Armenia’s Levon Aronian takes 7th place

News.am, Armenia
Sept 11 2021

Levon Aronian (Armenia) placed seventh, with 4 points out of 9, in the Champions Showdown Chess 9LX tournament that ended in St. Louis, USA.

In the last two rounds, the Armenian chess grandmaster played a draw with Sam Shankland (USA) and lost to Leinier Dominguez (USA), who took the first place, with 6 points.

The prize fund of this chess competition is $150 thousand, and the winner will receive $37,500.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS