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Chess: Levon Aronian named highest ranked chess player in US

  News.am  
Armenia – Feb 10 2022

Due to 3 victories and 2 draws in the first tournament of the FIDE Grand Prix series held in Berlin, Germany, Levon Aronian's personal rating has reached 2,782 according to 2700chess live.

The former leader of the Armenian team has become the American grandmaster with the highest rating, leaving behind Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So.

In Berlin, Levon Aronian scored 4 points out of 5 and secured the first place in Group C, reaching the semifinals.

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