ARONYAN SUSTAINED HIS FIRST DEFEAT
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[03:58 pm] 17 December, 2008
Armenian Grand Master Levon Aronyan sustained his first defeat at the
chess super-tournament in Nanjing (China) after losing to Bulgarian
Vesselin Topalov at the sixth round.
Before the game the contenders had three points each and ranked
among the tournament leaders. Topalov also enjoyed time privilege
over Aronyan, and the latter had to yield at the 72nd minute.
Chinese Bu Xiangzhi played a tie with Slovakian Sergey Movsisyan and
Russian Peter Svidler won over Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk.
Presently, Vesselin Topalov heads the fixture list with four points. Bu
Xiangzhi is the second followed by Levon Aronyan and Sergey Movsisyan
having three points each.