Vassily Ivanchuk spoke about his defeat to Aronyan in Candidates Tournament

YEREVAN, MARCH 18, ARMENPRESS: Ukrainian Grand Master Vassily Ivanchuk dwelled on Aronyan and his play in Candidates Tournament. Aronyan was playing with the black pieces against Vassily Ivanchuk. As Armenpress reports, Ivanchuk told in the briefing with Tournament's official web site.

''Today I just tried to play some creative game but probably for practical reasons it was a bad strategy. 31.c4 was a nice move but there I realized that even if he would start to give me material with every move I would still lose on time, '' said Ivanchuk. Ukrainian lost on the 35th move after making a mistake.

Aronyan played a draw with Magnus Carlsen with whites during Candidates Chess Tournament 2013 in London, after defeated Boris Gelfand. Aronyan got his second win against Ukrainian Ivanchuk and is currently sole leader in London with 2,5 points.

The games will resume as follows : Carlsen – Grischuk, Radjabov – Kramnik and Gelfand – Ivanchuk.