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Levon Aronian to play in Zurich

Levon Aronian to play in Zurich

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 18, ARMENPRESS. The leader of the Armenian men’s chess team Levon Aronian, who occupies the second position in the FIDE ranking list, will take part in Zurich Chess Challenge tournament.  

As reports “Armenpress”, GM Levon Aronian is going to participate in a traditional Zurich Chess Challenge tournament to be held on February 13-19, 2015.

The rivals of Aronian will be GMs Viswanathan Anand, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Vladimir Kramnik and Sergey Karjakin.

Levon Aronian is an Armenian chess Grandmaster. On the May 2012 FIDE list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2825, making him the third highest rated player in history.

Aronian won the Chess World Cup 2005. He led the Armenian national team to the Gold medals in the 2006 (Turin), 2008 (Dresden) and 2012 (Istanbul) Chess Olympics and at the World Team Chess Championship in Ningbo 2011. He won the FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2010, qualifying him for the Candidates tournament for the World Chess Championship 2012, where he was knocked out in the first round. He was also World Chess960 Champion in 2006 and 2007, World Rapid Chess Champion in 2009, and World Blitz Chess Champion in 2010.

Levon Aronian was declared the best sportsman of Armenia in 2005 and was awarded the title of "Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia" in 2009.

 








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