Levon Aronian played simultaneous games with chess amateurs
16:33, 29 October 2014
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 29, ARMENPRESS: The leader of the Armenian national chess team Levon Aronian held a simultaneous session with the students of the Academy of Public Administration of Armenia. While the amateurs and Aronian played blitz chess, other students asked the grand master questions, one of which was – what is the most memorable game or victory of Aronian.
The grand master told that his most memorable moment was the victory he had when he was 10 and becoming Armenia’s champion.
“The book, which teaches chess at schools, is not a very good one. The author of the book is close to us but the old books are better. Chess teaches the child that life is not fair and that is important”, - said Aronian, Armenpress reports.
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. Levon Aronian occupies the 5th position in the new ranking list. The Armenian GM currently has 2793 points. The reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen tops the ranking list. Fabiano Caruana representing Italy climbed to the 2nd position. Veselin Topalov is the third, while Alexander Grischuk appeared on the fourth spot.
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 "Honored Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia" in 2009.
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