Levon Aronian scored the win over Francisco Vallejo Pons. Armenia-Spain- 1:0

YEREVAN, AUGUST 30, ARMENPRESS: Armenia’s men’s chess team scores 1:0 over Spain during the third round of 40th Chess Olympics hosted Istanbul.

As Armenperss reports once again the first point of Armenian team belongs to Levon Aronian who scored the win over grandmaster Francisco Vallejo Pons with a beautiful and gentle game.

Let us remind that in January 2012, Aronian competed in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee; the field included world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen, defending champion Hikaru Nakamura, and former world champion Veselin Topalov, among others. The average rating of the field was 2755, making this thirteen-round event a category 21 tournament. After twelve rounds, Aronian was in clear first place with 8.5 points going into the final round, one point ahead of Carlsen and Teimour Radjabov. In the final round, Aronian drew against Radjabov with the white pieces in the King's Indian Defense. With the draw, Aronian finished with 9/13 (+5), a tournament performance rating of 2891, and took clear first place a point ahead of Carlsen, Radjabov and Fabiano Caruana.