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YEREVAN, MAY 17, ARMENPRESS. The thrice champion of Chess Olympics, Armenia's strongest chess player Levon Aronian will compete with Veselin Topalov in the next round of Norway chess 2013. The Chess Grand Masters will face each other in the 8th round of Norway chess 2013 tournament being held in Norway.
As reports "Armenpress" Sergey Karjakin tops the rating list of the tournament after the 7th round. GM Sergey Karyakin has scored 5,5 points. Magnus Carlsen is behind the leader for half a point. The Norwegian Grand Master has 5 points in his active. Levon Aronian and the acting champion of the world Viswanathan Anand have 4 points each and share 3rd and 4th places.
Levon Aronian - Levon was born on 6 October, 1982. On the May 2012 FIDE list he had an Elo rating of 2908, making him number three in the world. 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. He was also World Chess960 Champion in 2006 and 2007, World Rapid Chess Champion in 2009, and World Blitz Chess Champion in 2010. 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.