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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 7, ARMENPRESS: The leader of the Armenian National Chess Men team, the triple Olympic Chess Champion, the Grand Master Levon Aronyan is going to take part in the Grand Slam 6th tournament (Chess Masters Final) to be held on October 7-13 2013 in Bilbao, Spain. As reported by Armenpress, the rivals of Levon will be Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Michael Adams. The tournament will have six rounds.
In the FIDE October rankings Levon Aronyan occupied the third place with 2795 points.
The game “Chess with Levon Aronyan”, developed by the Armenian programmers, is ready. The game is based on the moves of Levon Aronyan’s games, which make the game closer to the Grand Master’s style. The player selects the age of Aronyan to play with. According to the programmers, the game presents Levon Aronyan at the age from 10 to 31. During the game the participant is provided with the opportunity to select one of the six chess boards and the color of the figures – black or white. The game “Chess with Levon Aronyan” has been designed for iPhones and iPods.
Aronyan won theChess World Cup 2005. He led the Armenian national team to the Gold medals in the2006 (Turin),2008 (Dresden) and2012 (Istanbul)Chess Olympicsand at theWorld Team Chess ChampionshipinNingbo2011. He won theFIDE Grand Prix 2008–2010, qualifying him for the Candidates tournament for theWorld Chess Championship 2012, where he was knocked out in the first round. He was also WorldChess960Champion in 2006 and 2007,World Rapid Chess Championin 2009, andWorld Blitz Chess Championin 2010.
Aronyan was declared the best sportsman of Armenia in 2005and was awarded the title of "Honored Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia" in 2009.
Aronyan was born on 6 October 1982 in Yerevan, Armenia.He was taught to play chess by his sister Lilit at the age of nine. His first coach was the Grand MasterMelikset Khachiyan. An early sign of his ability came when he won the 1994World Youth Chess Championship(under-12) inSzegedwith 8/9, ahead of future luminariesÉtienne Bacrot,Ruslan Ponomariov,Francisco Vallejo Pons, andAlexander Grischuk.
Aronyan holds a diploma from theArmenian State Institute of Physical Culture.
Aronyan played for Armenia in theChess Olympiadsof 1996, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010.He took team bronze medal in 2004 and team gold medal in 2006, 2008 and 2012. In the2010 Chess Olympiadhe won the silver medal for his individual performance on board one.He was a member of the gold-medal winning Armenian team at theWorld Team Chess Championshipin 2011.