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YEREVAN, JANUARY 18, ARMENPRESS. According to the leader of the Armenian Men’s Chess Team Levon Aronian, the mistakes by his opponents were mainly the basis of his victory in the consecutive round of Tata Steel Tournament.
“Technique was not important in this game. I achieved victory not due to wonderful game, but due to the mistakes of my opponent. I just successfully used my position. I reached priority also due to practicing greater pressure,” Aronian said as reported by “Armenpress”.
The Armenian chess player is the leader after five rounds. Aronian has 4 points, Giri and So holding the 2nd and 3rd places each have 3, 5 points.
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.
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.