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YEREVAN, JANUARY 23, ARMENPRESS: The leader of the Armenian national chess men’s team Levon Aronian is going to participate in the Norway Tournament. The Armenian Chess Federation informed Armenpress that Aronian will take part in a super tournament to be held on July 2-13, 2014 in a few cities of Norway. The rivals of Aronian will be World Champion Magnus Carlsen, Veselin Topalov, Sergey Karjakin, Peter Svidler and Fabiano Caruana.
Four more participants will become known later.
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 "Honored Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia" in 2009.