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YEREVAN, JUNE 1, ARMENPRESS: The leader of the Armenian men’s chess team Levon Aronian took the 8th place in the new FIDE ratings. In the June rating list Aronian has 2780 points. The leader is the world champion Magnus Carlsen. The top 10 includes also Fabiano Caruana, Viswanathan Anand, Hikaru Nakamura, Veselin Topalov, Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk, Wesley So and Anish Giri.
Armenpress reports that from the Armenian representatives, Gabriel Sargsyan and Sergey Movsisyan are in the top 100.
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.
Levon 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.