Levon Aronian starts “Sinquefield Cup-2015” with victory

YEREVAN, AUGUST 24, ARMENPRESS. The leader of Armenian National Men’s team Levon Aronian started successfully in the superpower tournament “Sinquefield Cup” in Saint Louis, the USA. As “Armenpress” was informed from the Chess Federation of Armenia, in the first round our representative with white pieces competed against Fabiano Caruana and took victory on the 39th step of the match.

Around the other boards:

Carlsen- Topalov 0-1

Nakamura-Anand 1-0

Giri-Grischuk 1-0

So-Vachier-Lagrave 0-1

In today’s 2nd round Aronian with black pieces will compete against French Vachier-Lagrave.