Levon Aronian Yields Leadership At Amber 2009

[Nahapetian Zhanna]

LEVON ARONIAN YIELDS LEADERSHIP AT AMBER 2009

PanARMENIAN.Net
18.03.2009 16:44 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In the 4th tour of Amber Chess Tournament 2009 the
Armenian grand master Levon Aronian drew his game against the world
champion Viswanathan Anand. Both rapid and blindfold games ended in
draws. Levon Aronian ceded his leadership to Russia's Vladimir Kramnik,
who beat the Chinese Wang Yue and left behind Aronian and the Russian
grand master Morozevich. After 3 tours Aronian with 5 points to his
score is ranked 2rd to 3rd with Alexander Morozevich.

In the 5th tour of Amber 2009 Levon Aronian will rival Norwegian
grand master Magnus Carlsen.

Score after 4th tour

Blindfold

Magnus Carlsen (Norway)- Peter Leko (Hungary)- 0,5:0,5 Gata Kamsky
(United States)- Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine)- 0,5:0,5 Viswanathan
Anand (India)- Levon Aronian (Armenia)- 0,5:0,5 Alexander Morozevich
(Russia)- Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) - 1:0 Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) -
Wang Yue (China)- 1:0 Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan) - Sergey Karjakin
(Ukraine) - 1:0

Rapid

Leko - Carlsen - 0,5:0,5 Ivanchuk - Kamsky - 0,5:0,5 Aronian - Anand -
0,5:0,5 Topalov - Morozevich - 1:0 Wang Yue - Kramnik - 0:1 Karjakin -
Radjabov - 0:1

Standings after 4th tour: Kramnik - 5,5 points; Aronian, Morozevich
- 5 points, Carlsen, Radjabov, Topalov - 4,5 points, Anand, Leko -
4 points, Kamsky - 3,5 points, Ivanchuk, Karjakin - 3 points, Wang
Yue -1,5 points.