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    LEVON ARONYAN STILL SECOND WORLD CHESS PLAYER

    [ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ]

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/727933/levon-aronyan-still-second-world-chess-player.html
    12:14, 1 August, 2013

    YEREVAN, AUGUST 1, ARMENPRESS: The leader of the Armenian National
    Chess Men team, the triple Olympic Chess Champion Levon Aronyan
    continues being the second chess player of the world.

    As reported by Armenpress, FIDE presented its rating list, where the
    Armenian chess player again occupies the second place.

    In his actives Levon Aronyan has 2813 points. The leader of the
    rating is the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen. The Grand Master has 2862
    points. Fabiano Caruana, Alexander Grischuk and Vladimir Kramnik are
    in the top five.

    Levon Aronyan is an Armenian chess Grandmaster. On the May 2012 FIDE
    list, he had an Elo rating of 2825, making him number two in the
    world and third highest of all time.

    Aronyan 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.

    Aronyan 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.

    Aronyan was born on 6 October 1982 in Yerevan, Armenia. He was taught
    to play chess by his sister Lilit at the age of nine. His first coach
    was the Grand Master Melikset Khachiyan. An early sign of his ability
    came when he won the 1994 World Youth Chess Championship (under-12)
    in Szeged with 8/9, ahead of future luminaries Etienne Bacrot, Ruslan
    Ponomariov, Francisco Vallejo Pons, and Alexander Grischuk.

    Aronyan holds a diploma from the Armenian State Institute of Physical
    Culture.

    Aronyan played for Armenia in the Chess Olympiads of 1996, 2004,
    2006, 2008, and 2010. He took team bronze medal in 2004 and team
    gold medal in 2006, 2008 and 2012. In the 2010 Chess Olympiad he won
    the silver medal for his individual performance on board one. He was
    a member of the gold-medal winning Armenian team at the World Team
    Chess Championship in 2011.

    By July 1 2013 Levon Aronyan is the second world chess player (2813).

    Currently the member of the Armenian National Chess Men team is
    preparing for the World Chess Cup to be held on August 10 in Norway.

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