22/03/2010 12:26
Levon Aronyan in the 9th position
The 7th and 8th rounds of the “Amber” chess tournament in France took place. The Armenian representative Levon Aronyan at first played with the former world champion Vladimir Kramnik. In the “Blind” game Kramnik took a privilege over the Armenian chess player. In the fast chess Levon Aronyan was stronger. In this contest they received the following score, 1:1.
In the two games of the 8th round the Armenian Grand Master signed a peaceful treaty with Boris Gelfand.
Thus in the last two rounds Levon Aronyan gained only 2 points. Now he is on the 9th position with 7 points. The leader is Ukrainian Ivanchuk with 11 points.