08/11/2010 12:42
Levon Aronyan is the leader
In the 3rd round of the Mikhail Tal tournament taking place in Moscow Levon Aronyan became the leader of the tournament list with 2.5 points. On the second round the Armenian Grandmaster ended the game with Van Hao in draw, and on the 3rd round has taken victory over Boris Gelfand. As we had already informed you before on the first round he had taken victory over over the former world champion Vladimir Kramnik.
Sergey Krayakin, Van Hao, Shahriyar Mamedyarov, Hikaru Nakamura and Alexander Grishchuk share the 2-6 places. Vladimir Kramnik has 1.5 and Boris Gelfand 1 points. Pavel Elyanov and Alexey Shirov have no points yet and conclude the tournament list.