Grand Chess Tour: Aronian on the Penultimate Place on the Results of the First Game Day

• 06.29.2017, 12:27
•  Armenia,  No-politics

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Armenian chess player Levon Aronian after the first game day of the second round of the Grand Chess Tour series in Leuven (Belgium) takes the penultimate, 9^th place.

In the tournament 10 grandmasters play one round in Rapid (June 28-30) and two rounds in blitz (July 1-2),  Novosti-Armenia reports.

After last three rounds on Wednesday the leader in Rapid is American Wesley So with 5 points, 2-3 places are shared by the Russian Yan Nepomnyaschy and Frenchman Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - 4 points each.

4-8 lines are occupied by Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Anish Giri (Netherlands), Viswanathan Anand (India), Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) and Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) with 3 points each.

Aronian has 2 points, and the representative of Georgia Baadur Jobava closes the standings with zero result.

According to the rules, in Rapid 2 points are awarded for victory, 1 point for a draw, in a blitz - for victory 1, for a draw - 0.5 points. The total prize fund of the tournament is 150 thousand dollars.