Archive for Levon Aronian
Sunday, June 03, 2012 19:09
The Anand-Gelfand World Championship match finished four days ago, but the news stream hasn't stopped yet. Vladimir Putin inviting the players at his office, Anand's arrival in India, Gelfand's return to Israel, the reactions on Twitter, Kasparov's criticism, Anand's reaction... In this article we'll mention the most important developments since...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:52
Diplomacy, Peace in Switzerland, U.S. Fantasy, and Fix My Wiki! Or, in other words: The Full English Breakfast #21 is out!
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Friday, May 04, 2012 20:51
Last Sunday we posted a video about the Aronian-Kramnik match, held in the last week of April in Zurich, Switzerland. One of the interviewees was Vladimir Kramnik, but in fact we spoke a bit longer with the former World Champion. He said a number of interesting things about the opening choice (1.e4) by his opponent Levon Aronian, and about his...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012 8:19
Magnus Carlsen tops the May 1st FIDE rating list with the same rating as two months ago: 2835. Howevever, his lead has decreased to 10 points as Levon Aronian of Armenia won 5 points to get to 2825.
There were few changes in the world's top 10 in the past two months. At the moment of writing, Aronian's live rating is in fact 2826 so just 9 points...
Sunday, April 29, 2012 21:17
You won't have missed it: in the last week of April, 2012, the world's #2 and #3 chess players Levon Aronian (Armenia) and Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) faced each other in a 6-game, friendly match. The event was organized by the Zurich Chess Club, the oldest chess club in the world. Here's our video with impressions and interviews. In order of...
Saturday, April 28, 2012 17:28
The sixth and final game between Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik ended in a draw, again after 43 moves, and so the match in Zurich ended in 3-3. Aronian avoided the infamous Berlin Ending with 4.d3, and like yesterday the game was very interesting, despite the peaceful outcome. Later we'll have more; for now you can find the last game below,...
Saturday, April 28, 2012 12:32
Here's today's live commentary by GM Sergey Shipov on the sixth and final game of the Aronian-Kramnik match. After an initially quiet then exciting draw in the penultimate game the scores remain level on 2.5:2.5.
The players ranked number 2 and 3 on the FIDE rating list are competing against each other over six classical games. They'll play an...
Friday, April 27, 2012 20:03
The fifth match game between Vladimir Kramnik and Levon Aronian lasted 43 moves, saw quite some excitement especially in the final phase, and eventually ended in a draw. The match score is 2.5-2.5 with one more game to go, which starts at 13:00 CET tomorrow.
This morning we arrived in Zurich to "check out" the Aronian-Kramnik match, and our first...
Friday, April 27, 2012 14:53
Here's today's live commentary by GM Sergey Shipov on the fifth game of the Aronian-Kramnik match. After a relatively quick draw in game four the scores remain level on 2-2 with only two games to go.
The players ranked number 2 and 3 on the FIDE rating list are competing against each other over six classical games. They'll play an additional...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 17:12
The fourth match game Aronian-Kramnik, played today in Zurich, was a rather quick draw in another Berlin Endgame. It ended in under three hours and so the players played a rapid game as well – something that was part of the match conditions. This game was won by Levon Aronian.
For the third time in the match the game started with 1.e4, and for the...
