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  • Aronian Of Armenia Winner Of The Fourth Grand Prix FIDE Tournament I

    ARONIAN OF ARMENIA WINNER OF THE FOURTH GRAND PRIX FIDE TOURNAMENT IN NALCHIK

    armradio.am
    30.04.2009 16:37

    Grand Master Levon Aronian of Armenia became the winner of the
    fourth Grand Prix FIDE tournament which has come to the end in
    Nalchik. Having won in last round against Hungarian Peter Leko, the
    Armenian grandmaster scored 8.5 points out of 13 and on bypassing
    Leko and the compatriot Vladimir Akopian with one point, who shared
    2nd and 3rd 3 places with 7.5 points each.

    After this tournament Aronian moved tothe third place in the general
    Grand Prix standings following Teimur Radzhabov and Alexander Grischuk
    and became one of the main applicants for a victory in the series.

    The winners of the 4th FIDE Grand Prix tournament were celebrated
    in the Music Theatre of the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, ChessBase
    news reports.

    The chief arbiter Vyacheslav Namruev announced the official results of
    the tournaments. He pointed out that the 14 chess players of the 20
    strongest grandmasters of the world gathered in Nalchik. The events
    of this round of the FIDE Grand Prix were watched in many countries
    of the world. The last day the Grand Prix site was visited by users
    from 150 countries of the world. The uncompromising battle was going
    on up to the last day. The winner of the 4th round of the FIDE Grand
    Prix is Levon Aronyan from Armenia.

    The large plastic check with the prize sum was pre sented to the
    winner by FIDE Vice-President Geoffrey Borg, the head of the KBR
    government Andrew Yarin and the minister of sport and tourism of KBR
    Aslan Afaunov. Levon Aronian in his turn thanked the organizers of
    the contest and said: "I have spent wonderful days here. When I was
    going to Nalchik my parents told me that people are very friendly
    and hospitable here. Nalchik is a perfect place for holding chess
    tournaments."
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