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    CHESS REVIEW: LEVON ARONYAN REACHED THE LEADER

    http://times.am/?l=en&p=3918
    19.01.12

    Three important chess tournament now are taking place which may be
    interesting for Armenian chess funs. Armenian 72nd Men's Championship
    and Armenian 67th Women's Championship are held in Yerevan and "Tata
    Steel" chess festival is held in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands.

    Hrant Melqumyan has shared a point with Zaven Andreasyan on the seventh
    tour of Men's Championship. Melqumyan is the leader of the championship
    with 4.5 points. Arman Pashikyan and Tigran L. Petrosyan have also won.

    Men's championship, 7th tour

    Grigoryan Avetik - Hovhannisyan Robert 1 / 2 Grigoryan Karen H -
    Ter-Sahakyan Samvel 1 / 2 Pashikian Arman - Simonian Hrair 1 -
    0 Andriasian Zaven - Melkumyan Hrant 1 / 2 Petrosian Tigran L -
    Babujian Levon 1 - 0 Standing:

    1.Melkumyan Hrant 4.5 2.Andriasian Zaven 4 3.Petrosian Tigran L 4
    4.Hovhannisyan Robert 4 5.Pashikian Arman 3.5 6.Ter-Sahakyan Samvel
    3 7.Grigoryan Avetik 3 8.Minasian Artashes 3 9.Grigoryan Karen H
    2.5 10.Simonian Hrair 2 11. Babujian Levon 1.5 On the 7th round of
    the Women's championship Maria Kursova and Anna Hayrapetyan have
    celebrated victory. They have gotten six points and are the leaders
    of the tournament. Kursova has missed one tour.

    Women's Championship, 67th round

    Aghabekian Liana - Gasparian Narine 1 - 0 Movsisian Naira - Gevorgyan
    Maria 1 - 0 Doluhanova Evgeniya - Kursova Maria 0 - 1 Hairapetian Anna
    - Ghambaryan Hasmik 1 - 0 Sargsyan Shushanna - Martirosyan Lia 1 / 2

    Standing:

    1.Hairapetian Anna 6 2.Kursova Maria 6 3.Sargsyan Shushanna 3.5
    4.Aghabekian Liana 3.5 5.Doluhanova Evgeniya 3.5 6.Martirosyan Lia
    3 7.Gasparian Narine 2.5 8.Movsisian Naira 2.5 9.Kharatyan Anahit
    2 10.Ghambaryan Hasmik 1.5 11. Gevorgyan Maria 1 Levon Aronyan won
    his rival on the fourth tour of the Wejk aan Zee championship and is
    equal with the leader of championship Magnus Carlsen.

    Sergey Karayakin also won his rival, Davit Navara. The other games
    ended in drawn.

    Aronian, L. - Kamsky, G. 1 - 0 Caruana, C. - Carlsen, M. 1 / 2 Gelfand,
    B. - Radjabov, T. 1 / 2 Giri, G. - Nakamura, H. 1 / 2 Ivanchuk,
    V. - Van Wely, L. 1 / 2 Navara, D. - Karjakin, S. 0 - 1 Topalov,
    V. - Gashimov, V. 1 / 2 Standing 1. Aronian, L. 3 2. Carlsen, M. 3
    3. Caruana, F. 2½ 4. Radjabov, T. 2½ 5. Giri, A. 2 6. Ivanchuk, V. 2
    7. Karjakin, S. 2 8. Topalov, V. 2 9. Van Wely, L. 2 10. Gashimov,
    V. 1½ 11. Gelfand, B. 1½ 12. Kamsky, G. 1½ 13. Nakamura, H. 1½
    14. Navara, D. 1

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