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Tigran Petrosian wants Levon Aronian to be the champion
13:25, 6 October, 2012
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 6, ARMENPRESS: The best grandmaster of our days Levon
Aronian celebrates his 30th anniversary. Armenpress reports that
Tigran Petrosian, the Chess Olympic Champion, congratulated Aronian
and wished him the achievement of the World Champion title. `I have
already congratulated Levon wishing him at least the 10 percent of his
sport success in his private life.'
Levon Aronian was born on 6 October 1982 in Yerevan, Armenia, to Seda
Sarkisovna, an Armenian mining engineer, and Grigory Leontievich, a
Jewish physicist. He was taught to play chess by his sister Lilit at
the age of nine. His first coach was the Grandmaster Melikset
Khachiyan. Aronian won the Chess World Cup 2005. He led the Armenian
national team to the Gold medals in the 2006 (Turin), 2008 (Dresden)
and 2012 (Istanbul) Chess Olympics and at the World Team Chess
Championship in Ningbo 2011. He won the FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2010,
qualifying him for the Candidates tournament for the World Chess
Championship 2012, where he was knocked out in the first round. He was
also World Chess960 Champion in 2006 and 2007, World Rapid Chess
Champion in 2009, and World Blitz Chess Champion in 2010.[3] Aronian
was declared the best sportsman of Armenia in 2005 and was awarded the
title of "Honored Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia" in 2009.
13:25, 6 October, 2012
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 6, ARMENPRESS: The best grandmaster of our days Levon
Aronian celebrates his 30th anniversary. Armenpress reports that
Tigran Petrosian, the Chess Olympic Champion, congratulated Aronian
and wished him the achievement of the World Champion title. `I have
already congratulated Levon wishing him at least the 10 percent of his
sport success in his private life.'
Levon Aronian was born on 6 October 1982 in Yerevan, Armenia, to Seda
Sarkisovna, an Armenian mining engineer, and Grigory Leontievich, a
Jewish physicist. He was taught to play chess by his sister Lilit at
the age of nine. His first coach was the Grandmaster Melikset
Khachiyan. Aronian won the Chess World Cup 2005. He led the Armenian
national team to the Gold medals in the 2006 (Turin), 2008 (Dresden)
and 2012 (Istanbul) Chess Olympics and at the World Team Chess
Championship in Ningbo 2011. He won the FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2010,
qualifying him for the Candidates tournament for the World Chess
Championship 2012, where he was knocked out in the first round. He was
also World Chess960 Champion in 2006 and 2007, World Rapid Chess
Champion in 2009, and World Blitz Chess Champion in 2010.[3] Aronian
was declared the best sportsman of Armenia in 2005 and was awarded the
title of "Honored Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia" in 2009.