Aronian to take part in Linares chess 2009
06.02.2009 12:46 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian will take part in Linares chess 2009 that will take place February 18 – March 8, 2009, in Linares, Spain.
The 26th edition of Torneo Internacional “Ciudad de Linares” will be played only in Spain. The Morelia site will not be on the agenda this year, but the organizers have confirmed that in 2010 the Mexican city will rejoin the competition again.
The closing and awarding ceremony is due on March 8.
The full list of participants: Viswanathan Anand (India), Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Levon Aronian (Armenia), Teimour Radjabov(Azrtbaijan), Wang Yue (China), Alexander Grischuk (Russia) and Lenier Dominguez (Cuba).
Levon Aronian is the winner of 2006 tournament. Last year he was the 3rd.
Source: http://www.panarmenian.net
Go Magnus!
This is one lineup I’d like to have seen for a Linares-caliber event:
Vladimir Kramnik
Garry Kasparov
Anatoly Karpov
Viktor Korchnoi
Alexander Khalifman
Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Gata Kamsky
Sergey Karjakin
If held outside Tucson, Arizona, it could have been called “Gunfight at the K Corral”.
Note that besides the “K”, the five winners of World Championship events also have ‘a’ as the primary vowel, and the prospect is still open for Kamsky and Karjakin.
Changing his name to Magnus Karlsen might be a smart career move :-).
Ku Klux Klan
We are going to have a great month of chess: 1. Kamsky-Topalov
2. Linares
Actually in Russian, which is probably the more relevant language :-), Carlsen takes his rightful place while Alexander Халифман gets X-ed out:
Владимир Крамник
Гарри Каспаров
Анатолий Карпов
Виктор Корчной
Рустам Касымжанов
Гата Камский
Сергей Карякин
Магнус Карлсен
That would be quite an event!
This year’s participants are…
Viswanathan Kanand (India),
Magnus Karlsen (Norway),
Vassily Kavanchuk (Ukraine),
Levon Karonian (Armenia),
Teimour Kradjabov(Azerbaijan),
Kang Yue (China),
Alexander Kraschuk (Russia) and
Lenier Kaminguez (Cuba).
Linares will be a great success for Vishy Anand.
okay
Isn’t it time for Ivanchuk to take a break? He has been playing virtually nonstop.
In 2006 it looked like Aronian might rise to a plausible or likely world chess champion challenger. That looks less now in 2009. Aronian is not enough of a machine at studying the openings.