20:22, 19 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS: Number one grandmaster of Armenia Levon Aronian with whites played a draw with Russian chess player Peter Svidler in 4th tour of World Championship Candidates Tournament held in London. As reports Armenpress, the game ended on 30th step.
As reports Armenpress, Levon Aronian is leading the tournament table with 3 points.
Peter Svidler has 2.5 points and Norwegian Magnus Carlsen is on the 3rd place with 2 points.
Magnus Carlsen- Alexander Grischyuk, Teimour Radjabov -Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand- Vassily Ivanchuk are competing on March 19.
The Candidates Tournament is a chess tournament organized by the world chess federation FIDE since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship. The winner of the Candidates earns the right to a match for the World Championship against the incumbent World Champion.
Source: http://armenpress.am
Aronian rocks.
Aronian rocks, yes, but Armenpress doesn’t. To report scores as they were after the Aronian-Svidler game today, and before the end of the Carlsen-Grischuk game, claiming that Carlsen is in 3rd place, discloses the great and good enthusiasm of Armenians for their countryman Aronian, but also discloses an unrealistic and overbearing attitude. Before he died, I was good friends with an Armenian native who attended the Petrosian-Botvinnik Match in Moscow in 1963. I loved his enthusiam for the game, but I never detected in him the overbearing, but understandable, nonsense that is coming out of Armenpress these days.