LEVON ARONIAN TO TAKE PART IN MORELIA-LINARES CHESS SUPERTOURNAMENT
Noyan Tapan
Feb 14, 2008
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 14, NOYAN TAPAN. Drawing of lots of the highest,
21-class chess supertournament took place on February 13 in the
city of Morelia, Mexico. The tournament’s first part will be held on
February 15-23 in Morelia and the second from February 28 to March
7 in the city of Linares, Spain. Eight strongest chess players,
Vishvantan Anand (India), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Alexei Shirov
(Spain), Peter Leko (Hungary), Vasili Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Levon Aronian
(Armenia), Teymur Rajabov (Azerbaijan), and Magnus Karlsen (Norway)
will take part in the tournament. It should be mentioned that Levon
Aronian is the 2006 winner of Morelia-Linares tournament.