ARMENIA’S ARONIAN FACES WORLD CHAMPION ANAND OF INDIA

May 8, 2013

Grandmaster (GM) Levon Aronian is playing against the World Champion,
GM Viswanathan Anand (India), in Wednesday’s first round of the Norway
Chess 2013 super tournament, which kicked off in Stavanger, Norway.

The objective of Tuesday’s blitz tournament was to decide the
random draw numbers of the participants in the main competition. As
a result of this tournament, Aronian-who plays first board for the
three-time World Chess Olympiad champion Armenian national team and
who is currently ranked second in the World Chess Federation (FIDE)
Ratings-took ninth place.

A total of ten GMs are competing in Norway Chess 2013.

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