Chess: Armenian GM Levon Aronian to take part in Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz

Panorama.am, Armenia

Aug 14 2017

Rapid and Blitz tournament, which is the fourth stop on the Grand Chess Tour 2017, is scheduled to be held in Saint Louis, U.S. from 14-19 August.

The tournament features ten GMs – Garry Kasparov (Russia), Levon Aronian (Armenia), Fabiano Caruana (US), Hikaru Nakamura (US), Viswanathan Anand (India), Sergey Karjakin (Russia), Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia), Lenier Dominguez (Cuba), David Navara (the Czech Republic) and Le Quang Liem (Vietnam).

According to the Armenian National Olympic Committee, the GMs will compete in Rapid tournament on August 14-16, with the Blitz event scheduled on 17-18 August.

In the Blitz games each win is 1 point, a draw is half a point The Rapid games count double, with 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS