Chess: Aronian is at the top after the quick chess tour

Emil Lazarian 2017
Public Radio of Armenia

Aug 17 2017
12:02, 17 Aug 2017
Armradio

The quick chess tour is over in Saint Louis.

Levon Aronian has defeated the Cuban Grandmaster Leinier Dominguez in the last round and occupies the first place now. The Armenian Grandmaster has 12 points. In the 7th round Aronian had defeated the Russian Grandmaster Sergey Karyakin and in the penultimate round he tied the game with US representative, Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura.

The blitz game tour stats tomorrow, August 18. Ten Grandmasters will take part in the tour where they will play one rapid and two blitz games.

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