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    Emil Lazarian
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    • Categories: 2019

Chess: Aronian slips to 12th on latest FIDE ratings

Panorama, Armenia
March 1 2019
Sport 15:21 01/03/2019 Armenia

Armenian GM Levon Aronian slipped two spots to 12th on the latest World Chess Federation (FIDE) ratings.

Meantime, Gabriel Sargissian ranks 52nd and Hrant Melkumyan comes 88th on the list, the Armenian National Olympic Committee told Panorama.am.

Norwegian GM Magnus Carlsen continues to top the list of strongest chess players of the world.

FIDE has also announced the line-up for the 2019 Grand Prix Series, noting there will be four knock-out events with two winners to be qualified for the 2020 Candidates Tournament.

Aronian is set to play at the first (May 16-30, Moscow), second (July 11-25, Riga) and fourth (December 10-24, Tel Aviv) legs of the championship.

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