Chess: Levon Aronian to participate at 2017 Gran Chess Tour second event

Emil Lazarian 2017
Panorama, Armenia

Armenian GM Levon Aronian plans to take part in the 2017 Grand Chess Tour tournament in Leuven, Belgium from June 28 to July 2. The Armenian player will play one-round rapid and 2-round blitz events.

As the National Olympic Committee of Armenia reports, this year’s tournament features Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Fabiano Caruana, Sergey Karjakin, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Viswanathan Anand, and Levon Aronian.

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Emil Lazarian

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