LEVON ARONYAN “AMBER” TOURNAMENT CHAMPION
“Amber” tournament launched in Nice, France finished with the perfect victory of Armenian GM Levon Aronian. In the final round Armenian GM ended his match with Vesselin Topalov in draw and scored 14 points. The on-going champion and the ex-champion of the world Anand and Kramnik scored 13,5 points and shared 2-3 horizontals. Carlsen has 13 points in his accounts, Morozevich – 11, Tipalov and Kariakin – 10,5, Kamski and Leko – 10, Ivanchuk – 9,5, Radjabov – 9, Wang Yue – 7,5 points.
“Blindfold” Vesselin Topalov – Levon Aronian 0,5:0,5
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bxf6 Qxf6 7.e3 Nd7 8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 g6 10.0-0 Bg7 11.Rc1 0-0 12.Bb3 Qe7 13.Na4 Rd8 14.Qc2 Nf8 15.Ne5 Bd7 16.Qc5 Qxc5 17.Nxc5 Rab8 18.f4 Be8 19.Rc2 Nh7 20.Rfc1 Nf6 21.a3 Bf8 22.g3 Kg7 23.Kg2 a5 24.Kf3 b6 25.Nxe6 fxe6 26.Nxc6 a4 27.Nxd8 axb3 28.Rc7 Kg8 29.Nxe6 g5 30.e4 Bd7 31.Nxf8 Bg4 32.Ke3 Re8 33.e5 Nd5 34.Ke4 Nxc7 35.Rxc7 Rxf8 36.d5 Bf5 37.Kd4 Bh3 38.fxg5 Rf2 39.e6 Rd2 40.Ke5 Rxb2 41.Rb7 Rb1 42.e7 Re1 43.Kf6 Rf1 44.Ke5 Re1 45.Kf6 Rf1 46.Ke5 Re1:
Rapid: Levon Aronyan – Vesselin Topalov 0,5:0,5
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Bb4 5.Bd2 Be7 6.Bg2 0-0 7.0-0 c6 8.Qc2 b6 9.Bf4 Ba6 10.cxd5 cxd5 11.Rc1 Qd7 12.Ne5 Qb7 13.Qc7 Qxc7 14.Rxc7 Bd6 15.Rc2 Nh5 16.Be3 f6 17.Nd3: