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Chess | 06.09.10 | 11:47

Chess: Aronian in Shanghai tourney before leading Armenia to Olympiad

By Suren Musayelyan
ArmeniaNow Deputy Editor
Armenia’s top chess player Levon Aronian, who is due to lead his nation at the Olympiad later this month, enters Monday’s Round 4 of a 2010 Grand Slam Masters Final tournament sharing the lead with Spain’s Alexei Shirov.

In the first half of the four-man competition played in Shanghai, China, that ended on Sunday Aronyan beat Chinese chessman Wang Hao with black pieces, drew with Shirov (with whites) and with Russia’s Vladimir Kramnik (with blacks).

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