Chess: Armenia’s Aronyan second in Rapid Chess tourney in Spain

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A tiebreak was required to decide the winner in Sunday’s Aronyan-Gelfand match

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Blitz tiebreak games were required to decide the winner of a hotly contested rapid chess tournament final featuring an Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronyan competing in fast chess against three other grandmasters at a prestigious tournament in Spain Sunday.

Beating Cuban chess master Leinier Dominguez in the semifinal, Aronyan headed for the final of the XXIII Ciudad De Leon tournament (June 3-6) in Leon where he would play Israel’s Boris Gelfand, the winner of the semifinal battle against Spain’s Francisco Vallejo.

The Leon Masters finals played on Sunday proved a battle of nerves as its two opening games ended in a draw.
According to chess news portal www.chessbase.com, Aronyan then outplayed Gelfand in the third game to take the lead, but lost in game four, triggering a blitz tiebreak rule. The Israeli won both tiebreak games and the trophy, leaving Aronyan, the 2009 World Rapid Chess champion, in the second position.

More details about Aronyan’s participation in the Leon Masters are available here: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6397

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