FIDE Grand Prix: Aronian and Akopian make peace

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian grandmasters Levon Aronian and Vladimir Akopian in the 11 round of Grand Prix FIDE scored equal points. Grandmasters made peace at the 40th move. Plays of Leko, Ivanchuk and Kasymjanov also ended in draws.

 

In the 11th round the Russian Ernesto Inarkiev and Ukrainian Paul Elyanov carried the victory over DmitryYakovenko and Ivan Cheparinov respectively.

 

After 11 rounds Levon Aronian and Yevgeny Alexeyev earned 6.5 points each and they are still lag behind the leaders by the half-points.





On August 22 in 12th round Levon Aronian with Black will play with the Hungarian leader of the tournament Peter Leko. Akopyan will also play with Black with Ernesto Inarkiev.



The results of the 11th round:



Kasymjanov (Uzbekistan) - Leko (Hungary) - 0,5:0,5

Gelfand (Israel) - Kamsky (USA) - 0,5:0,5

Elyanov (Ukraine) - Cheparinov (Bulgaria) - 1:0

Karyakin (Ukraine) - Alekseev (Russia) - 0,5:0,5

Bacrot (France) - Ivanchuk (Ukraine) - 0,5:0,5

Yakovenko (Russia) - Inarkiev (Russia) - 0:1

Akopian (Armenia) - Aronian (Armenia) - 0,5:0,5.



Tournament position after 11 rounds: Ivanchuk, Leko, Kasymjanov - 7; Aronian, Alekseev - 6.5; Karyakin, Gelfand, Elyanov - 6; Bacrot - 5; Akopyan, Kamsky - 4.5; Inarkiev, Yakovenko - 4; Cheparinov - 3.