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  Levon Aronian to participate in Grand Slam Chess Masters  August 23, 2010 - 14:22 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian will participate in Grand Slam Chess Masters tournament due September 3-8 in Shanghai. Aronian will rival Vladimir Kramnik, Aleksei Shirov and Wang Hao. Two winners will further be joined by Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand for the four-player final in Bilbao (October 9-15). Meanwhile, grandmasters Ashot Anastasyan and Avetik Grigoryan finished 4th and 5th in Abu-Dhabi open tournament hosting 26 participants. Anastasyan and Grigoryan scored 5,5 points each out of 9 possible. Hovhannes Gabuzyan came 17th, with 4 points to his score. Anton Korobov of Ukraine won the tournament gold with 6,5 points, armchess.am reported.  Top stories Kobe Bryant, Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, Andrew Bynum are among those named as 2012 NBA All-Star Game starters. In Moscow Open’s Student Grandmaster Cup round 7, Armenian grandmaster will face Turkey’s Mustafa Yilmaz. England’s Nigel Short gained the Tradewise tournament gold, having scored a tie-break win over China’s Hou Yifan. Armenia goalkeeper was a Dynamo Moscow keeper from 2002 to 2005, playing 88 matches in Russian championships.   |  Latest news Armenian place of worship demolished in Turkey  Malatya Mayor Ahmet Çakır gave verbal permission for building the place of worship on orders by Malatya Governor Ulvi Saran.Lebanese Armenian MP thanks French envoy for genocide bill adoption Shant Janjanian a thank-you letter to the French envoy to Lebanon, Denis Pietton, for the bill that recently passed the Senate.Puerto Rico to export iguana meat The island has roughly 4 million iguanas, which is a little more than the population of the U.S. Caribbean territory itself.Apple, Samsung to have lion share of smartphone profit in 2012 Maynard Um believes Apple and Samsung will combine to account for more than half of smartphone industry revenues in 2012. |
