Aronian and Kramnik played draw game first day of unofficial match

PanARMENIAN.Net - Yesterday started the unofficial Rapid Chess match between FIDE World Cupholder, Olympic Champion Levon Aronian (Armenia) and absolute World Champion Vladimir Kramnik (Russia). The first game ended with Russian grandmaster's victory, the Armenian chess player resigned on the 45th move.



During the second set of the day Aronian gained revenge from Kramnik. After the loss in the first game the Armenian chess player managed to equalize the score during the return game. Thus, in the result of the first day of Aronian-Kramnik match the score is equal - 1:1.



Armenian chess player Levon Aronian characterized the first day of the match with Vladimir Kramnik as fighting. This was the 8th meeting between the two grandmasters and Aronian won Kramnik for the first time.



"It's nice for me to win Vladimir for the first time," Aronian told journalist in Yerevan after the second set. According to him in both games the whites had advantage over the black in the debut.



In his part Kramnik said the both games resembled each other and "both games ended as soon as they started". "Like in the first game I managed to catch Levon while preparing, in the second game positions of the black were losing," the Russian grandmaster said. In his words, both games were lost on the debut and "in future we must patch up the holes in the repertoire of the black figures," "SportReport" reports.