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Levon Aronian to start competition in Grand Chess Tour today


Photo: norwaychess.no


The first round of Grand Chess Tour this year will take place in Leuven, Belgium.

Levon Aronian will also perform in the tournament on June 12-16.

His competitors are Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Wesley So Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand, Alexander Grischuk, Sergey Karjakin and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.

The participants will play rapid chess in 9 rounds and blitz chess in 18 rounds. Pairings of rapid chess will take place on June 12-14 and blitz chess on June 15-16, Armenian Chess Federation informs.

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