ARONYAN AMONG FAVORITES
Support A1+!“Morelia – Linares” chess championship is to be launched tomorrow. The Armenian grand master Levon Aronyan will participate in the championship for the third time. Levon won in this championship in 2006.
Aronyan is to compete with Vishvanatan Anand, Vasili Ivanchuk, Veselin Topalov, Peter Lekon, Temur Rajabov, Aleksey Shirov and Magnus Marlens during the championship. All the mention chess men participated in “Korus Chess- 2008” championship in Veyk-an-Zee, Holland in January, which ended with Aronyan’s victory. As compared “Korus Chess – 2008”, in “Morelia - Linares” the chess men will have to compete in two rounds. The first round will take place on 15-23 February in Morelia, Mexico and the second round will take place on 28 February – 7 March in Linares, Spain.
International bookmakers consider Anand the favorite of the championship, then Aronyan and Kramnik.
