The penultimate 8th round of the super tournament “Grenke Chess Classic” was held yesterday in Baden-Baden.
Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian, playing with the black pieces, ended in draws with the leader of the tournament, Fabiano Caruana, and shares 4-5th places with French Maksim Vachier-Lagrave with the score of 4.5.
The encounter opposing Aronian to Matthias Bluebaum (Germany) will take place in tomorrow’s final round.
In the tournament, Aronian has ended 7 games in draws and won 1 game against Arkadij Naiditsch, representative of Azerbaijan.
Ashot HAKOBYAN