Levon Aronian
Լեւոն Արոնյան (Armenian )
Levon Aronian, Levon Aronian also, English transcription and FIDE Levon Aronian name (Armenian Լեւոն Արոնյան; born October 6, 1982 as Lew Aronow in Yerevan ) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster of world class. He is a former world champion in chess and former world champion in blitz chess. From 4 October 2003 to 14 May 2004, he played for the German Chess Federation.
Life
Chess development
Aronjans father was a white Russian physicist ( Department of Laser Technology ), the mother worked as a specialist in explosive nature. He started to play with about nine years of chess. For a short time Lyudmila Finarewa was his coach in a pioneer home, then took over this task Melikset Khachiyan. In the summer of 1992 he took part in the U10 World Cup in Duisburg under the name of his father Aronow. In 1994 he was awarded Youth World Champion U12 in Szeged, before the later world-class players Étienne Bacrot, Ruslan Ponomariov, Francisco Vallejo Pons and Alexander Grishchuk, and subsequently received the title of FIDE FIDE Master. A year later he won in Paris Youth Rapid Chess World Championship U14, where he landed in 1994 in the U12 still in third place. In 1996 he received the title of International Master. 1997 Aronian won the Kasparov Cup, a major junior masters tournament in Moscow. The next year he won the European Youth Championships U20 in Yerevan for themselves. In 1999, he won the Championship in Yerevan, Armenia and was a member of the Armenian national team, which won the European Team Championship in Batumi. In May 2000, his FIDE awarded the grandmaster title.
Aronian 2002 Junior World Champion U20 was in Panaji (Goa). In 2003, he won the Chess960 Open in Mainz. Aronian, who lived temporarily in Germany, in 2004 won the German Internet Championship. In the FIDE World Championship in Tripoli in the same year he retired after successes against Magnus Carlsen and Qədir Huseynov in the third round against Pavel Smirnov from. In 2005 he won the Open of Gibraltar, together with Hikaru Nakamura and Boris Awruch, and a highly respected league in Stepanakert ( Nagorno-Karabakh ), inter alia Hikaru Nakamura and Vasyl Ivanchuk. At the European Championships in Warsaw in 2005, he won, by tag battles, bronze. Aronian won at the end of the played out in the knockout system FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk; he defeated Ruslan Ponomariov in the final of the Ukrainians 2-0 in rapid chess -off ( 1-1 after tournament games ).
Highlights
In 2006 he succeeded the previously significant (individual) success of his career: he won the Tradition Tournament of Linares (first half in Morelia held ) against Veselin Topalov and Teymur Rəcəbov after a victory over Péter Lékó he was succeeded in the last round. He also was in August 2006 at the Chess Classic in Mainz by its 5-3 victory against Peter Svidler World Champion in Chess960.
In June 2006, he won the Armenian national team's gold medal at the Chess Olympiad in Turin.
In January 2007, Aronian won together with the same number of points Vesselin Topalov and Radjabov Teymur the grandmaster tournament in Wijk aan Zee. His victory over Viswanathan Anand in the Tournament of Morelia / Linares was voted the best game of 2007.
In May 2007, he defeated the world champion Vladimir Kramnik in a rapid chess match in Yerevan 4-2 ( 3 wins, 1 loss, 2 draws ). In August 2007, he defended the Mainz Chess Classic Chess960 his world title against Viswanathan Anand in the first flash playoff.
With his success at the World Chess Cup 2005, Aronian at the same time qualified for the re-introduced by the FIDE Candidates Tournament (2007) for the World Cup, there four World Cup participants were two fights in knockout system with 16 players determined. In the first round Aronian defeated Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, chess talent after Tie ( 2, = 2, -2, Tie-Break: 4:2 ), in the second round he defeated Alexei Shirov ( 1, = 5, -0 ) and qualified by the fact for the world Cup 2007 tournament in Mexico, where he did not finally make it past the second to last place.
Along with Carlsen Aronian won in January 2008, the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee, among 14 participants with an Elo average of 2742 (Category 20 ) achieved both 8 points from 13 games. In March, he won the Melody Amber tournament in Nice, where he dominated the field with 2.5 points ahead in rapid chess and also in the blank chess score came on the shared first place. In August 2008, he won less than 14 participants, the second event of the FIDE Grand Prix 2008 /09 in Sochi, a tournament of Category 19 in 13 games, he scored 8.5 points. After being in April 2009 and the fourth tournament of the series in Nalchik won (8.5 points from 13 games) and in August 2009 the fifth tournament in Jermuk took second place with 8 points from 13 games, he secured clinched the overall victory. In November 2008 he won the Armenian team the gold medal at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden. On the top board, he scored 5.5 points from ten games ( 7 2 = -1).
In March 2009 he again won the overall title at the Melody Amber tournament. In the Chess Classic in Mainz he won in August 2009, the Grenkeleasing World Cup in rapid chess, but lost his Chess960 World Champion title at Hikaru Nakamura. The Grand Slam Final in Bilbao, he won in September 2009 with 4.5 points from six games, he came into office as a substitute for Veselin Topalov. In November 2010 he won the blitz world championship in Moscow. At the Candidates tournament in 2011 Aronian difference somewhat surprising already in the 1st round with 1.5-2.5 against Alexander Grishchuk from. In July 2011, he played for Armenia on top board at the World Team Championship and wore with his score of 5 points from eight games in the title. In January 2012, he won the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee with 9 points from 13 games ( 7 = 4 -2). In January 2014, he won the tournament again, with 8 points from 11 games ( 6 = 4 -1).
His current Elo rating in OTB chess is 2830 (as of March 2014), so that takes Aronian Rank 2 in the world ranking list. He is at No. 5 Chess960 World Ranking ( as at 4 July 2011) with a WNCA -IPS (Individual Player Strength of the World New Chess Association ) of 2779th
German Chess Bundesliga
From 2004 to the end of the 2007/2008 season he played in the chess Bundesliga for SC Kreuzberg. He was bound by the chess friends Berlin for the 2011/12 season. Curiously, he only played on board 2, because his student Hrant Melkumjan should collect one experience against tough opponents as possible on board. He took it 2.5 points from three games. For the 2012/13 season, he is registered with the reigning German champion OSG Baden -Baden.
Style
Aronian refers to himself jokingly as "cheap tactician " and says he aspire above all " weird" ( engl. crooked ), unclear positions. He also described his opening preparation as weakness. In general, it is considered very strong in the final.
As White he plays closed openings ( both 1.d4 and 1.c4 with ); with black and he replies to 1.e4 e5 with (mostly with the transition to the closed Spaniards ). Against closed openings he plays with black a large number of different systems, such as a rejected Queen's Gambit, Slav, Queen's Indian and Nimzo - Indian.
Aronjans style is exemplary shown in the " game of the year 2007", in which he defeated the then World Champion Anand.