Candidates Tournament: Aronyan shared a point in a match lasted 7 hours

23:15 - 27 Mar, 2016

Armenia chess team member Levon Aronyan played draw with Sergey Karjakin in a match lasted 7 hours.

In the penultimate round of the Chess Candidates tournament Aronyan competed against one of the front runners of the standings, Sergey Karjakin. The match lasted 7 hours and was comprised of 101 moves.
Now Aronyan has 6, 5 points and places 4th. In the last round Aronyan’s opponent will be Hikaru Nakamura.


Photo from the tournament’s official website
ANOC press service

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