Levon Aronian

Levon Aronian is a player of failures Arménie N, born the October 6th 1982.

With the classification FIDE of October 2007, it has a ELO of 2741, making of him the 9th world player, and number 1 Armenian.

Progression towards Signal 10

In 1994, he becomes World champion of less than 12 years with Szeged with 8 points out of 9 possible, in front of other super-GMIs futures, like Etienne Bacrot, Ruslan Ponomariov, Francisco Vallejo Pons and Alexander Grischuk.

In 2002, he becomes World champion junior with 10/13.

In 2003, Aronian gained the tournament of random failures Fischer with Mainz; this qualifies it for the match of Championship of the World of this alternative of the set of failures, match which it loses the following year against Peter Svidler, on the score of 4.5-3.5.

In 2004, it reaches the 3rd turn of the Championship of World FIDE.

But its progression accelerates as from 2005: it shares the first place of the Gibtele.com tournament in Gibraltar, then gains the World cup (competition by direct elimination) with Khanty-Mansiysk, in Russia, by beating Ruslan Ponomariov finally thanks to one decides between in fast parts, thus qualifying for the matches candidates with the championship of the world 2007. In 2005, it carries out a performance of: 2850 with the championship of Russia by teams (+5=3-0).

In March 2006, it gains the Tournoi of Linares, the most prestigious tournament of the world, half-time in front of Teimour Radjabov and World champion FIDE Veselin Topalov. It contributes also largely to the victory of the Armenian team at the time of the Olympiade of failures of 2006.

As from this moment, Levon Aronian settles durably in the world elite of super-GMI and is recognized as being one of the most frightening players of failures of his time. Its contemporaries really recognize it and do not dare any more to qualify its successes of transitory or even the lucky one.

In 2007, it gains the prestigious tournament of Wijk aan Zee, in company of Veselin Topalov and Teimour Radjabov. It beats then the world champion Vladimir Kramnik in a match of 6 fast parts then is qualified for the championship of the world by successively beating at the time of the matches candidates the young Norwegian wonder Magnus Carlsen (with decide between) and Alexei Shirov.

In September 2007, with the Championship of the World disputed in the form of tournament in two rounds with Mexico City, it finishes to disappointing 6 - 7th place on 8 participants (+2 =8 -4).

A part

At the time of the Olympiad of failures 2006 with Turin, Levon Aronian was distinguished particularly by beating Ivan Sokolov (: 2676), a player of the world signal, with the blacks while reflecting less than eleven minutes for all the part. Moreover, its team which represented Arménie gained this Olympiad. This anecdote shows also the high degree of preparation of this player who, since several months, défraie the chronicle for its resounding exploits.
I. Sokolov-Aronian, Olympiad of failures, Turin 2006

1.d4 Cf6 2.c4 e6 3.Cc3 Fb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Fg5 c5!? 7.dxc5 h6 8.Fh4 g5 9.Fg3 Ce4 10.Fxb8!?
(10.e3; 10.Be5)
10. … Qf6!
(10… Txb8?? 11.Qa4+ +)
11.Fg3 Cxc3 12.a3 Ff5! 13.Qd2 Fa5 14.b4? Ce4 15.Qc1
(see diagram)
15. … Tc8!! 16.Ta2?! Txc5 17.Qa1 Qc6!
threat chechmate of the corridor
18.Qe5+ Kd8 19.Qxh8+ Kd7 0-1

si 20.e3, Tc1+ 21.Ke2 Fg4+! and 22… Qc4# (based on the analyzes of A.J. Goldsby)

Classification

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