Levon Aronyan Is The Glorious Winner Of The 17th Amber Blindfold And Rapid Tournament
ArmRadio.am
28.03.2008
Levon Aronyan is the glorious winner of the 17th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament. The 25-year-old Armenian already secured first place in the rapid section and overall tournament victory in the 10th round. In the last round he drew both his games against Peter Leko to finish on 14½ points.
The blindfold competition ended in a four-way tie for first. Aronian, Kramnik, Morozevich and Topalov all scored 6½ points from 11 games.
In the overall standings four players finished in second place. According to the Sonneborn-Berger tiebreak Vladimir Kramnik won second prize, while Peter Leko took third prize. The tiebreak decided on the trophies, the prize-money for second place Kramnik and Leko shared with Veselin Topalov and Magnus Carlsen.
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