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Aronian 
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Levon Aronian
Number of games in database: 1,054
Years covered: 1993 to 2008
Current FIDE rating: 2763
Overall record: +374 -141 =428 (62.4%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      111 exhibition games, blitz games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (58) 
    B23 B90 B50 B40 B34
 Slav (42) 
    D15 D11 D17 D12 D10
 Queen's Pawn Game (39) 
    D01 A41 E00 D00 A45
 King's Indian (36) 
    E60 E63 E62 E61 E67
 King's Indian Attack (35) 
    A07 A08
 Nimzo Indian (29) 
    E46 E32 E21 E45 E20
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (116) 
    C88 C67 C89 C84 C87
 Sicilian (96) 
    B22 B90 B70 B51 B76
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (73) 
    C88 C89 C84 C87 C90
 Grunfeld (44) 
    D85 D91 D76 D77 D86
 Queen's Gambit Declined (38) 
    D37 D38 D39 D31
 Nimzo Indian (34) 
    E38 E32 E35 E21 E46
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Aronian vs Anand, 2007 1-0
   I Sokolov vs Aronian, 2006 0-1
   Shirov vs Aronian, 2006 0-1
   Aronian vs V Popov, 2005 1-0
   Carlsen vs Aronian, 2007 0-1
   Anand vs Aronian, 2008 0-1
   Aronian vs Morozevich, 2006 1-0
   Bacrot vs Aronian, 2006 0-1
   Shabalov vs Aronian, 2004 0-1
   Aronian vs Navara, 2006 1-0

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Battles at the Top: 2005-2007 by Anatoly21
   Levon Aronian Great Games by Bufon
   Carlsen in world championships:2005-07 by alexmagnus
   [Candidate Matches 2007]---Aronian-Carlsen by chessmoron
   1) d4 by Delfinik
   Aronian!! by Timex
   Armenian Grandmaster's Magic by argishti
   [Candidate Matches 2007]--Aronian-Shirov by chessmoron
   AdrianP's Bookmarked Games (2008) by AdrianP

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LEVON ARONIAN
(born Oct-06-1982) Armenia

[what is this?]
Levon Aronian was born October 6, 1982. He learned to play chess when he was nine years old and, in 1994, he won the World Under-12 Championship ahead of future top-ten players Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Grischuk, and Etienne Bacrot. He became a grandmaster in 2001 and the World Junior Champion in 2002, scoring 10/13 in the finals.

Aronian took part in the FIDE World Championship (2004) in Tripoli, eliminating Magnus Carlsen and Gadir Guseinov before losing his third-round match with Pavel Smirnov. 2005 proved to Aronian's most successful year thus far--it saw him gain over 50 FIDE rating points to claim a spot in the top 10 on the April list. He was joint first at the Gibraltar Masters (2005) and clear first at the Karabakh International (2005). He capped the year by winning the FIDE World Cup (2005) in December, without loss of a single game.

Aronian went on to even greater successes in 2006. After achieving a modest result in Corus Wijk aan Zee (2006), he won in the last round of Linares (2006) to take first place by half a point ahead of Teimour Radjabov and Veselin Topalov. In August he captured the Chess960 World Championship by beating Peter Svidler 5-3 in an eight-game match in Mainz. Toward the end of the year he shared first place in the Tal Memorial (2006), and then started off 2007 with a joint victory at Corus (2007). Currently, he is in fifth place on the FIDE world rating list, and has been ranked as high as third (in April and July of 2006). In 2007 he qualified for a World Championship final for the first time, defeating Carlsen and Alexey Shirov in two Candidates' matches to earn a spot in the eight-player FIDE World Championship Tournament (2007) in Mexico City. He was unable to replicate some of his earlier tournament successes there and ended up in joint sixth place, where Viswanathan Anand became the World Chess Champion. The year 2008 started with a great success at Corus (2008) where he shared first place with Magnus Carlsen.


 page 1 of 43; games 1-25 of 1,055  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. A Horvath vs Aronian 1-056 1993 Wch U12B78 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 10.castle long
2. Aronian vs S Munizaba 1-038 1993 Wch U12B23 Sicilian, Closed
3. Aronian vs D Neves 0-158 1993 Wch U12D01 Richter-Veresov Attack
4. E Shaposhnikov vs Aronian 1-060 1993 Wch U12B55 Sicilian, Prins Variation, Venice Attack
5. A Boldyrev vs Aronian  ½-½45 1993 Wch U12B20 Sicilian
6. Aronian vs A Zabojlovich 1-034 1993 Wch U12B23 Sicilian, Closed
7. Aronian vs I Khamrakulova 1-034 1993 Wch U12D01 Richter-Veresov Attack
8. Nur Nawrose vs Aronian  0-134 1993 Wch U12B70 Sicilian, Dragon Variation
9. Aronian vs M Sitnik 1-041 1993 Ch World (cadets) (under 12)C55 Two Knights Defense
10. Ngo Ngoc Quang vs Aronian  0-132 1993 Wch U12E60 King's Indian Defense
11. D Kozlenkov vs Aronian  1-042 1993 Wch U12C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense
12. Aronian vs C Ovezov  1-025 1994 Wch U12C41 Philidor Defense
13. Aronian vs A Hrusciov 1-024 1994 EU-ch U12D01 Richter-Veresov Attack
14. Valentin Raceanu vs Aronian  0-143 1994 EU-ch U12D74 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O
15. Aronian vs O Kondarevich  1-048 1994 EUch U12 DisneyC16 French, Winawer
16. H Geanta vs Aronian  1-042 1994 Wch U12C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense
17. Y Kobylkin vs Aronian  0-149 1994 EU-ch U12D86 Grunfeld, Exchange
18. Bacrot vs Aronian 0-140 1994 WYFWC Szeged B12(8)B22 Sicilian, Alapin
19. Aronian vs D Bunzmann  1-025 1994 Wch U12B23 Sicilian, Closed
20. G Szabo vs Aronian  0-129 1994 EU-ch U12B22 Sicilian, Alapin
21. C Mamedov vs Aronian 0-145 1994 EUch U12 DisneyB78 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 10.castle long
22. Aronian vs J Mont-Reynaud  1-052 1994 Wch U12D01 Richter-Veresov Attack
23. Aronian vs D Mastrovasilis 0-116 1994 EU-ch U12B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen
24. Ponomariov vs Aronian 0-155 1994 Wch U12B53 Sicilian
25. Aronian vs A Bokros  1-037 1994 Wch U12D01 Richter-Veresov Attack
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Mar-30-08   M.D. Wilson: I'm Australian. Is Aronian in Australia? Haven't heard about it. Well done, Levon! WC in the making?
Mar-30-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  Davolni: <ljh>
No, I know he doesn't play chess there, who was he going to play with anyways??? ;:)))

nobody in his caliber;)

If he is in Australia, then he is with Arianne. So he very well may be. But I was just wondering how true it is. I know he travels to Australia a lot.

So good luck to him, wherever he is!!!

Mar-30-08   ljh: of course he is WC soon!
Mar-30-08   Augalv: <ljh: of course he is WC soon!>

no doubt!

Mar-30-08   DUS: <But some of our great philosophers here in CG found it very hard to answer my question.....>

<Davolni> I think because great philosophers aren't interested in money... Let us hope an ordinary guy will answer that question. Still it is clear Levon got the biggest prize, and let us wish him to get many more.

Mar-30-08   DUS: <ljh> Congrats for your first 3 posings in CG all about Australian subject.

I think GM may very well be in Brasil, Rio de Janeiro... Playing with Mecking, Pele, and other local players.

Apr-02-08   diabloprancer: Levon, you are my hero.
Apr-02-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  Resignation Trap: Here's a new interview with Aronian (in Russian): http://www.chesspro.ru/_events/2008... .
Apr-02-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  Davolni: <Resignation Trap> as always!!!

Thanks for the link!!!

An interesting interview with Levon.!!!

Apr-02-08   slomarko: can somebody please translate the part about computers?
Apr-04-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  notyetagm: Rumor has it that Aronian has been playing on ICC under the handle <AndrinoGiardino>. He has a pretty hefty 3500(!) blitz rating so it could be true.

http://www.chessclub.com/finger/And...

Apr-04-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  Strongest Force: Notyetagm Aronian is probably at least as good as anyone in blitz. Furthermore, i know from personal experience that he is an excellent trash talker. :)
Apr-04-08   Jim Bartle: If Aronian directed trash talk my way, I'd just mention that multi-colored shirt from his earlier photo at the top of the page. Should calm him down...
Apr-05-08   slomarko: <Jim Bartle: If Aronian directed trash talk my way, I'd just mention that multi-colored shirt from his earlier photo at the top of the page. Should calm him down...> for a second i thought you are gonna say you are gonna do a Gormally.
Apr-05-08   Jim Bartle: Had to look that one up. Pretty funny...
Apr-05-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  notyetagm: <DUS: ... I think during 17th Amber Blindfold tournament Levon was improving his blindfold chess from round to round, playing such chess better and better. As a result he won Anand and Morozevich in blindfold games. I think from now on Levon will be considered as one of the best players also in blindfold game.>

Yes, Aronian beat Morozevich and drew Kramnik in the blindfold games, a tremendous result.

If Aronian can repeat this result next year, then he really will have proven himself to be as good a blindfold player as Kramnik and Morozevich.

Apr-27-08   ljh: aronian can win fide grandprix to challenge wc
May-03-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  notyetagm: Aronian vs Anand, 2007

From <Chess Today 2734>, page 2:

<<Game of the Year 2007 by GM Mikhail Golubev

Maxim Notkin's project Game of Year
is now hosted at ChessPro.ru. The
opinions of the 36 experts (mainly
GMs, including Grischuk, Rublevsky,
Jakovenko, Sakaev, Sutovsky,
Shulman, Motylev, Kosteniuk and
many others) varied a lot but
nevertheless there was a clear winner:
Levon Aronian's achievement in the
game versus Vishy Anand from the
Morelia/Linares event. White's Bd7!,
ignoring the hanging Black e7 knight,
was the key move of that game. Below
is a list of the top ten games of the
year 2007.

1 Aronian-Anand 1-0 (199 points)
2 Kramnik-Morozevich 1-0 (138
points)
3 Morozevich-Sakaev 1-0 (135 points)
4 Cheparinov-Navara 0-1 (116 points)
5 Morozevich-Ivanchuk 0-1 (104
points)
6 Sargissian-Lupulescu 1-0 (99 points)
7 Shirov-Radjabov 0-1 (97 points)
8 Morozevich-Akopian 1-0 (94
points)
9 Lysyj-Ehlvest 1-0 (80 points)
10 Grischuk-Svidler ½-½- (76 points)

I was one of 36 the voters, and in my personal list only three of these games were included: Aronian-Anand as #4, Shirov-Radjabov as #1 and Morozevich-Akopian as #8. But it is hard to argue with a collective mind. Detailed results in Russian can be found at ChessPro.ru.>>

May-06-08   arsen387: great to know that Aronian's spectacular win over Anand was voted the best game of year 2007! A deserved prize for such an outstanding effort. Congratulations to Aronian! <notyetagm> thanks for information.
May-06-08   DUS: <notyetagm> thans for your very interesting posting.
May-10-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  Cactus: I never knew Aronian was a fellow dragoneer, but it's actually his most common move in this position. Repertoire Explorer: Levon Aronian (black)
May-11-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  Red October: <Cactus> yes, but he has not played that since 2002, he seems to prefer defending against the Ruy Lopez these days it seems
May-14-08   haik: Levon jan, te kardum es ajs toxery, Sofiajum xaxerid mej husahatutjun em nkatum. Erbemn erb uzum es anel anhnariny hajtnvum es nman iravichaki araj. kartsum em ajs pahin shat karevor e charhamarel mnacats xaxery. kaskats chunem, vor mnacats xaxeric shaterum haxtelu es. Best of luck.
May-16-08   DUS: Apres <haik> jan. Ankax ays mrtsashari ardyunkits, es el vstah em vor Levone sharunakelu e ir paylun xaghe. Ays nerka mrtsasharum kanonnere tarorinak en.
May-16-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  SetNoEscapeOn: <arsen387: great to know that Aronian's spectacular win over Anand was voted the best game of year 2007! A deserved prize for such an outstanding effort. Congratulations to Aronian! <notyetagm> thanks for information.>

It was very, very well deserved (I'm just assuming the game chosen was Vishy's loss in Linares 2007). Bd7!! truly a move of incredible calculation and imagination...

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