Norway Chess 2014: Aronian shares 4th-6th spots

Round 3 came to a close at the chess super tournament being held in Stavanger, Norway.  

Grandmaster GM Fabiano Caruana (Italy) is the current leader of the event. Armenian Grandmaster (GM) Levon Aronian—who is second in the World Chess Federation (FIDE) rankings and who plays first board for the three-time World Chess Olympiad champions and the previous World Team Chess champions Armenia—, on the other hand, shares 4th-6th spots.   

The current standings are as follows: 

Rk. Name               Point 

1. Caruana, Fabiano    2.5 

2. Grischuk, Alexander 2 

3. Kramnik, Vladimir   2

 4. Carlsen, Magnus     1.5 

5. Aronian, Levon      1.5 

6. Agdestein, Simen    1.5 

7. Svidler, Peter      1 

8. Giri, Anish         1 

9. Karjakin, Sergey    1

10. Topalov, Veselin    1

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