Armenia’s Aronian second in FIDE list

14:30   1 August, 2012

Armenian GM Levon Aronian is ranked the second in a new FIDE ranking list as of August 1, 2012.

Top ten has not undergone any changes. Aronian is preceded by Norway’s Magnus Carlsen.  

1 Magnus Carlsen (Norway)

2 Levon Aronian (Armenia)

3 Vladimit Kramnik (Russia)

4 Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan)

5 Sergey Karjakin (Russia)

6 Anand Viswanathan (India)

7 Hikaru Nakamura (US)

8 Fabiano Caruana (Italy)

9 Alexander Morozvich (Russia)

10 Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine)

Aronian was one of the participants of  World Chess Championship 2012 but was knocked out in the first round.

 



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