{"id":142323,"date":"2011-11-17T12:23:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T08:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=142323"},"modified":"2011-11-17T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T08:24:33","slug":"levon-aronians-first-game-in-moscow-chess-tournament-ends-in-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/17\/levon-aronians-first-game-in-moscow-chess-tournament-ends-in-draw.html","title":{"rendered":"Levon Aronian&#8217;s First Game in Moscow Chess Tournament Ends in Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 Mikhail Tal Memorial chess tournament kicked off on Nov. 16 with an unprecedented line-up of participants.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 10 Grossmeisters (Grandmasters) is Armenian national Levon Aronian (pictured), whose first game ended in a draw. Aronian was playing white against Norwegian GM Magnus Carlsen.<\/p>\n<p>Games that also ended in a draw yesterday included Viswanathan Anand (India) vs. Sergey Karjakin (Russia) and Hikaru Nakamura (US) vs. Boris Gelfand (Israel).<\/p>\n<p>There were two good games in the first round: Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) playing white beat Peter Svidler (Russia), while Jan Nepomnyashchiy playing black beat Vladimir Kramnik (both representing Russia).<\/p>\n<p>The Mikhail Tal Memorial is played in Moscow each year to honor the memory of former World Champion Mikhail Tal who died in 1992.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 Mikhail Tal Memorial chess tournament kicked off on Nov. 16 with an unprecedented line-up of participants.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10641,15508,18353],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}