{"id":48624,"date":"2010-11-08T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/11\/08\/aronian-comes-out-on-top-in-mikhail-tal-chess-tournament\/"},"modified":"2010-11-08T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T09:55:00","slug":"aronian-comes-out-on-top-in-mikhail-tal-chess-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/11\/08\/aronian-comes-out-on-top-in-mikhail-tal-chess-tournament.html","title":{"rendered":"Aronian Comes Out on Top in Mikhail Tal Chess Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian continues his winning streak at the 5th Mikhail Tal Memorial chess tournament. 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<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">In a tournament with the world&#8217;s top players, Aronian has already secured 2 victories in 3 rounds. His latest victory \u2014 playing white, he beat Boris Gelfand (Israel) yesterday. Aronian forced his opponent to surrender at the 41st move in the game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Now, the Armenian Grandmaster, with 2.5 points, is leading the pack. Alexander Grishchuk (Russia), Sergey Karyakin (Russia), Shahriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan), Wang Hao (China), and Hikaru Nakamura (US) have 2 points each.\u00a0<\/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>Armenian Grandmaster Levon&#8230;<!-- 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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[14767,10641,15508,15790,18353],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48624"}],"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=48624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}