{"id":60504,"date":"2011-01-31T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T06:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=60504"},"modified":"2011-01-31T10:52:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T06:52:58","slug":"aronian-didnt-lose-a-single-game-in-tata-steel-chess-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/31\/aronian-didnt-lose-a-single-game-in-tata-steel-chess-tournament.html","title":{"rendered":"Aronian Didn&#8217;t Lose a Single Game in Tata Steel Chess Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norway\u2019s Magnus Carlsen settled for a draw after a mere 19 moves with black from a Chigorin against Russia\u2019s Alexander Grishuk (see picture) to finish the tournament in third place.<\/p>\n<p>Hikaru Nakamura of the United States took the 10,000-euro first prize in the 73rd Tata Steel Tournament after an exciting scramble for the top spot in the final round of the annual Wijk-aan-Zee chess spectacular Sunday. World champion Viswanathan Anand of India finished second, half a point behind Nakamura, to earn 7,000 euros.<\/p>\n<p>Norway\u2019s Magnus Carlsen settled for a draw after a mere 19 moves with black from a Chigorin against Russia\u2019s Alexander Grishuk to finish the tournament in third place. Levon Aronian of Armenia fought Dutch national champion Jan Smeets to a draw over 61 moves from a semi Slav to come alongside the Norwegian. They share the 6,000-euro combined third and fourth prize.<\/p>\n<p>Though Aronian didn&#8217;t win the coveted prize, it can be said this tournament was a victory for him: the Armenian Grandmaster won 3 games in 13 rounds and settled for a draw in the remaining 10. Aronian became one of only two chess players in the Wijk-aan-Zee tournament who didn&#8217;t lose any of the games he played (the other player was Anand).<\/p>\n<p>In Group B, Armenian Grandmaster Gabriel Sargissian concluded the tournament with 7.5 points, sharing the 4th to 6th places with Le Quang Liem of Vietnam and Wesley So of the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Third place in Group B was Ukraine&#8217;s Zahar Efimenko (8 points) and sharing the 1st and 2nd places were England&#8217;s Luke McShane and David Navara of the Czech Republic, both with 8.5 points.<\/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 Aronian fought Dutch national champion Jan Smeets to a draw over 61 moves from a semi Slav to&#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":60441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14767,14766,15508,15790,20298],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60504"}],"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=60504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}