{"id":92984,"date":"2011-05-06T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T05:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=92984"},"modified":"2011-05-06T10:38:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T05:38:25","slug":"levon-aronian-begins-candidates-matches-by-agreeing-to-a-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/06\/levon-aronian-begins-candidates-matches-by-agreeing-to-a-draw.html","title":{"rendered":"Levon Aronian Begins Candidates Matches by Agreeing to a Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian GM Levon Aronian kicked off the 2011 Candidates Matches, part of the World Chess Championship cycle, by agreeing to a draw. The chess tournament launched on May 5 in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, with the participation of 8 chess players. In the quarter final, Aronian is playing against Russia&#8217;s Alexander Grischuk. Aronian was playing white and had the advantage with a knight quite quickly; however, in the last game, Grischuk succeeded evening out the positions and on move 70, settled for a draw.<\/p>\n<p>Note, the grandmasters will play 4 games and in case of a draw, there will be a tie-breaker.<\/p>\n<p>The next match is to take place today with Aronian playing black.<\/p>\n<p>The three other games in yesterday&#8217;s match were also played: Gata Kamsky (US) and Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) and Boris Gelfand (Israel), and Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan) and Vladimir Kramnik (Russia).<\/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 GM Levon Aronian kicked off the 2011 Candidates Matches, part of the World Chess Championship cycle&#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":79184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26105,15508,26106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92984"}],"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=92984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}