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Needing a win to have an outside chance of taking the title, Aronian was always scrambling for equality against Wang Hao. [Event "Norway Chess Tournament"] [Site "Sandnes NOR"] [Date "2013.05.15"] [EventDate "2013.05.08"] [Round "7"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [White "Wang Hao"] [Black "Levon Aronian"] [ECO "A07"] [WhiteElo "2743"] [BlackElo "2813"] [PlyCount "73"] 1. Nf3 d5 [...] Hammer goes into a forcing line but quickly came up short against Aronian, possibly exposing holes in his preparation. [Event "Norway Chess Tournament"] [Site "Sandnes NOR"] [Date "2013.05.14"] [EventDate "2013.05.08"] [Round "6"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Levon Aronian"] [Black "Jon Ludvig Hammer"] [ECO "D85"] [WhiteElo "2813"] [BlackElo "2608"] [PlyCount "47"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. [...] A slow Slav and a slow game with two players both struggling for form. [Event "Norway Chess Tournament"] [Site "Sandnes NOR"] [Date "2013.05.13"] [EventDate "2013.05.08"] [Round "5"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [White "T Radjabov"] [Black "L Aronian"] [ECO "D12"] [WhiteElo "2745"] [BlackElo "2813"] [PlyCount "62"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. [...] Closely following the Queen’s Indian line played in Karjakin’s round 2 encounter with Hammer, Aronian found some improvements. However, he then overplayed his hand, perhaps conscious of the need to defeat Karjakin who was already a full point ahead. 1 of 2: 2 of 2: [Event "Norway Chess Tournament"] [Site "0:23:33-0:16:33"] [Date "2013.05.12"] [...] Svidler and Aronian played a solid reverse dragon, with little advantage for either player. [Event "Norway Chess Tournament"] [Site "Sandnes NOR"] [Date "2013.05.10"] [EventDate "2013.05.08"] [Round "3"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [White "Peter Svidler"] [Black "Levon Aronian"] [ECO "A29"] [WhiteElo "2769"] [BlackElo "2813"] [PlyCount "61"] 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 [...] A 70-move epic with the world number two prevailing over the US number one. [Event "Norway Chess Tournament"] [Site "Sandnes NOR"] [Date "2013.05.09"] [EventDate "2013.05.08"] [Round "2"] [Result "1-0"] [White "L Aronian"] [Black "Hi Nakamura"] [ECO "D10"] [WhiteElo "2813"] [BlackElo "2775"] [PlyCount "140"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. Bf4 [...] With 7. c4 Anand lead to the game to unexplored territories, but failed to gain any advantage. [Event "Norway Chess Tournament"] [Site "Sandnes NOR"] [Date "2013.05.08"] [EventDate "2013.05.08"] [Round "1"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [White "V Anand"] [Black "L Aronian"] [ECO "C84"] [WhiteElo "2783"] [BlackElo "2813"] [PlyCount "66"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 [...] A flaying start for the Chinese grandmaster Ding Liren in round one of the 2013 Alekhine Memorial against world number two Levon Aronian. [Event "Alekhine Memorial"] [Site "Paris/St Petersburg FRA/RUS"] [Date "2013.04.21"] [EventDate "2013.04.21"] [Round "1"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Ding Liren"] [Black "Levon Aronian"] [ECO "D45"] [WhiteElo "2707"] [BlackElo "2809"] [PlyCount "91"] 1. d4 [...] Radjabov’s horror tournament ended in defeat to Aronian, who would also have been bitterly disappointed to be out of contention so soon in the 2013 Candidates, in a complicated game. 1 of 3: 2 of 3: 3 of 3: [Event "World Championship Candidates"] [Site "London ENG"] [Date "2013.04.01"] [EventDate "2013.03.15"] [Round "14"] [...] Even though both players were out of contention by this stage, Grischuk and Aronian was a hard-fought Slav before finally ening in a draw. 1 of 2: 2 of 2: [Event "World Championship Candidates"] [Site "London ENG"] [Date "2013.03.31"] [EventDate "2013.03.15"] [Round "13"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [White "A Grischuk"] [Black "L Aronian"] [ECO "D11"] [...] |
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