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From the FIDE: Aronian, Levon FIDE Chess Player Personal Page - Chess Player Information. 13300474, Aronian, Levon, M. Federation, Armenia. FIDE title, Grand Master. Current rating: 2750. B-Year, 1982 ...
Levon Aronian was born on 6 October 1982 in Yerevan, Armenia. Aronian is a still very young Leading Armenian chess Grand Master. Levon Aronian won the 1994 World Youth Chess Championship (under-12) in Szeged with 8/9, ahead of future luminaries Etienne Bacrot, Ruslan Ponomariov, Francisco Vallejo Pons and Alexander Grischuk. In 2002 he became World Junior Champion, scoring 10/13 and finishing ahead of Luke McShane, Surya Ganguly, Artyom Timofeev, Bu Xiangzhi and others. In 2004 he progressed to the third round of the 2004 FIDE World Championship before being knocked out by Pavel Smirnov.

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Levon Aronian became part of the international elite in 2005, shooting up to fifth place in the world. In 2005 he was part of a five-way tie for first place at the Gibtele.com Masters in Gibraltar with Zahar Efimenko, Kiril Georgiev, Alexei Shirov and Emil Sutovsky. He was the sole winner of the Karabakh 2005 International "A" Tournament. In the Russian Team Championship, he scored +5 =3 -0 with an Elo performance rating of around 2850. In December Aronian beat Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in the final round to win the World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. In March 2006 Levon Aronian took first place at the annual Linares chess tournament, half a point ahead of Teimour Radjabov and FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov. In 2006 he also tied for first in the Tal Memorial. In January 2007 Aronian shared first place at the category 19 Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee along with Veselin Topalov and Radjabov. In May 2007 he defeated World Champion Vladimir Kramnik 4-2 in a rapid chess match. Aronian won also the Karen Asrian Memorial rapid chess tournament in Yerevan in June 2008. He finished 8.5/14 ahead of Peter Leko.

Ivanchuk 2006 (twice in April and July) Levon Aronian reached 3th in the FIDE rating list, but not still win the World Chess Championship. Since July 2005 Aronian is among the 12th better chess players in the world, with small fluctuations; his world ranking has ranged from 12th to 3rd. With a Rating of 2750, in the FIDE-ratings list of January 2009, Aronian is currently number 11 in the world and the 6th best ranked player taking part in the Corus Chess 2009.

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