Chess: Aronian suffers first defeat at Tal Memorial

Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian on Sunday lost to a much lower ranked British player, Luke McShane, in Round 3 of the continuing Mikhail Tal Memorial tournament in Moscow, Russia.

The defeat cast the Armenian to the middle of the 10-man standings with 1 ½ points after three days of play.

In the first two rounds of the prestigious tournament Aronian first beat Hikaru Nakamura from the United States and then tied with Russian Evgeny Tomashevsky.

In the next round of the Tal Memorial scheduled for Tuesday Aronian is due to play against Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, who is currently in third place with 2 points, half a point behind the joint leaders Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan) and Alexander Morozevich (Russia).  Read more... (223 words)

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