Chess festival: Levon Aronyan lacks half point to equal with leaders

 Armenian GM Levon Aronian defeated Alexander Grishchuk in the 7th round of Wijk aan Zee festival, and ended in draw with V. Anand in the 8th round. Currently Armenian GM has 5 points and shares 3rd-6th horizontals with Magnus Carlsen, Lagrave and Vladimir Kramnik. The leaders of the festival H. Nakamura and V. Anand scored 5,5 points.
Gabriel Sargsyan, who plays in the group “B”, scored 1,5 points . The leader of the group “B” is W. So.