March 12-25, 2010 Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian will take part in the 19th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament in Nice, France. The participants will play a blindfold and rapid chess games.

Aronian's opponents will be Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Gelfand, Vugar Gashimov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Peter Svidler, Ruslan Ponomarjov, Alexander Morozevich, Sergey Karjakin, Leinier Dominges Perez and Jan Smeets.

Levon Aronian is the winner of Amber 2009.

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