Levon Aronian tops standings in Shanghai

Levon Aronian tops the standings of the Grand Slam Final Chess Masters held in Shanghai. Today Armenian Grandmaster playing black defeated Chinese Wang Hao in his opening game, while Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) drew with Alexey Shirov (Spain). Tomorrow Aronian will face Shirov. You can follow the games on-line on NEWS.am by pressing the link.

The top two qualified in Shanghai will play with Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand in Bilbao (October 9-15).

1^st round - 3/9/2010

Wang Hao - Levon Aronian 0-1

Vladimir Kramnik - Alexey Shirov 1/5-1/5

2^nd round - 4/9/2010

Levon Aronian - Alexey Shirov

Wang Hao - Vladimir Kramnik

3^rd round - 5/10/2010

Vladimir Kramnik - Levon Aronian

Alexey Shirov - Wang Hao

4^th round - 6/9/2010

Levon Aronian - Wang Hao

Alexey Shirov - Vladimir Kramnik

5^th round- 7/9/2010

Levon Aronian- Vladimir Kramnik

Wang Hao - Alexey Shirov

6^th round - 8/10/2010

Alexey Shirov - Levon Aronian

Vladimir Kramnik - Wang Hao