On March 12, Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian will participate in the 20th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament to be held in Monte-Carlo, Monaco.

In this final jubilee edition the following grandmasters will take part: Viswanathan Anand (India), Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Levon Aronian (Armenia), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Alexander Grischuk (Russia), Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Sergey Karjakin (Russia), Boris Gelfand (Israel), Hikaru Nakamura (United States), Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan) and Anish Giri (The Netherlands). The total prize-fund is € 227,000.

The first round will take place at 5:30 p.m. Yerevan time.

Anand-Topalov

Nakamura-Carlsen

Grischuk-Kramnik

Karjakin-Gelfand

Ivanchuk-Gashimov

Aronian-Giri