| 28.07.2009 - Yesterday the usual press conference marked the beginning of the Chess Classic Mainz, the world’s biggest Rapid Chess Festival. And after meeting the journalists Levon Aronian showed his skills in a 40 board simul.
The Chess Classic 2009, in which the world’s best players from Tuesday to Sunday will measure their skills in eight events, began Monday, 27th July, 2 pm with the press conference. Highlights of the Chess Classic are the two World Championships: From Tuesday to Thursday Levon Aronian, the world’s number four, will defend his title in Chess960 – the chess variant proposed by the late Bobby Fischer, in which the starting position of the pieces is randomly determined. Aronian’s rivals are Hikaru Nakamura, Viktor Bologan and Sergei Movsesian. From Friday to Sunday Vishy Anand, the reigning World Champion and 11-times winner of the Chess Classic, has to keep his own in the GRENKELEASING Rapid World Championship against Levon Aronian, Arkadi Naiditsch and Ian Nepomniachtchi.
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