Leonard Barden on Chess

December 24, 2005
The Guardian
By Leonard Barden

Armenia's Levon Aronian, 23, won the $1.5m (£850,000) World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Siberia, last weekend when he outplayed Ukraine's Ruslan Ponomariov 3-1 in the final. [...].
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Carlsen, at 15 the youngest ever candidate, has a large public following in Norway. A Norwegian TV channel's website covered his World Cup games move by move and attracted up to 250,000 hits, with a peak for the game shown here in which the prodigy defeated a 2670-rated Russian GM and thereby broke Bobby Fischer's candidates age record.

Norway wants to host the six-game Carlsen v Aronian series. It will be hard for the teen since the laid-back Aronian, a self-confessed "cheap tactician", was cool about his own play in Siberia and believes he will improve further: "I'm not satisfied with my performance, I played rather badly, and have some vacancies in my chess knowledge".
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