BILBAO, SEPTEMBER 8, NOYAN TAPAN. First games of the second stage are scheduled for September 8 at the Grand Slam Chess Tournament in Bilbao, Spain. Armenian chess player Levon Aronian beat Vasily Ivanchuk of Ukraine in the 4th round and drew with Temur Rajabov of Azerbaijan in the 5th round. Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) with 9 points is in lead of the points table. Magnus Carlsen (Norway) has 8 points, Levon Aronian - 6 points, while Vasily Ivanchuk, Viswanathan Anand (India) and Temur Rajabov have 4 points each. L. Aronian plays against M. Carlsen in the 6th round on September 8.

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