ELISTA, JUNE 6, NOYAN TAPAN. First tour of pretenders for World Chess Championship finished on June 3 in the town of Elista, Kalmykia. Levon Aronian-Magnus Karlsen tournament finished in a draw, with the score of 3 to 3, then, according to contest rules, they played speed chess consisting of 4 games. A draw, 2 - 2, was again registered. Two swift games determined the winner. Levon Aronian won with the score of 2 to 0 and passed to the second tour. Games of second tour will start on June 6. Aronian will compete with Alexei Shirov (Spain). Peter Leko (Hungary) - Yevgeni Bareyev (Russia), Sergei Rublyovski (Russia) - Alexander Grishchuk (Russia) and Boris Gelfand - Gata Kamski (U.S.) pairs will compete with each other. World champion Vladimir Kramnik, Pyotr Svidler, Alexander Morozevich (all of them from Russia) and Vishvantan Anand (India) will join the winners of this tour. In September the eight will determine world champion in Mexico by circular contest rules.

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