Vladimir Kramnik and Levon Aronian were tied 1-1 after the first day’s play of their Rapid Chess match at Yerevan. Both games went with white the world chess champion won first and then Aronian replied. In both games White played into a position he guessed his opponent would head for, and then demonstrated some deep opening preparation. In both games Black was soon slightly worse and never recovered. Kramnik’s win was ...

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