In the fifth round of Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament in Nice, France, Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian lost to Russia's Peter Svidler (0:2).
Presently, Aronian scores 10th with 3,5 points and yields to the tournament leader Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine by 4 points.
Magnus Carlsen (Norway) and Boris Gelfand (Israel) take 2nd and 3rd places respectively.
In the next 6th round Levon Aronian will play vs. Azerbaijan's Vugar Hashimov.
