Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian has lost 2 blindfold chess games at Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament going on in Nice, France.

In the 1st round, Aronian lost a blindfold game to Russia’s Sergey Karjakin, yet managed to win a quick chess game. In the 2nd round, he was defeated by Norway’s Magnus Karlsen.

In the 3rd round, Aronian will play vs. Jan Smeets (Netherlands)

Currently, Aronian is the 11th. Ukraine’s Vasily Ivanchuk and Ruslan Ponomariov are in the lead in the overall standings with 3 points from 4 games, followed at half a point’s distance by Vladimir Kramnik and Peter Svidler.