Levon Aronian won Magnus Carlsen in the rapid chess tournament

The leader of the Armenian national men’s chess team Levon Aronian claimed victory over world champion Magnus Carlsen in the rapid chess tournament being held in Zurich, Switzerland and came in third in overall in that specific competition. Armenpress news agency informs about this.

As Armchess.am informed before, rapid chess games were held on the last day of the special tournament of Zurich. In the first round Aronian defeated Vishy Anand, then went on to beat the current world champ Magnus Carlsen. In the third round the Armenian Grandmaster played with blacks and shared the point with Boris Gelfand. In the round with the strongest chess player of the USA Hikaru Nakamura Aronian was defeated. In the last round he shared the point with Fabiano Caruana.
Levon Aronian gained 3 points in the Rapid Chess Tournament and held the third place. Italian Fabiano Caruana is in the first place with 4 points. Hikaru Nakamura holds the second place with 3.5 points.
Levon Grigori Aronian is an Armenian chess Grandmaster.

On the May 2012 FIDE list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2825, making him the third highest rated player in history.