Aronian beats Carlsen in the final. Levon Aronian won the 2025 FreestyleChessGrand Slam tournament in Grootbos, South Africa, on Thursday, Freestyle-chess.com reported ... Levon Aronian with the winner’s silver plate.
Erigaisi tried to pressure Aronian with his white pieces, but the Armenian-turned-American held his ground to play out a draw in round five of the showpiece in Goa ....
<p>Arjun Erigaisi played brilliantly to defeat and eliminate two-time World Cup winner Levon Aronian and advance to the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Cup which is being played at Resort Rio in Goa.
Levon Aronian and P Harikrishna will aim to cash in on their white pieces on Saturday when they play the last classical game of their World Cup pre-quarterfinals against Arjun Erigaisi and Jose Eduardo MartinezAlcantara, respectively.
Vidit appeared to have survived a scare against 12-year-old Faustino Oro as he needed to make 24 moves in 12 minutes and 17 in three minutes.America’s Levon Aronian and China’s Wei Yi won against ...