Armenia’s Aronian Wins Chess Superbet Rapid & Blitz 2019 in Bucharest
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Armenia’s leading Grandmaster Levon Aronian won the Superbet Rapid & Blitz 2019 of the Grand Chess Tour in Bucharest after beating Russia’s Sergey Karjakin 1.5-0.5 in the tie-break, Public Radio of Armenia reports.
Superbet Rapid & Blitz is the 6th out of a total of 8 events in the 2019 Grand Chess Tour.
Seven of the twelve tour “regulars”, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin and Wesley So, were joined by s Vlasidlav Artemiev, Le Quang Liem and Anton Korobov.