27...Qxh5?? Suicide!
28.Kg2!+- (with the idea of Rh1)

18...Nb6!
With the idea of transferring the knight to the d5 outpost and blocking the d4 isolated pawn.
Since Nimzowitsch, the knight is known to be the best blocker.

31.Rfe1?? A strange blunder
31...Qh4-+ The game is over

12 years later: Aronian wins the FIDE World Cup again!

Levon Aronian clinched his second FIDE World Cup title and the $120,000 first prize by beating Ding Liren in both rapid games.

Chess World Cup 2000

Chess World Cup 2002

Chess World Cup 2005

Chess World Cup 2007

Chess World Cup 2009

Chess World Cup 2011

Chess World Cup 2013

Chess World Cup 2015

Chess World Cup 2017

Levon Aronian's tree-chart in Khanty Mansiysk Rissia, 2005 FIDE World Cup, where he won his first title.

The road of Levon Aronian's Success in FIDE World Cup championship Tbilisi, Georgia 2017

📗 Levon Aronian has the experience of attending four times in the Fide World Cup tournaments. The result was two championships and two times getting eliminated. In the following graph you can see these results.

Russian Super GM Dmitry Jakavenko eliminated him in World Cup 2007