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

Russian Super GM Evgeny Tomashevsky eliminated him in World Cup 2013

Ukrainian GM, Alexander Areshchenko eliminated him in 2015.
The interesting point is that Aronian won against Areshchenko in 2005 and Areshchenko did revenge 10 years later!

🔹🔺 The interesting and tactical moments
of the Isle of Man International 2017 (Douglas ENG) Round 3 🔹🔺

🔸IOM Open Masters 2017
🔸Round 3
⚪️Magnus Carlsen 2827
⚫️Jeffery Xiong 2663
🔺1-0

📘 14.Re1
With the idea of Nf3 and over-protection of the important central and advanced pawn.