Aronian Celebrates Two Victories at the Start of the Opera Euro Rapid Tournament

Armenia's top chess player Levon Aronian started the online rapid chess tournament Opera Euro Rapid today. Our grandmaster won his opening game against Chinese player Ding Liren, but then lost to world champion Magnus Carlsen. In the third round, he defeated Frenchman Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and in the fourth, he drew with American Wesley So.

As a result, Levon Aronian has earned 2.5 points out of a possible four and is currently sharing 2nd to 5th places with Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, and Azerbaijani Teimour Radjabov. The tournament leaderboard is topped by world champion Magnus Carlsen, who, after losing his first round, won three consecutive games, earning 3 points. Later, in his last game, Aronian suffered an unexpected defeat against Russian Dubov.