Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian has advanced to the quarterfinals of the FIDE Chess Wold Cup being held in Russia’s Khanty-Mansiysk.

The Armenian player defeated Vietnamese Lê Quang Liêm in a tiebreak match in the 1/8 finals, the National Olympic Committee’s press service reported.

Aronian had played draw with his Vietnamese opponent in the first two games of the 1/8 finals

Defending champion Aronian is looking to get a third World Cup victory after having won the arduous event in 2005 and 2017.

Two other representatives of Armenia Robert Hovhannisyan and Armenian champion Arman Pashikyan dropped out of the competition in the first round, while Sergey Movsesyan lost to Ding Liren of China in the second round.

Chess World Cup 2019 is a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament taking place from 9 September to 4 October. The finalists of the tournament will qualify for the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship 2020.