Chess: Champions Chess Tour Finals: Levon Aronian defeated by Teimour Radjabov

News.am, Armenia
Sept 29 2021

In the fifth round of the Champions Chess Tour Finals (online), Levon Aronian competed with Azerbaijani Teimour Radjabov and lost four matches 1.5-2.5.

The Armenian chess grandmaster was defeated in the second match, and the other matches ended with ties.

In the previous four rounds, Aronian was defeated by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Hikaru Nakamura, outscored Vladislav Artemiev and Dutch chess player Anish Giri.

In the sixth round, Aronian’s opponent will be Jan-Krzysztof Duda.