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.