Armenia’s leading Grandmaster Levon Aronian won the Superbet Rapid & Blitz 2019 of the Grand Chess Tour in Bucharest after defeating Russia’s Sergey Karjakin 1.5-0.5 in the tie-break.

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Superbet Rapid & Blitz is the 6th out of a total of 8 events in the 2019 Grand Chess Tour.

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After accepting his trophy, Levon Aronian‬ stated that, “If you want to be remembered, you want to be remembered as the guy who came there and won.”

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Per Grand Chess Tour