Levon Aronian wins Sinquefield Cup-2015

Armenian team leader Levon Aronian today won the title of the winner of Sinquefield Cup super tournament held in the U.S. Saint Louis city. 

In the last 9th round of the tournament, the Armenian grossmeister played draw with the Bulgarian Veselin Topalov and gained 6 points, leaving his contestants behind. The other games of the tournament are not yet finished.

Aronian hadn’t won a title for a long time, and has been recently left out of the FIDE top 10 players list, appearing in the 11th place.

Sinquefield Cup-2015, 9th round

Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) vs. Levon Aronian (Armenia): 0.5:0.5

Viswanathan Anand (India) vs. Magnus Carlsen (Norway): 0.5:0.5

Hikaru Nakamura (USA) vs. Alexander Grischuk (Russia)

Fabiano Caruana (USA) vs.Wesley So (USA)

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) – Anish Giri (Holand)

Current tournament list

1. Levon Aronian - 6 points

2. Magnus Carlsen - 5 points

3. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - 4.5 points

4. Alexander Grischuk - 4.5 points

5. Anish Giri - 4.5 points

6. Veselin Topalov - 4.5 points

7. Hikaru Nakamura – 4 points

8. Viswanathan Anand- 4 points

9. Fabiano Caruana - 3.5 points

10. Wesley So - 2.5 points