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Levon Grigori Aronian (Armenian: Լևոն Գրիգորի Արոնյան, romanized: Levon Grigori Aronyan; born 6 October 1982) is an Armenian-American chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster in 2000, at age 17.
Levon Aronian is an Armenian-American super grandmaster who has long been among the world’s best players. He first entered the top 20 in 2005 and still hasn’t lost that distinction. Most of those 15 years or so have been spent in the top 10. In 2021, he switched federations from Armenia to the U.S.
Mar 20, 2024 · GM Levon Aronian won his maiden title at the 2024 American Cup. Continuing to play in this tournament what he calls "adventurous chess," he defeated GM Wesley So only in the final rapid game.
Levon Grigorievich Aronian was born in Yerevan and learned to play chess when he was nine years old. He is a former U12 (1994) and Junior (U20) World Champion (2002), became an International Master in 1996 at 13, and became a Grandmaster in 2000 at 17.
Feb 25, 2023 · GM Levon Aronian won the inaugural WR Chess Masters 2023 after winning all three games against his co-leaders in the rapid tiebreaks. GMs Gukesh D and Ian Nepomniachtchi finish in tied second-third.
Jul 29, 2017 · Three years later, shortly after the Soviet Union collapsed and Armenia became an independent nation, Levon Aronian, under Khachiyan’s tutelage, quit school to focus on chess full time. Now...
Levon Aronian is an Armenian-American Grandmaster and a former blitz, rapid and Chess960 World Champion. After earning the grandmaster title at age 17, Aronian joined the world’s elite a few years later, eventually reaching a peak FIDE rating of 2830, the fourth highest ever recorded in history.
Jul 18, 2022 · America's newest e-sports chess star Levon Aronian shrugged off a slow start to the FTX Road to Miami to clinch his first title of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour season. The 39-year-old Armenian, the oldest player in the tournament, overpowered China's former child prodigy Wei Yi on day two of the final.
Nov 23, 2021 · Grandmaster Levon Aronian won the blitz portion of 2021 Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz event in Kolkata, India in November, scoring 11.5/18 in the double round-robin tournament and defeating Indian upstart GM Arjun Erigaisi in an Armageddon playoff.
Just like in the old times, Levon Aronian dominated at the Armageddon Playoffs and won Tata Steel Chess India 2021 Blitz. The Armenian GM, who conspicuously missed from the latest headlines, managed to win the strong tournament on tie-breaks.
