YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net) — Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian drew the match against former world champion Garry Kasparov to in the ninth and final round to finish third in the 2020 Champions Showdown: Chess9LX (Fischer Random) online tournament over the weekend.
Hikaru Nakamura shared the title with Magnus Carlsen with six points apiece, half a point ahead of Aronian and World No. 2 Fabiano Caruana of the United States with 5.5 points apiece.
The 2020 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX was a 10-player Chess960 single round-robin, which took place online from September 11-13 and was hosted by the Saint Louis Chess Club.
