Aronian Wins Superbet Rapid & Blitz In Playoff
On Sunday Levon Aronian defeated Sergey Karjakin in a playoff to win the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Grand Chess Tour in Bucharest. With his victory, the Armenian grandmaster secured a spot in the London playoffs next month, chess.com reports.
Anton Korobov's Cinderella story was brutally disturbed on Sunday. He started with five straight losses and would eventually collect just two points—the same amount Fabiano Caruana got on the last day.
Aronian's 4.5/9 was more than enough to overtake Korobov but just enough to share first place. Karjakin made 6/9, which meant both players ended on 20 points.
With or without the playoff, this result was highly disappointing for Karjakin. The Russian GM needed a clear victory in Bucharest to overtake Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the overall standings and came incredibly close.
As it went, Aronian and Karjakin are now tied for fourth place (behind Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren and Vachier-Lagrave) in the overall GCT standings (below), but since Aronian has one more event, he'll surely take the fourth spot.
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