Aronian wins World Cup in great performance, Carlsen getting back to form at Isle of Man tournament.

World n°2 chessplayer Levon Aronian convincingly won the world cup for the second time in his career, defeating China's strongest player Ding Liren. The world cup is a strange but very exciting tournament where each player has one standard time game with black and white, then if no one comes victorious in this "mini match" a series of rapid tiebreaks decides the victor. Having to play for almost a month in such conditions requires special stamina, concentration and will. Even world class players like former champion Vishy Anand were eliminated in the early stages. Magnus Carlsen himself was knocked down in a brilliant game by former child prodigy Bu XiangZhi.


Aronian is a figure by itself in the chess world, his games show imagination, technique and beautiful attacking resources. Levon himself has charm and looks like Jean Paul Belmondo in his prime years wearing his colorful and stylish clothes. Many see a possible Carlsen-Aronian match as a reincarnation of the greatest chess rivalries in history like Capablanca-Alekhine or Karpov-Kasparov, time will tell.

On the other hand, despite having some forgetable results this year, the world champion is crushing everyone in the Isle of Man tournament, today he defeated elite player Fabiano Caruana with the black pieces of a Spanish opening, showing pure class:

For me the fact is clear, Magnus is still the man!