The Armenian grandmaster and member of the 2800 club Levon Aronian won the 2012 edition of the Tata Steel Chess tournament. In the last round he made a quick draw with Teimour Radjabov to finish with a total of 9.0 points and at least half a point ahead of the nearest follower.
Aronian started with solid victories against Karjakin and Nakamura in the first two rounds, but a third round battle with Carlsen shed doubts on his form as he lost the 2800s clash with the young Norwegian.
Aronian reacted perfectly to the defeat and recovered scoring a superb 4,5/6 in the next rounds clibing to top position and with a comfortable lead. The intrigue was momentarily back when Aronian lost to David Navara, but the Armenian GM recovered by defeating with black the challenger for the world title Boris Gelfand.
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