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Levon Aronian (born October 6, 1982) is an Armenian chess player. On the January 2006 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2752, making him number five in the world and Armenia's number one.

In December 2005 Levon beat Ruslan Ponomariov
of Ukraine in the final round to win the World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. After a draw in two regular games, Levon won both Rapid games to take the crown and emerge undefeated in seven rounds.

In March 2006 he took sole first place at the annual Linares chess tournament
, half a point ahead of Teimour Radjabov
and FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov
.

An early sign of his ability came when he won the 1994 World Under-12 championship in Szeged with 8/9, ahead of future luminaries including Etienne Bacrot, Ruslan Ponomariov
, Francisco Vallejo Pons
and Alexander Grischuk
. In 2002 he became World Junior Champion
, scoring 10/13 and finishing ahead of Luke McShane
, Surya Ganguly, Artyom Timofeev, Bu Xiangzhi
, Pentala Harikrishna
and others.

In 2004 he progressed to the 3rd round of the 2004 FIDE World Championship
before being knocked out by Pavel Smirnov. In 2005 he was part of a five-way tie for first place at the Gibtele.com Masters in Gibraltar with Zahar Efimenko, Kiril Georgiev, Alexei Shirov
and Emil Sutovsky
. He has also been a regular particpant in the German Bundesliga and other team competitions; in the 2005 Russian Team Championship, for example, he scored +5 =3 -0 with an Elo performance rating of around 2850.

In 2003 Aronian won the Chess960
(Fischer Random) open at Mainz; this qualified him for a match against Chess960 "World Champion" Peter Svidler
at Mainz the following year, a match which he lost 4.5-3.5.

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