Levon Aronyan has qualified for the quarterfinal of the FIDE World Cup being held in Russia’s Khanty-Mansiysk.

In the 1/8 final won Vietnamese Le Quang Liem in a tie-break.
The first and second games of the confrontation had had no winner.
Let us recall three other representatives of Armenia have dropped out of the competition. Robert Hovhannisyan and Armenia’s current champion Arman Pashikyan failed to overcome the first round and Sergei Movsesyan lost to Chinese Ding Liren in the second round.
Levon Aronyan is the current winner of the FIDE World Cup.