Levon Aronian set a statement: I am #2, and I'll challenge Magnus for the World Title! Well, of course he never said that, but his way to play in Wijk aan Zee - despite his loss with Van Wely in last round - seems to strongly affirm his leading position as probable Challenger. Levon played his best chess during the tournament, and won it  with one round to go. In the last round he probably pushed a bit too much; Loek Van Wely didn't falter and won the game. Still, Levon finished 1.5 points ahead of Giri and Karjakin, with an impressive +6=4-1 score, which looks like a warning to the participants to the Candidates tournament, to be held in March. 

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GAME OF THE DAY 1 Jan 11   GM Alex Yermolinsky   Sweere 2 Jan 12   GM Varuzhan Akobian   SCORPION83 3 Jan 13   GM Gregory Kaidanov   Kaidanov 4 Jan 15   GM Joel Benjamin   MrHat 5 Jan 17   GM Larry Christiansen   LarryC 6 Jan 18   GM Alex Yermolinsky   Sweere 7 Jan 19   GM David Smerdon   smurfo 8 Jan 21   GM Larry Christiansen   LarryC 9 Jan 23   GM Miguel Illescas   Illescas 10 Jan 25   GM Ronen Har-Zvi   Indiana-Jones 11 Jan 26   GM Jonathan Speelman   Speelman TRIVIA WINNERS 1 Jan 11 SaltofLife Ahijah BeqoStudent 2 Jan 12 Corocotta Jack-ONeill mstefa 3 Jan 13 TheEye Deatcatbouncer cosmo22 4 Jan 16 KingHarvest bioniclime Disinterred 5 Jan 17 Activekids caglar DuoFold 6 Jan 18 Activekids TheEye doubleknights 7 Jan 19 RumiLives MikeAngelo Laurence 8 Jan 21 TheEye Gambit101 little-master 9 Jan 23 Corocotta Activekids LouCid 10 Jan 25 MikeAngelo oldtimer pinak 11 Jan 26 funkymunky MikeAngelo fearnone PLAYERS GM Levon Aronian 2803 (ARM) GM Hikaru Nakamura 2786 (USA) GM Fabiano Caruana 2782 (ITA) GM Boris Gelfand 2777 (ISR) GM Sergey Karjakin 2756 (RUS) GM Leinier Dominguez 2754 (CUB) GM Arkadij Naiditsch 2737 (GER) GM Anish Giri 2734 (NED) GM Wesley So 2719 (PHI) GM Pentala Harikrishna 2708 (IND) GM Richard Rapport 2687 (HUN) GM Loek Van Wely 2678 (NED)