Radjabov beats Aronian to win Airthings Masters

Teimour Radjabov shed tears of joy as he defeated Levon Aronian with a game to spare to win the $60,000 top prize in the Airthings Masters and book a place in the San Francisco final of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. Levon needed to win and got his chance in a first game that reminded him of a famous game featured in a James Bond movie, but he spoilt the win and overpressed in the next game before Teimour got the draw he needed in the last. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took third place after another totally crazy day of action against Daniil Dubov.

See also:

• Champions Chess Tour homepage
• All the Airthings Masters games with computer analysis: Prelims, Knockout
• Carlsen, So & Nakamura back for Airthings Masters
• Carlsen-Aronian in Round 1 of Airthings Masters
• Airthings Masters Day 1: Five lead as Carlsen ends winless
• Airthings Masters Day 2: Only Magnus moves up on day of draws
• Airthings Masters Day 3: Carlsen 1st as Giri & Grischuk knocked out
• Airthings Masters Day 4: Nakamura and So beaten
• Airthings Masters Day 5: Carlsen, Nakamura, So & Nepo all out
• Airthings Masters Day 6: Radjabov and Aronian strike
• Airthings Masters Day 7: It’s an Aronian-Radjabov final
• Airthings Masters Day 8: Radjabov takes lead in Airthings Masters final