Levon Aronian has won the 2007 Chess 960 World Championship after a fierce battle yesterday with Anand which went into tie break games. This is the second time that Aronian has won this title.


Here is the wrap up article for the tournament: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/007200708171421.htm


The final standings for the 2007 Chess 960 World Championship:

1) Aronian
2) Anand
3) Bacrot
4) Kasimdzhanov

Congratulations to Aronian for another impressive victory in the prestigious Chess 960 event!

 

I'm not a fan of Chess960, or any other variants for that matter, although the resulting positions have a quirky quality that appeals to some.  A recall a contributor at another website being a huge fan of chess960 (aka Fischerrandom chess) and insisting on calling chess "Chess1" as if it were just an unimportant sub-set of Chess960! (the 960 refers to the number of different legal starting positions there are in this variant).

I was not amused...