Levon Aronian, Hou Yifan to play a tie-break game
Round 2 of the 1/32 final the FIDE World Chess Cup 2017 underway in Tbilisi, Georgia was held on Thursday with Armenian GM Levon Aronian and a Chinese chess grandmaster Hou Yifan playing the second draw in a row. As the Olympic Committee reported, the winner of the pair will be decided today in a tie-break game.
To note, the FIDE World Cup is a 128-player knockout with a $1,280,000 prize fund that qualifies two players for the Candidates tournament next year which decides who will be Magnus Carlsen’s next challenger.