Levon Aronian has taken first place in the rapid chess event at the Biel Chess Festival 2026, the Chess Federation of Armenia reports.<\/p>\n
The round-robin tournament is being held from July 12 to 23 in Biel, Switzerland.<\/p>\n
The Masters group features six grandmasters: Levon Aronian, Lê Quang Liêm, Aydin Suleymanli, Matthias Bluebaum, Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş, and José Eduardo Martínez Alcántara.<\/p>\n
The participants will compete in rapid, classical, and blitz chess formats, with the overall winner determined by the combined results of all three tournaments.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Levon Aronian has taken first place in the rapid chess event at the Biel Chess Festival 2026, the Chess Federation of Armenia reports. The round-robin tournament is being held from July 12 to 23 in Biel, Switzerland. The Masters group features six grandmasters: Levon Aronian, Lê Quang Liêm, Aydin Suleymanli, Matthias Bluebaum, Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":284150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-sport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284173,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284168\/revisions\/284173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}