On September 5-12, 2009 Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian will participate in Grand Slam Masters final in Bilbao, Spain. It became possible after Bulgarian chess player Veselin Topalov (Nanjing Chess Tournament winner) pulled out of the tournament. Aronyan was the second after Topalov in Nanjing.
Aronian’s opponents are Alexander Grischuk (Russia), Sergey Kariakin (Ukraine) and Alexei Shirov (Bulgaria).
















