Beijing Tournament ends with wins for Aronian and Hou Yifan

From December 18th to 19th, Beijing hosted the third SportAccord World Mind Games tournament. Levon Aronian won all three mind game chess disciplines: rapid, blitz and blindfold. Silver went to U.S grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, bronze went to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan.

In the women’s blindfold section, Hou Yifan won gold with 6.0/7 points. Lithuanian GM Viktorija Cmilyte won silver, in third place was Anna Zatonskih from USA.