In the 1/8 final of the online tournament, Aronian competed with England's Jones Jones and after 8 games surpassed his opponent with a score of 5.5: 2.5. Next Aronian's opponent in this tournament is the winner of the Alexander Grischuk-Rauf Mammadov pair.

Earlier, Leon Aronian became the champion of the German Club Championship. The Baden-Baden team became the champion of the German Club Chess Championship, in which Aronian played 4 games and drew all of them.

The Bundesliga consists of 7 rounds. Aronian's "Baden-Baden" won in all rounds, this was the team's 14th victory in the championship.