YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 26, ARMENPRESS. Tuesday's fifth round settled the score with 16 games of Blitz chess, with the winner claiming a king's share of the $100,000 prize purse, after the leader of the Armenian men’s chess team Levon Aronian played draw with Hikaru Nakamura.

As reports "Armenpress", Nakamura claimed victory with the total score of 9,5-6,5 in the 16 games of Blitz chess, thus winning the tournament. Aronian had 14,5 points in his active.

Monday’s fourth round of the Showdown in Saint Louis, the last game of the match in Classical time control, quickly fizzled into an opposite-colored bishop endgame and drew after just 30 moves. The quick result keeps the head-to-head match between two of the world’s top-ten tied up, with just Tuesday’s round remaining to settle the score.

Monday’s game featured the same line of the English that Aronian had used with the white pieces in Round 2 -- though this time, without the Nakamura misstep in the endgame. Round 4 featured a sharp, tightrope-walking middlegame, with Nakamura’s queen looking dangerously cramped in the middle of the board with 11... Qc5, though the American super Grandmaster would eventually find his way through to the half-point.

The Showdown in Saint Louis is a five-round exhibition match between two of the world's finest Grandmasters, Hikaru Nakamura and Levon Aronian. The event showcases four classical games of chess, and a fifth round featuring 16 games of Blitz chess. The Grandmasters played for the 60/40 split of a $100,000 prize pool.