YEREVAN, DECEMBER 1, ARMENPRESS. The leader of the Armenian Men’s Chess Team Levon Aronian has again occupied the 5th position in the FIFA ranking list.

As reports “Armenpress”, Levon Aronian was ranked the 5th in the FIFA ranking for December. He currently has 2797 points in his active. The reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen, who has recently defended his title in the match against the former world chess champion Anand, again tops the ranking list.

Levon Aronian is an Armenian chess Grandmaster. On the May 2012 FIDE list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2825, making him the third highest rated player in history.

Aronian won the Chess World Cup 2005. He led the Armenian national team to the Gold medals in the 2006 (Turin), 2008 (Dresden) and 2012 (Istanbul) Chess Olympics and at the World Team Chess Championship in Ningbo 2011. He won the FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2010, qualifying him for the Candidates tournament for the World Chess Championship 2012, where he was knocked out in the first round. He was also World Chess960 Champion in 2006 and 2007, World Rapid Chess Champion in 2009, and World Blitz Chess Champion in 2010.

Levon Aronian was declared the best sportsman of Armenia in 2005 and was awarded the title of "Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of Armenia" in 2009.