One of the most surprising results of the Baku Chess World Cup was the early exit of Armenia’s Levon Aronian. The Armenian suffered a shock second round 0-2 rapid tiebreak defeat against Ukrainian Grandmaster Alexander Areshchenko. As per Aronian, a one-move blackout ended his tournament. Since then, other fancied players like; Alexander Grischuk, Vassily Ivanchuk and Peter Leko have all exited the 2015 World Cup. Leko lost to Netherlands’ Anish Giri. After two games in round-3 on September 18, 2015, seven matches were destined to go the tiebreaks consisting of rapids, blitz games or an Armageddon. The notable ones involved Nepomniachtchi against Nakamura