I was in Manila (at age 27) when she first took up chess there at age 6. That her heritage originates from a developing world economy such as the Philippines and that she emphasizes Levon's trait to see the good in others seems to indicate an idealistic leaning. I am also amazed that a GM would share his time with us and even share some of his inner thought processes with us relative n00bs. Also I noticed his friendly demeanor both in his communications here (if Levon is languagehasmeaning) and also the handshake he did with Magnus Carlsen in a Youtube that I viewed.

Up thread he stated there were still some tricks remaining in this game. And he had advocated moving the rook over to the right side, but the consensus moved the knight instead. I wonder what he foresaw as a possibility? I was observing on that Youtube speed chess match with Carlsen, that Magnus sacrificed a pawn to get move more aggressively with his King and bishop to get behind the front line of pawns of Levon. I wonder if Carlsen could see that a draw was likely and decided to be more creative in hopes of win? I notice that my urge when I dabble in chess if I want to be more aggressive and creative than conservative (but I am not good enough at chess to do it with appropriate consideration). I read that Carlsen doesn't follow any one set of opening strategies and is very creative. Any way, I don't really understand all this. I haven't studied. A lot to think about and I don't have the free time.

I just saw the thread Lets play a game of Chess. It's fascinating to see @letsplayagame (who I suspect is GM Aronian) interested in crypto (BTC and allegedly aware of privacy focused technologies).

I did the queries , here are the candidates:

2816 Veselin Topalov
2814 Hikaru Nakamura
2808 Fabiano Caruana
2793 Anish Giri
2784 Dmitry Jakovenko
2782 Liren Ding
2777 Vladimir Kramnik
2773 Wesley So
2771 Alexander Grischuk
2765 Levon Aronian
2762 Sergey Karjakin
2758 Evgeny Tomashevsky
2744 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
2742 Michael Adams
2741 Radoslaw Wojtaszek
2738 Teimour Radjabov
2737 Pendyala Harikrishna
2736 Shakhrivar Mamedyarov*
2734 Yi Wei
2732 Leinier Dominguez Perez
2728 David Navara
2727 Peter Svidler
2726 Vassily Ivanchuk
2725 Nikita Vitiugov
2721 Yangyi Yu
2720 Dmitry Andreikin
2717 Pavel Eljanov
2712 Hao Wang
2707 Peter Leko
2705 Ian Nepomniachtchi
2700 Anton Korobov

* Maimdiarove's name is butchered horribly all the time and the correct spelling is unknown