Armenia’s Levon Aronian defeated Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in Round 6 of the Norway Chess-2017.
Aronian had drawn the game against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France in the previous round.
With 4 points the Armenian GM now ties for first place with Hikaru Nakamura of the United States.
Magnus Carlsen vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So vs Anish Giri and Hikaru Nakamura vs Sergey Karjakin matches ended in draws, while India’s Viswanathan Anand crashed Fabiano Caruana with blacks.
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