8 June 2017
Vladmir Kramnik Wins Former World Champions Duel in Stavanger
And joins Hikaru Nakamura in the lead.
Photo: @NorwayChess
On June 7, the second round games of the Altibox Norway Chess Tournament were played in Stavanger. Vladimir Kramnik won against Viswanathan Anand with Black. The games Nakamura - Aronian, Giri - Karjakin, Caruana - Carlsen, and So - Vachier-Lagrave were drawn.Standings after round 2:
1-2. Vladimir Kramnik, Hikaru Nakamura - 1.5,
3-8. Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin - 1,
9-10. Anish Giri, Viswanathan Anand - 0.5.
Round 3 pairings:
Carlsen - Nakamura, Kramnik - So, Aronian - Giri, Vachier-Lagrave - Caruana, Karjakin - Anand.
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