Levon Aronian to play against Alexei Shirov

Levon Aronian shared point with Sergey Karjakin in the 5th round of Tal Memorial chess tournament ongoing in Moscow. Scoring half point he stays in the lead in the tournament. Grischuk drew the match with Mamedyarov, Kramnik with Wang Hao, Nakamura with Shirov. Eljanov beat Boris Gelfand 1:0.

After the 5th round, Karjakin, Wang Hao, Mamedyarov, Nakamura and Grischuk share the 2-6th places with 3 points. Kramnik has 2.5 points, Gelfand and Eljanov 1.5 points, Shirov 1 point.

Levon Aronian will play against Alexei Shirov in the 6th round due today.