Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian tied the 5th round game against Hikaru Nakamura (U.S.) at Tal Memorial to top the standings with 3 points.

Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Ian Nepomniatchi (Russia) and Sergei Karjakin (Russia) have the same number of points.

In the next round, Aronian will face Boris Gelfand of Israel. The other pairings are: Vassily Ivanchuk – Viswanathan Anand (India), Vladimir Kramnil (Russia) - Hikaru Nakamura, Sergei Karjakin, Magnus Carlsen – Peter Svidler (Russia).