Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian beat Hikaru Nakamura (U.S.) in the first round of Tal Memorial.

Aronian will face off against Evgeny Tomashevsky in the second round.

Other board pairings have been announced as follows: Fabiano Caruana - Hikaru Nakamura, Luke McShane-Taimur Radjabov, Vladimir Kramnik - Alexander Grischuk and Alexander Morozevich - Magnus Carlsen.