Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian holds the 5th place in Tal Memorial standings with 1 point to face Ukraine’s Vassily Ivanchuk in round 3.

Ivanchuk along with Ian Nepomniatchi and Magnus Carlsen share 1-3rd positions with 1.5 points each.

The other 3rd round pairings are: Boris Gelfand (Israel) – Sergei Karjakin (Russia); Hikaru Nakamura (U.S.) – Peter Svidler (Russia); Viswanathan Anand (India) - Ian Nepomniatchi (Russia); Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) – Magnus Carlsen (Norway).