On June 7, the second round games of the Altibox Norway Chess Tournament were played in Stavanger. As the Chess Federation of Armenia reports, Vladimir Kramnik won against Viswanathan Anand with black. The games Nakamura – Aronian, Giri – Karjakin, Caruana – Carlsen, and So – Vachier-Lagrave were drawn.

With seven rounds still to go in the strongest tournament of the year, Vachier, Karjakin, Aronian, Wesley So, Caruana and Carlsen share the second spot on one point each having drawn both games while Anand and Giri share the ninth spot with half a point from two games.