Armenia’s Levon Aronian defeated Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in Round 6 of the Norway Chess-2017.

Aronian had drawn the game against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France in the previous round.

With 4 points the Armenian GM now ties for first place with Hikaru Nakamura of the United States.

Magnus Carlsen vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So vs Anish Giri and Hikaru Nakamura vs Sergey Karjakin matches ended in draws, while India’s Viswanathan Anand crashed Fabiano Caruana with blacks.