Levon Aronian dropped to the second place after day two at the Saint Louis Rapid tournament, alongside Hikaru Nakamura, Le Quang Liem and Fabiano Caruana.

The Armenian grandmaster faced Garry Kasparov in the first round of the day, and the fourth of the tournament, with the game ending in a draw. In the second round, Armenian lost to Le, and defeated Caruana in the next one.

Ian Nepomniachtchi is in clear first place.