On November 6, in the 2nd tour of Mikhail Tal Memorial, Levon Aronian (Armenia) tied against Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine).

The remaining 4 matches also ended in draws.

2nd tour results:

Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine) - Levon Aronian (Armenia) - 0,5:0,5

Peter Leko (Hungary) - Boris Gelfand (Israel)- 0,5:0,5

Magnus Carlsen (Norway) - Alexander Morozevich (Russia) - 0,5:0,5

Peter Svidler (Russia) - Vassili Ivanchuk (Ukraine)- 0,5:0,5

Vladimir Kramnik (Russia)- Viswanathan Anand (India)- 0,5:0,5