Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian, playing with white pieces, will face Norway’s Magnus Carlsen in the 1st round of Moscow-hosted Mikhail Tal Memorial.The board pairings of the remaining contenders have been announced as follows: Hikaru Nakamura- Boris Gelfand, Viswanathan Anand- Sergey Karjakin, Vassily Ivanchuk- Peter Svidler, Vladimir Kramnik- Ian Nepomniachtchi.

The round robin tournament will kick off at 3:00 pm Yerevan time.