On November 6, Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian will play with Wang Hao (China) in the 2nd round of Mikhail Tal Memorial 2010 in Moscow.

The pairs of the 2nd round are as follows:

Wang Hao (China, 2727)-Levon Aronian (Armenia, 2801)

Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2791)-Alexander Grischuk (Russia, 2771)

Boris Gelfand (Israel, 2741)-Alexei Shirov (Spain, 2735)

 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan, 2763)-Sergey Karjakin (Russia, 2760)

 Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 2741)-Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine, 2742)

 The results of the first round are as follows:

 Aronian-Kramnik-1:0

Karjakin-Gelfand-1:0

Shirov-Wang Hao-1:0

Grischuk-Eljanov-1:0

Mamedyarov-Nakamura-0.5:0.5

After the 1st round the standings are as follows:

 Aronian-1

 Grischuk-1

 Karjakin-1

 Wang Hao-1

 Mamedyarov-0.5

 Nakamura-0.5

Kramnik-0

Shirov-0

Eljanov-0