At the Altibox Norway Chess tournament, Levon Aronian defeated Vladimir Kramnik, Chess.com reports.
In doing so, the Armenian player joined Hikaru Nakamura in the lead going into the second rest day.
On Wednesday is the second. The pairings for round seven are Kramnik-Carlsen, MVL-Giri, Karjakin-Aronian, So-Caruana, and Anand-Nakamura.