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Aronian to play with Nepomniachtchi in 1st round of Sinquefield Cup


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Sinquefield Cup chess tournament will kick off tomorrow in Saint Louis, USA. The world’s top 10 grandmasters are invited to participate.

Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian will play in the first round with Russia representative Ian Nepomniachtchi.

Other pairings of the first round are Fabiano Caruana (USA) - Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Sergey Karjakin (Russia) - Peter Svidler (Russia), Viswanathan Anand (India) - Hikaru Nakamura (USA), and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) - Wesley So (USA).

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