Tal Memorial Starts With A Bang

The Tal Memorial in Moscow started with with four decisive games out of five in a thrilling first round.

In the battle of the top two seeds, Lev Aronian beat Vladimir Kramnik to get off to a great start.  There were also wins for Grischuk, Karjakin and Wang Hao.

The official site (in Russian) is here.  Live coverage of the games is at this link, while there is excellent live video coverage with Russian commentary here. 

Round two is currently underway!