(Photo taken from chess-news.ru)
So, as usual, the players played the preliminary blitz event in order to determine the numbers for the Classic event :). Aronian became 1st with 4 points out of 5.
Final standings:
Aronian 4
Caruana, Anand 3.5
Nakamura 2
Kramnik, Karjakin 1
Some games from the blitz event
Pairings of the 1st round of the Classical event
Aronian, Levon 2777 – Karjakin, Sergey 2760
Caruana, Fabiano 2811 – Nakamura, Hikaru 2776
Anand, Viswanathan 2797 – Kramnik, Vladimir 2783