Russia's Jan Nepomnyashi will face France's Maxime Vache-Lagrave and China's Liren Ding will face US Fabiano Caruana in today's matches, Offsideplus.az reports.

It should be noted that in the first matches of the second round, Carlsen defeated Alirza Firuzca, who played under the FIDE flag, and Hikaru Nakamura, an American, defeated Anish Giri, a representative of the Netherlands.

Currently, M. Carlsen is the first with five points, H. Nakamura is the second with four points. Other participants of the tournament M.Vashe-Lagrave, L.Ding and F.Caruana have three points. Y. Nepomnyashi, A. Firuzca and A. Giri are still scoreless.