Armenia's Levon Aronian and Samuel Sevian representing the United States will play tiebreakers after drawing their respective games against Hou Yifan and Li Chao, both from China, in round 2 of the World Chess Cup.
Meanwhile, reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave have already secured their places in round 3.
Aronian won the Stavanger-hosted Norway Chess tournament in June, 2017, also snatching victory at the Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz tournament two months later.
