Viswanathan Anand drew with overnight joint leader Hikaru Nakamura in 47 moves as Armenia’s Levon Aronian tamed Sergey Karjakin to lead after seven rounds of Norway Chess 2017 here on Wednesday.
The results:
Seventh round: Viswanathan Anand (3) drew with Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 4.5).
Vladimir Kramnik (Rus, 4) bt Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 2.5).
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra, 2.5) lost to Anish Giri (Ned, 4); Levon Aronian (Arm, 5) bt Sergey Karjakin (Rus, 3).
Wesley So (USA, 3.5) drew with Fabiano Caruana (USA, 3).
Eighth round pairings: Aronian-Anand; Nakamura-So; Lagrave-Kramnik; Carlsen-Karjakin; Giri-Caruana .