Norway Chess, Round 8: Aronian is in the Lead
In the 8th round of Norway Chess 2016 Levon Aronian won his game against World Champion Magnus Carlsen. Due to this result Aronian joins Carlsen on the top of table and before the last round pair leads the table with 5 points out of 8. Topalov, Kramnik and Vachier Lagrave are just half point behinf the leaders.
In the last round Aronian’s opponent will be Harikrishna, and Carlsen will play against Eljanov.
Norway Chess,
Stavagner, Norway
Round 8
Anish Giri – Nils Grandelius 0.5:0.5
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave – Veselin Topalov 0.5:0.5
Vladimir Kramnik – Pendyala Harikrishna 1:0
Levon Aronian – Magnus Carlsen 1:0
Pavel Eljanov – Li Chao 0:1
Tournament status
Aronian, Carlsen – 5
Vachier-Lagrave, Topalov, Kramnik – 4.5
Li Chao, Harikrishna – 4
Giri – 3.5
Eljanov – 3
Grandelius – 2
By Ani Gabuzyan
