Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian are still tied for first place after eight rounds at the FIDE Candidates' Tournament in London. The leaders of the tournament faced each other over the board on Sunday and drew a Catalan game in 41 moves. Vladimir Kramnik, who beat his compatriot Peter Svidler in a Grünfeld, is now one point behind the two. Like Kramnik, Boris Gelfand won his first game of the tournament. The Israeli defeated Teimour Radjabov by adopting the strong positional concept 13...e5! in an English game. For the third time already in this tournament Vassily Ivanchuk lost on time, in this round against Alexander Grischuk.

