Aronyan`s next draw.

Vassily Ivanchuk won the only decisive game of 7th Round of the Tal Memorial when he beat Hikaru Nakamura whose strange opening idea left him with a very difficult position to play.

It all seemed a bit of a self-inflicted defeat on Nakamura's part. Peter Svidler put the squeeze on Ian Nepomniachtchi who seemed to speed his way from a level position to trouble before he put the breaks on and held the game. For whatever reason Viswanathan Anand has barely contributed to the event and today his cautious approach against Magnus Carlsen's Gruenfeld led to a quick draw. Levon Aronian held Sergey Karjakin fairly comfortably in a Ruy Lopez. Boris Gelfand had something against Vladimir Kramnik but never enough to win. Round 8: Anand-Nakamura, Ivanchuk-Gelfand, Kramnik-Karjakin, Aronian-Svidler, Carlsen-Nepomniachtchi.