It's Mamedyarov with one round to go!

Three quick wins today including one by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (over Wang Hao) who now takes the lead in the 2010 Tal memorial in Moscow.
Sergey Karjakin won an incredible attacking game against Kramnik and is now equal second with Levon Aronian.

Round 8 (13th of November):

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	AZE	2763	1-0	Wang Hao	CHI	2727	36	Queen's Gambit Ragozin	White kept the greater activity after playing d4-d5 with his isolated queen's pawn. Black fell into a deadly pin and lost material.
Levon Aronian	ARM	2801	0.5-0.5	Alexander Grischuk	RUS	2771	28	Queen's Gambit Ragozin	Aronian broke with e3-e4 which led to complications where he couldn't find anything better than perpetual check.
Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2760	1-0	Vladimir Kramnik	RUS	2791	32	Petroff Defence	Karjakin sacrificed a piece to attack Black's kingside and was able to continued the attack even after regaining the material.
Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2741	0.5-0.5	Boris Gelfand	ISR	2741	44	Queen's Gambit Cambridge Springs	Gelfand eventually freed his position with ...c5 which led to mass liquidation and dry equality.
Alexei Shirov	ESP	2735	1-0	Pavel Eljanov	UKR	2742	25	Caro-Kann	Shirov opened up lines and obtained dangerous attacking chances against Black's uncastled king.

Shirov scored his first win and moves off the bottom whereas Karjakin's amazing win over Kramnik brings him up to equal second with Aronian.

The table after eight rounds is as follows:

Standing	Name	Country	Rating	World rank	Age	+	=	-	Points
1	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	AZE	2763	8	25	3	5	0	5.5
2=	Levon Aronian	ARM	2801	3	28	2	6	0	5
2=	Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2760	9	20	2	6	0	5
4=	Alexander Grischuk	RUS	2771	6	27	1	7	0	4.5
4=	Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2741	15	23	1	7	0	4.5
4=	Wang Hao	CHI	2727	18	21	2	5	1	4.5
7	Vladimir Kramnik	RUS	2791	4	35	1	5	2	3.5
8	Alexei Shirov	ESP	2735	16	38	1	4	3	3
9	Boris Gelfand	ISR	2741	14	42	1	3	4	2.5
10	Pavel Eljanov	UKR	2742	13	27	1	2	5	2

As a reminder the results of the earlier rounds were as follows:

Round 1 (5th of November):

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	AZE	2763	0.5-0.5	Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2741	43	Queen's Gambit Declined Lasker
Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2760	1-0	Boris Gelfand	ISR	2741	57	Petroff Defence
Alexei Shirov	ESP	2735	0-1	Wang Hao	CHI	2727	51	French Defence
Levon Aronian	ARM	2801	1-0	Vladimir Kramnik	RUS	2791	41	Queen's Gambit Ragozin
Alexander Grischuk	RUS	2771	1-0	Pavel Eljanov	UKR	2742	58	Catalan/Bogoljubov

Round 2 (6th of November):

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	AZE	2763	0.5-0.5	Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2760	39	Nimzoindian Defence 4.g3
Boris Gelfand	ISR	2741	1-0	Alexei Shirov	ESP	2735	61	Slav Defence
Wang Hao	CHI	2727	0.5-0.5	Levon Aronian	ARM	2801	39	Catalan Opening
Vladimir Kramnik	RUS	2791	0.5-0.5	Alexander Grischuk	RUS	2771	39	Queen's Gambit Declined
Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2741	1-0	Pavel Eljanov	UKR	2742	40	Catalan/Bogoljubov

Round 3 (7th of November):

Alexei Shirov	ESP	2735	0-1	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	AZE	2763	71	Spanish Breyer
Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2760	0.5-0.5	Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2741	70	Spanish Berlin
Levon Aronian	ARM	2801	1-0	Boris Gelfand	ISR	2741	43	Catalan Opening
Alexander Grischuk	RUS	2771	0.5-0.5	Wang Hao	CHI	2727	22	Slav Defence
Pavel Eljanov	UKR	2742	0-1	Vladimir Kramnik	RUS	2791	51	Nimzoindian Defence 4.Qc2

Round 4 (8th of November):

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	AZE	2763	0.5-0.5	Levon Aronian	ARM	2801	35	Slav Defence
Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2760	0.5-0.5	Alexei Shirov	ESP	2735	63	Spanish Neo-Archangel
Boris Gelfand	ISR	2741	0.5-0.5	Alexander Grischuk	RUS	2771	43	Catalan/Bogljubov
Wang Hao	CHI	2727	0.5-0.5	Pavel Eljanov	UKR	2742	79	English Opening
Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2741	0.5-0.5	Vladimir Kramnik	RUS	2791	33	Petroff Defence

Round 5 (10th of November):

Alexander Grischuk	RUS	2771	0.5-0.5	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	AZE	2763	49	Anti-Grünfeld
Levon Aronian	ARM	2801	0.5-0.5	Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2760	56	Nimzoindian with g3
Alexei Shirov	ESP	2735	0.5-0.5	Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2741	79	Spanish Berlin
Pavel Eljanov	UKR	2742	1-0	Boris Gelfand	ISR	2741	53	Semi-Slav Meran
Vladimir Kramnik	RUS	2791	0.5-0.5	Wang Hao	CHI	2727	34	Semi-Tarrasch

Round 6 (11th of November):

Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2741	0.5-0.5	Wang Hao	CHI	2727	25	French Steinitz
Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2760	0.5-0.5	Alexander Grischuk	RUS	2771	46	Sicilian Najdorf
Alexei Shirov	ESP	2735	0.5-0.5	Levon Aronian	ARM	2801	33	Spanish Marshall
Boris Gelfand	ISR	2741	0.5-0.5	Vladimir Kramnik	RUS	2791	32	Catalan/Bogoljubov
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	AZE	2763	1-0	Pavel Eljanov	UKR	2742	49	Slav Defence

Round 7 (12th of November):

Levon Aronian	ARM	2801	0.5-0.5	Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2741	60	King's Indian g3 Panno
Vladimir Kramnik	RUS	2791	0.5-0.5	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	AZE	2763	51	Grünfeld Exchange Be3
Wang Hao	CHI	2727	1-0	Boris Gelfand	ISR	2741	75	Semi-Slav Defence Marshall
Pavel Eljanov	UKR	2742	0.5-0.5	Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2760	56	Catalan Opening
Alexander Grischuk	RUS	2771	0.5-0.5	Alexei Shirov	ESP	2735	88	Queen's Gambit Cambridge Springs

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