Grischuk wins again in Sunday's eighth round of the Blindfold tournament and now has 6/8.
Carlsen loses again with White, this time to Kramnik.
Peter Svidler (3) | RUS | 2750 | 1-0 | Ruslan Ponomariov (3) | UKR | 2748 |
Sergey Karjakin (4.5) | RUS | 2725 | 0-1 | Alexander Grischuk (5) | RUS | 2756 |
Vassily Ivanchuk (4.5) | UKR | 2748 | 0.5-0.5 | Leinier Dominguez Perez (1) | CUB | 2713 |
Jan Smeets (2.5) | NED | 2651 | 0.5-0.5 | Vugar Gashimov (3.5) | AZE | 2740 |
Magnus Carlsen (5) | NOR | 2813 | 0-1 | Vladimir Kramnik (3.5) | RUS | 2790 |
Levon Aronian (2.5) | ARM | 2782 | 0.5-0.5 | Boris Gelfand (4) | ISR | 2750 |
In the rapid event there were four draws and two White wins. Ivanchuk leads at rapidplay with 6/8 going into the second rest day.
Ruslan Ponomariov (2.5) | UKR | 2748 | 1-0 | Peter Svidler (4.5) | RUS | 2750 |
Alexander Grischuk (2.5) | RUS | 2756 | 0.5-0.5 | Sergey Karjakin (4) | RUS | 2725 |
Leinier Dominguez Perez (1.5) | CUB | 2713 | 0.5-0.5 | Vassily Ivanchuk (5.5) | UKR | 2748 |
Vugar Gashimov (3.5) | AZE | 2740 | 1-0 | Jan Smeets (1) | NED | 2651 |
Vladimir Kramnik (4.5) | RUS | 2790 | 0.5-0.5 | Magnus Carlsen (4.5) | NOR | 2813 |
Boris Gelfand (4.5) | ISR | 2750 | 0.5-0.5 | Levon Aronian (3.5) | ARM | 2782 |
Ivanchuk has 11 points and has one point more than Carlsen with three more days play remaining.
It's very tight between the group occupying second to eighth places.
Ranking | Seed | Name | Country | Rating | Rapidplay Total | Blindfold Total | Overall Total |
1 | 7 | Vassily Ivanchuk | UKR | 2748 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
2 | 1 | Magnus Carlsen | NOR | 2813 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
3= | 6 | Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2750 | 5 | 4.5 | 9.5 |
3= | 2 | Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2790 | 5 | 4.5 | 9.5 |
5= | 10 | Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 2725 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 9 |
5= | 4 | Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2756 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
7= | 5 | Peter Svidler | RUS | 2750 | 4.5 | 4 | 8.5 |
7= | 8 | Vugar Gashimov | AZE | 2740 | 4.5 | 4 | 8.5 |
9 | 3 | Levon Aronian | ARM | 2782 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
10 | 9 | Ruslan Ponomariov | UKR | 2748 | 3.5 | 3 | 6.5 |
11 | 12 | Jan Smeets | NED | 2651 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
12 | 11 | Leinier Dominguez Perez | CUB | 2713 | 2 | 1.5 | 3.5 |
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