Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian drew with Vassili Ivanchuk in the eighth round of Memorial Tal championship in Moscow.

Vladimir Kramnik-Peter Leko, Boris Gelfand-Viswanathan Anand, Alexander Morozevich-Peter Svidler games ended in a draw. Magnus Carlsen gained a victory over Ruslan Ponomariov.

After the eighth round the standings are as follows: Kramnik (5.5 pomits), Anand, Ivanchuk (5 points each), Carlsen (4.5), Gelfand, Aronian (4 points each), Ponomariov, Leko, Svidler (3 points each).

Levon Aronian will face Viswanathan Anand in the final round of the championship.