Armenia's Levon Aronian grabbed the sole lead at Norway Chess tournament on Wednesday, June 14 after defeating Sergey Karjakin of Russia.
In another game, Vladimir Kramnik beat Magnus Carlsen and is now only 6.4 points behind the world number one in the live ratings.
In a third match, Anish Giri defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, while Viswanathan Anand and Hikaru Nakamura drew.
The pairings for round eight on Thursday are Carlsen-Karjakin, Aronian-Anand, MVL-Kramnik, Nakamura-So, and Giri-Caruana.
