Viswanathan Anand drew his final round game against Norwegian prodigy Magnus Carlsen to finish tied second in the Sparkassen chess tournament here.
World champion Vladimir Kramnik won his eighth title in Dortmund when he signed the peace pact with compatriot Evgeny Alekseev in the last game of the seven-round event.
Hungarian GM Peter Leko tried to grab the second spot but could not crack the defence of Azerbaijani GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, while in another drawn game, Arkadij Naiditsch failed to lift himself from the bottom spot as he split point with Israel’s Boris Gelfand.
Anand played the Slav Defence against Carlsen and obtained a roughly equal position from the opening. After the exchange of queens, Carlsen had a slight edge due to his bishop pair but Anand set up a safe defensive formation.
The players agreed to split the point on the 39th move.
Final standings: Vladimir Kramnik (Rus, 5) 1; Viswanathan Anand (Ind, 4), Peter Leko (Hun, 4), Evgeny Alekseev (Rus, 4) 2; Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze, 3.5) 5; Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 3) 6; Boris Gelfand (Isr, 2.5) 7; Arkadij Naiditsch (Ger, 2) 8.