In the eighth round of Pearl Spring Chess tournament at Nanjing , China , on Thursday World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria . With just two rounds to come in the six-player double round-robin tournament, Anand remains in joint second position with four and a half points. The lead position remains unchanged as the other two games of the day also ended in draws.With five and a half points, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen retained his lead and barring a debacle, he looks set to annex the title.Today, Carlsen was troubled by Chinese hopeful Wang Yue but eventually got a draw, while Etienne Bacrot of France settled for the peace treaty quite early against Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan .