The first cycle of the blitz portion of the Leuven rapid & blitz event is over, and the status quo was essentially maintained at the top. Magnus Carlsen led by Wesley So by a point, and led Levon Aronian and Viswanathan Anand by another point. Nine blitz games later, and Carlsen still leads So by a point, while Aronian got half a point closer and Anand fell another half a point further behind. (After that, the closest pursuers are another two points behind and - barring something extraordinary - out of the race for a spot in the top three.)