After 4 rounds, there is no perfect score. 10 players are tied with 3.5 / 4.
Here are the leaders of the 8th Gibtelecom Chess Festival Masters (in red are the leading ladies at Gibraltar):
| Rank | Name | Flags | Score | Fed. | M/F | Rating | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GM Bacrot, Etienne | 3.5 | FRA | M | 2713 | |||||||
| 2 | GM Adams, Michael | 3.5 | ENG | M | 2694 | |||||||
| 3 | GM Fressinet, Laurent | 3.5 | FRA | M | 2670 | |||||||
| 4 | GM Fridman, Daniel | 3.5 | GER | M | 2654 | |||||||
| 5 | GM Gustafsson, Jan | 3.5 | GER | M | 2627 | |||||||
| 6 | GM Sandipan, Chanda | 3.5 | IND | M | 2622 | |||||||
| 7 | GM Koneru, Humpy | 3.5 | IND | F | 2614 | |||||||
| 8 | GM Edouard, Romain | 3.5 | FRA | M | 2608 | |||||||
| 9 | GM Felgaer, Ruben | 3.5 | ARG | M | 2591 | |||||||
| 10 | GM Geetha Narayanan Gopal | 3.5 | IND | M | 2584 | |||||||
| 11 | GM Movsesian, Sergei | 3.0 | SVK | M | 2708 | |||||||
| 12 | GM Vallejo Pons, Francisco | 3.0 | ESP | M | 2705 | |||||||
| 13 | GM Kamsky, Gata | 3.0 | USA | M | 2693 | |||||||
| 14 | GM Istratescu, Andrei | 3.0 | ROU | M | 2607 | |||||||
| 15 | GM Lopez Martinez, Josep |
3.0 | ESP | M | 2593 | |||||||
| 16 | GM Halkias, Stelios | 3.0 | GRE | M | 2566 | |||||||
| 17 | IM Lenderman, Alex | 3.0 | USA | M | 2560 | |||||||
| 18 | GM Lemos, Damian | 3.0 | ARG | M | 2556 | |||||||
| 19 | GM Maze, Sebastien | 3.0 | FRA | M | 2554 | |||||||
| 20 | GM Malakhatko, Vadim | 3.0 | BEL | M | 2549 | |||||||
| 21 | GM Cramling, Pia | 3.0 | SWE | F | 2528 | |||||||
| 22 | GM Naumann, Alexander | 3.0 | GER | M | 2525 | |||||||
| 23 | GM Speelman, Jon S | 3.0 | ENG | M | 2525 | |||||||
| 24 | GM Guliyev, Namig | 3.0 | AZE | M | 2516 | |||||||
| 25 | GM Dzagnidze, Nana | 3.0 | GEO | F | 2506 | |||||||
| 26 | IM Shankland, Samuel L | 3.0 | USA | M | 2491 | |||||||
| 27 | GM Carlsson, Pontus | 3.0 | SWE | M | 2476 | |||||||
| 28 | IM Harika, Dronavalli | 3.0 | IND | F | 2471 | |||||||
| 29 | IM Zatonskih, Anna | 3.0 | USA | F | 2466 | |||||||
| 30 | WGM Zhukova, Natalia | 3.0 | UKR | F | 2462 | |||||||
| 31 | IM Krush, Irina | 3.0 | USA | F | 2455 | |||||||
| 32 | GM Bellon Lopez, Juan Manuel | 3.0 | ESP | M | 2440 | |||||||
| 33 | IM Hirneise, Tobias | 3.0 | GER | M | 2421 | |||||||
| 34 | Battaglini, Gabriel | 3.0 | FRA | M | 2411 | |||||||
| 35 | IM Sarkar, Justin | 3.0 | USA | M | 2378 | |||||||
| 36 | IM Saravanan, V. | 3.0 | IND | M | 2356 | |||||||
| 37 | IM Sedina, Elena | 3.0 | ITA | F | 2335 | |||||||
| 38 | IM Zozulia, Anna | 3.0 | BEL | F | 2321 | |||||||
| 39 | Kantans, Toms | 3.0 | LAT | M | 2303 | |||||||
| 40 | Dasaolu, Adeoye | 3.0 | ENG | M | 2068 |
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