Leaders after 8 rounds:
| 1 | GM | Rozentalis Eduardas | LTU | 2611 | 6,0 | 30,0 | 0,0 | |
| 2 | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | POL | 2637 | 6,0 | 28,0 | 0,0 | |
| 3 | IM | Ponkratov Pavel | RUS | 2575 | 6,0 | 27,0 | 0,0 | |
| 4 | GM | McShane Luke | ENG | 2615 | 6,0 | 27,0 | 0,0 | |
| 5 | GM | Lysyj Igor | RUS | 2609 | 6,0 | 26,5 | 0,0 | |
| 6 | IM | Grandelius Nils | SWE | 2540 | 5,5 | 25,5 | 0,0 | |
| 7 | GM | Ionov Sergey | RUS | 2545 | 5,5 | 25,5 | 0,0 | |
| 8 | GM | Popov Valerij | RUS | 2588 | 5,5 | 25,5 | 0,0 | |
| 9 | GM | Gleizerov Evgeny | RUS | 2566 | 5,5 | 24,5 | 0,0 | |
| 10 | GM | Handke Florian | GER | 2513 | 5,5 | 24,5 | 0,0 | |
| 11 | GM | Brynell Stellan | SWE | 2472 | 5,5 | 23,0 | 0,0 | |
| 12 | GM | Shimanov Aleksandr | RUS | 2535 | 5,0 | 28,0 | 0,0 | |
| 13 | GM | Ivanov Sergey | RUS | 2530 | 5,0 | 26,5 | 0,0 | |
| 14 | GM | Miezis Normunds | LAT | 2530 | 5,0 | 25,0 | 0,0 | |
| 15 | IM | Gorovykh Eduard | RUS | 2410 | 5,0 | 22,0 | 0,0 | |
| 16 | IM | Semcesen Daniel | SWE | 2460 | 5,0 | 22,0 | 0,0 | |
| 17 | GM | Berczes David | HUN | 2512 | 5,0 | 20,5 | 0,0 | |
| 18 | IM | Richter Michael | GER | 2412 | 4,5 | 24,0 | 0,0 | |
| 19 | GM | Cramling Pia | SWE | 2525 | 4,5 | 23,0 | 0,0 | |
| IM | Lauber Arnd | GER | 2503 | 4,5 | 23,0 | 0,0 | ||
| 21 | IM | Gavrilov Alexei | RUS | 2481 | 4,5 | 22,0 | 0,0 | |
| 22 | GM | Karlsson Lars | SWE | 2491 | 4,5 | 22,0 | 0,0 | |
| 23 | WIM | Molchanova Tatjana | RUS | 2368 | 4,5 | 20,5 | 0,0 | |
| 24 | GM | Hammer Jon Ludvig | NOR | 2588 | 4,5 | 20,5 | 0,0 | |
| 25 | IM | Berczes Csaba | HUN | 2379 | 4,5 | 20,5 | 0,0 | |
| 26 | IM | Cramling Dan | SWE | 2408 | 4,5 | 20,0 | 0,0 | |
| 27 | FM | Kauppila Osmo | FIN | 2279 | 4,5 | 18,0 | 0,0 | |
| 28 | Niemi Mikko | FIN | 2219 | 4,5 | 17,0 | 0,0 |
Full standings here.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Unfortunately, they’ll all get a small cut because of many ways tie for 1st.