Leaders after 7 rounds:
| Rank | Name | Flags | Score | Fed. | M/F | Rating | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GM Drozdovskij, Yuri | 5.5 | UKR | M | 2625 | ||||||||||
| 2 | GM Hracek, Zbynek | 5.5 | CZE | M | 2624 | ||||||||||
| 3 | GM Istratescu, Andrei | 5.5 | ROU | M | 2624 | ||||||||||
| 4 | GM Edouard, Romain | 5.5 | FRA | M | 2620 | ||||||||||
| 5 | GM Howell, David W L | 5.5 | ENG | M | 2597 | ||||||||||
| 6 | GM Hebden, Mark L | 5.5 | ENG | M | 2522 | ||||||||||
| 7 | IM Ansell, Simon T | 5.5 | ENG | M | 2387 | ||||||||||
| 8 | GM Gormally, Daniel W | 5.0 | ENG | M | 2479 | ||||||||||
| 9 | GM Arkell, Keith C | 5.0 | ENG | M | 2464 | ||||||||||
| 10 | IM Philippe, Christophe | 5.0 | FRA | M | 2430 | ||||||||||
| 11 | IM Greet, Andrew N | 5.0 | ENG | M | 2423 | ||||||||||
| 12 | WGM Zdebskaja, Natalia | w | 5.0 | UKR | F | 2408 | |||||||||
| 13 | IM Bates, Richard A | 5.0 | ENG | M | 2383 |
Full standings here.
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