Round 8 top board pairings:

Table White Flags Score Fed. Rating Black Flags Score Fed. Rating
1 GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian
5.0 RUS 2658 GM Grachev, Boris
5.0 RUS 2653
2 GM Le, Quang Liem
5.0 VIE 2647 GM Savchenko, Boris
5.0 RUS 2638
3 GM Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son
5.0 VIE 2616 GM Najer, Evgeniy
4.5 RUS 2665
4 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime
4.5 FRA 2730 GM Sasikiran, Krishnan
4.5 IND 2653
5 GM Bacrot, Etienne
4.5 FRA 2713 GM Timofeev, Artyom
4.5 RUS 2652
6 GM Naiditsch, Arkadij
4.5 GER 2687 GM Korobov, Anton
4.5 UKR 2648
7 GM Cheparinov, Ivan
4.5 BUL 2660 GM Bareev, Evgeny
4.5 RUS 2643
8 GM So, Wesley j 4.5 PHI 2656 GM Zhou, Jianchao
4.5 CHN 2632
9 GM Motylev, Alexander
4.0 RUS 2697 GM Amonatov, Farrukh
4.0 TJK 2634
10 GM Sargissian, Gabriel
4.0 ARM 2680 GM Rodshtein, Maxim
4.0 ISR 2622
11 GM Iturrizaga, Eduardo
4.0 VEN 2616 GM Moiseenko, Alexander
4.0 UKR 2677
12 GM Bu, Xiangzhi
4.0 CHN 2673 GM Bocharov, Dmitry
4.0 RUS 2594
13 GM Vescovi, Giovanni
4.0 BRA 2660 GM McShane, Luke J
4.0 ENG 2616
14 GM Dreev, Alexey
4.0 RUS 2650 GM Grigoriants, Sergey
4.0 RUS 2560
15 GM Khalifman, Alexander
4.0 RUS 2616 GM Pashikian, Arman
4.0 ARM 2647
16 GM Sjugirov, Sanan j 4.0 RUS 2610 GM Predojevic, Borki
4.0 BIH 2642
17 GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim
4.0 RUS 2642 GM Khairullin, Ildar
4.0 RUS 2605
18 GM Mamedov, Rauf
4.0 AZE 2640 GM Belov, Vladimir
4.0 RUS 2595
19 GM Potkin, Vladimir
3.5 RUS 2611 GM Kamsky, Gata
3.5 USA 2693
20 GM Safarli, Eltaj j 3.5 AZE 2594 GM Volokitin, Andrei
3.5 UKR 2692
21 GM Maletin, Pavel
3.5 RUS 2591 GM Van Wely, Loek
3.5 NED 2641
22 GM Kobalia, Mikhail
3.5 RUS 2637 GM Shabalov, Alexander
3.5 USA 2611
23 GM Hou, Yifan w 3.5 CHN 2590 GM Tregubov, Pavel V.
3.5 RUS 2628
24 GM Volkov, Sergey
3.5 RUS 2623 GM Melkumyan, Hrant
3.5 ARM 2583
25 GM Salgado Lopez, Ivan
3.5 ESP 2584 GM Andriasian, Zaven
3.5 ARM 2613
26 GM Smirin, Ilia
3.0 ISR 2668 GM Kosintseva, Tatiana w 3.5 RUS 2515

Full pairings here.

Female performance after 7 rounds:

Rank Name Flags Score Fed. M/F Rating TPR W-We 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
48 GM Hou, Yifan w 3.5 CHN F 2590 2589 -0.01 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½
51 GM Kosintseva, Tatiana w 3.5 RUS F 2515 2640 +1.18 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1
62 IM Kosintseva, Nadezhda w 3.0 RUS F 2533 2585 +0.47 1 ½ ½ 0 0 0 1
72 IM Javakhishvili, Lela w 2.5 GEO F 2493 2503 +0.06 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0
77 GM Sebag, Marie w 2.0 FRA F 2510 2446 -0.61 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 0 0
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