Round 8 matchups:
| nom | Élo | Rés. | nom | Élo | ||
| GM | Radjabov Teimour | 2744 | – | GM | Carlsen Magnus | 2815 |
| GM | Ivanchuk Vassily | 2776 | – | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | 2662 |
| GM | Nakamura Hikaru | 2774 | – | GM | Karjakin Sergey | 2776 |
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Battle of the young guns: Radjabov-Carlsen, Nakamura-Karjakin
Clearly Nakamura is playing best chess of all the players in Bazna. He’s just unlucky so far.