Here are the matchups for critical round 8:

1 GM SERGEY KUDRIN – GM ALEX ONISCHUK
2 GM BORIS GULKO – GM ALEX SHABALOV
3 GM GREG KAIDANOV – GM ALEX IVANOV
4 GM JULIO BECERRA – GM JAAN EHLVEST
5 GM EUGENE PERELSHTEYN – GM YURY SHULMAN
6 GM DMITRY GUREVICH – GM HIKARU NAKAMURA
7 GM MELIK KHACHIYAN – GM ILDAR IBRAGIMOV
8 GM ALEX STRIPUNSKY – FM MICHAEL LANGER
9 FM RAY ROBSON – GM VARUZHAN AKOBIAN
10 GM ALEX YERMOLINSKY – IM IRINA KRUSH
11 IM ENRICO SEVILLANO – IM MICHAEL MULYAR
12 IM JOSHUA FRIEDEL – FM ROBERT HESS
13 FM JOE BRADFORD – IM JAY BONIN
14 GM WALTER BROWNE – IM DAVID PRUESS
15 IM RON BURNETT – FM MOVSES MOVSISYAN
16 WFM CHOUCH AIRAPETIAN – IM JUSTIN SARKAR
17 IM BRYAN SMITH – TOM BRAUNLICH
18 WFM IRYNA ZENYUK – MICHAEL AIGNER

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