Standings after 5 rounds
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | |
| 1 | GM | Short Nigel D | ENG | 2658 | 5.0 | 3317 |
| 2 | GM | Ivanchuk Vassily | UKR | 2764 | 4.5 | 2916 |
| 3 | GM | Fridman Daniel | GER | 2655 | 4.5 | 2880 |
| 4 | GM | Sengupta Deep | IND | 2530 | 4.0 | 2801 |
| 5 | GM | Adams Michael | ENG | 2723 | 4.0 | 2767 |
| 6 | GM | Roiz Michael | ISR | 2649 | 4.0 | 2734 |
| 7 | GM | Akobian Varuzhan | USA | 2618 | 4.0 | 2724 |
| 8 | GM | Kacheishvili Giorgi | GEO | 2585 | 4.0 | 2716 |
| IM | Kosintseva Nadezhda | RUS | 2552 | 4.0 | 2716 | |
| 10 | GM | Gopal Geetha Narayanan | IND | 2597 | 4.0 | 2698 |
| 11 | GM | Ikonnikov Vyacheslav | RUS | 2580 | 4.0 | 2626 |
| 12 | GM | Mikhalevski Victor | ISR | 2579 | 4.0 | 2535 |
| 13 | GM | Rapport Richard | HUN | 2531 | 3.5 | 2742 |
| 14 | GM | Korchnoi Viktor | SUI | 2544 | 3.5 | 2741 |
| 15 | GM | Buhmann Rainer | GER | 2572 | 3.5 | 2697 |
| 16 | GM | Kulaots Kaido | EST | 2577 | 3.5 | 2685 |
| 17 | GM | Sasikiran Krishnan | IND | 2690 | 3.5 | 2684 |
| 18 | GM | Vallejo Pons Francisco | ESP | 2698 | 3.5 | 2668 |
| 19 | GM | Harikrishna Pentala | IND | 2667 | 3.5 | 2644 |
| 20 | GM | Lafuente Pablo | ARG | 2551 | 3.5 | 2636 |
| 21 | GM | Sandipan Chanda | IND | 2641 | 3.5 | 2633 |
| 22 | GM | Kotronias Vasilios | GRE | 2599 | 3.5 | 2632 |
| GM | Dzagnidze Nana | GEO | 2550 | 3.5 | 2632 | |
| 24 | GM | Caruana Fabiano | ITA | 2721 | 3.5 | 2616 |
| 25 | GM | Bologan Viktor | MDA | 2693 | 3.5 | 2603 |
| 26 | GM | Georgiev Kiril | BUL | 2669 | 3.5 | 2598 |
| 27 | GM | Berg Emanuel | SWE | 2627 | 3.5 | 2589 |
| 28 | GM | Onischuk Alexander | USA | 2689 | 3.5 | 2583 |
| 29 | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 2678 | 3.5 | 2577 |
| 30 | GM | Edouard Romain | FRA | 2634 | 3.5 | 2528 |
| 31 | IM | Melia Salome | GEO | 2449 | 3.5 | 2521 |
| 32 | GM | Speelman Jon S | ENG | 2524 | 3.5 | 2509 |
| 33 | GM | Lemos Damian | ARG | 2553 | 3.5 | 2499 |
| 34 | GM | El Debs Felipe De Cresce | BRA | 2499 | 3.5 | 2498 |
| 35 | IM | Harika Dronavalli | IND | 2520 | 3.5 | 2484 |
| 36 | GM | Soffer Ram | ISR | 2489 | 3.5 | 2471 |
| 37 | GM | Gallagher Joseph G | SUI | 2501 | 3.5 | 2455 |
| 38 | IM | Vaibhav Suri | IND | 2421 | 3.5 | 2452 |
| 39 | IM | Bellaiche Anthony | FRA | 2458 | 3.5 | 2450 |
| 40 | IM | Das Arghyadip | IND | 2479 | 3.5 | 2426 |
| 41 | GM | Fier Alexandr | BRA | 2571 | 3.5 | 2386 |
| 42 | IM | Battaglini Gabriel | FRA | 2437 | 3.5 | 2372 |
| 43 | IM | Vernay Clovis | FRA | 2446 | 3.5 | 2367 |
| 44 | GM | Cabrera Alexis | ESP | 2518 | 3.5 | 2352 |
| 45 | Szuper Paul | USA | 2174 | 3.5 | 2341 |
Full standings here.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Nadezhda Kosintseva wil be a GM soon, seeing her rating.
Btw Short won from both sisters already..
Good to see that Mr. Short is still showing them how it’s done.