Leaders after Round 7
| Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Club/City | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
| 1 | 1 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2605 | 7.0 | 31.0 | 26.5 | 34.50 | |
| 2 | 15 | IM | Das Arghyadip | IND | 2459 | 6.0 | 29.5 | 25.5 | 28.25 | |
| 3 | 11 | GM | Kunte Abhijit | IND | 2483 | 6.0 | 28.0 | 24.0 | 26.50 | |
| 4 | 25 | IM | Ravi Teja S. | IND | 2403 | 6.0 | 27.0 | 23.5 | 25.75 | |
| 5 | 10 | GM | Deepan Chakkravarthy J. | IND | 2497 | 6.0 | 26.5 | 23.0 | 25.00 | |
| 6 | 4 | GM | Lalith Babu M.R. | IND | 2563 | 5.5 | 31.5 | 27.5 | 25.00 | |
| 7 | 36 | IM | Akash G | IND | 2354 | 5.5 | 30.0 | 26.0 | 24.75 | |
| 8 | 3 | GM | Sengupta Deep | IND | 2571 | 5.5 | 30.0 | 26.0 | 24.25 | |
| 9 | 22 | IM | Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R | IND | 2420 | 5.5 | 29.0 | 25.0 | 23.50 | |
| 10 | 9 | GM | Rahman Ziaur | BAN | 2500 | 5.5 | 28.0 | 24.0 | 24.25 | |
| 11 | 7 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | IND | 2504 | 5.5 | 27.5 | 23.5 | 24.00 | |
| 12 | 27 | Vignesh Nr | IND | 2399 | 5.5 | 27.5 | 23.5 | 22.25 | ||
| 13 | 28 | GM | Sriram Jha | IND | 2396 | 5.5 | 26.5 | 23.5 | 21.75 | |
| 14 | 29 | IM | Krishna C.R.G. | IND | 2393 | 5.5 | 26.5 | 23.0 | 23.25 | |
| 15 | 13 | IM | Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan | IND | 2462 | 5.5 | 26.5 | 22.5 | 23.00 | |
| 16 | 34 | IM | Nitin S. | IND | 2357 | 5.5 | 25.5 | 23.0 | 19.75 | |
| 17 | 18 | IM | Padmini Rout | IND | 2441 | 5.5 | 25.5 | 22.0 | 21.50 | |
| 18 | 98 | Siva Mahadevan | IND | 2125 | 5.5 | 25.0 | 22.0 | 18.75 | ||
| 19 | 20 | IM | Rathnakaran K. | IND | 2424 | 5.5 | 24.5 | 21.5 | 21.00 | |
| 20 | 6 | GM | Grover Sahaj | IND | 2509 | 5.0 | 31.0 | 27.5 | 23.00 | |
| 21 | 8 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | IND | 2502 | 5.0 | 30.5 | 26.5 | 21.50 | |
| 22 | 21 | IM | Himanshu Sharma | IND | 2420 | 5.0 | 29.5 | 25.5 | 21.25 | |
| 23 | 48 | FM | K. Praneeth Surya | IND | 2305 | 5.0 | 28.5 | 25.0 | 18.00 | |
| 24 | 14 | GM | Ankit R. Rajpara | IND | 2461 | 5.0 | 28.5 | 24.5 | 21.50 | |
| 25 | 113 | Shailesh Dravid | IND | 2086 | 5.0 | 28.5 | 24.5 | 21.00 | ||
| 26 | 76 | Sekar B | IND | 2194 | 5.0 | 28.0 | 25.0 | 19.50 | ||
| 27 | 44 | Sanjay N. | IND | 2310 | 5.0 | 27.5 | 24.0 | 19.75 | ||
| 28 | 56 | Krishna Teja N | IND | 2263 | 5.0 | 27.5 | 24.0 | 19.25 | ||
| 29 | 16 | GM | Murshed Niaz | BAN | 2457 | 5.0 | 27.5 | 23.5 | 20.00 | |
| 30 | 38 | FM | Van Der Nat Nicholas | RSA | 2348 | 5.0 | 27.0 | 23.5 | 19.50 | |
| 31 | 116 | Jayakumaar S | IND | 2072 | 5.0 | 25.5 | 22.5 | 19.00 | ||
| 32 | 23 | GM | Laxman R.R. | IND | 2417 | 5.0 | 25.5 | 22.0 | 19.75 | |
| 33 | 55 | Hemant Sharma (del) | IND | 2266 | 5.0 | 25.5 | 22.0 | 19.50 | ||
| 34 | 26 | IM | Akshat Khamparia | IND | 2401 | 5.0 | 25.0 | 22.0 | 18.00 | |
| 35 | 86 | Lokesh N. | IND | 2163 | 5.0 | 25.0 | 22.0 | 17.50 |