Leaders after 6 rounds
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | |
| 1 | GM | Ipatov Alexander | TUR | 2577 | 5.5 | 12515 |
| 2 | GM | Yu Yangyi | CHN | 2635 | 5.0 | 12548 |
| 3 | GM | Ter-Sahakyan Samvel | ARM | 2567 | 5.0 | 12413 |
| 4 | GM | Shimanov Aleksandr | RUS | 2596 | 5.0 | 12377 |
| 5 | IM | Grigoryan Karen H | ARM | 2529 | 5.0 | 12353 |
| 6 | IM | Debashis Das | IND | 2446 | 5.0 | 12000 |
| 7 | GM | Rapport Richard | HUN | 2605 | 5.0 | 11965 |
| 8 | FM | Wei Yi | CHN | 2418 | 4.5 | 12692 |
| 9 | GM | Salem A R Saleh | UAE | 2546 | 4.5 | 12543 |
| 10 | GM | Ding Liren | CHN | 2695 | 4.5 | 12368 |
| 11 | GM | Grandelius Nils | SWE | 2562 | 4.5 | 12210 |
| 12 | GM | Baron Tal | ISR | 2451 | 4.5 | 11973 |
| 13 | IM | Pavlidis Antonios | GRE | 2466 | 4.5 | 11932 |
| 14 | IM | Oparin Grigoriy | RUS | 2488 | 4.5 | 11844 |
| 15 | IM | Antipov Mikhail Al | RUS | 2462 | 4.5 | 11423 |
| 16 | FM | Schreiner Peter | AUT | 2444 | 4.5 | 11083 |
| 17 | GM | Cori Jorge | PER | 2487 | 4.0 | 12374 |
| 18 | IM | Grover Sahaj | IND | 2516 | 4.0 | 12348 |
| 19 | IM | Indjic Aleksandar | SRB | 2481 | 4.0 | 12314 |
| 20 | IM | Yilmaz Mustafa | TUR | 2543 | 4.0 | 12184 |
| 21 | GM | Zherebukh Yaroslav | UKR | 2629 | 4.0 | 12159 |
| 22 | IM | Heimann Andreas | GER | 2493 | 4.0 | 12030 |
| 23 | IM | Gao Rui | CHN | 2442 | 4.0 | 11991 |
| 24 | IM | Dimitrov Radoslav | BUL | 2424 | 4.0 | 11942 |
| 25 | Lapidus Mark | EST | 2129 | 4.0 | 11886 | |
| 26 | IM | Holt Conrad | USA | 2498 | 4.0 | 11818 |
| 27 | IM | Zhou Yang-Fan | ENG | 2430 | 4.0 | 11710 |
| 28 | IM | Bluebaum Matthias | GER | 2424 | 4.0 | 11536 |
| 29 | IM | Andersen Mads | DEN | 2464 | 4.0 | 11108 |
Full standings here: http://wjcc2012.chessdom.com/results-open/
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