Leaders after 8 rounds:
| Rank | Name | Flags | Score | Fed. | M/F | Rating | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GM Istratescu, Andrei | 6.5 | ROU | M | 2624 | |||||||||||
| 2 | GM Hebden, Mark L | 6.5 | ENG | M | 2522 | |||||||||||
| 3 | GM Drozdovskij, Yuri | 6.0 | UKR | M | 2625 | |||||||||||
| 4 | GM Hracek, Zbynek | 6.0 | CZE | M | 2624 | |||||||||||
| 5 | GM Edouard, Romain | 6.0 | FRA | M | 2620 | |||||||||||
| 6 | GM Howell, David W L | 6.0 | ENG | M | 2597 | |||||||||||
| 7 | GM Gormally, Daniel W | 6.0 | ENG | M | 2479 | |||||||||||
| 8 | GM Arkell, Keith C | 5.5 | ENG | M | 2464 | |||||||||||
| 9 | IM Breder, Dennis | 5.5 | GER | M | 2427 | |||||||||||
| 10 | WGM Zdebskaja, Natalia | w | 5.5 | UKR | F | 2408 | ||||||||||
| 11 | IM Ansell, Simon T | 5.5 | ENG | M | 2387 | |||||||||||
| 12 | FM Strunski, Andreas | 5.5 | GER | M | 2386 | |||||||||||
| 13 | IM Bates, Richard A | 5.5 | ENG | M | 2383 | |||||||||||
| 14 | FM Eames, Robert S | 5.5 | ENG | M | 2276 | |||||||||||
| 15 | Mitchell, Martin | 5.5 | SCO | M | 2195 |
Full standings here.
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