Standings after 6 rounds:
| 1. | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2741 | 4½ | |||||||||
| 2. | Short, Nigel |
g | ENG | 2685 | 3½ | |||||||||
| 3. | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | g | CUB | 2713 | 3 | |||||||||
| 4. | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | g | RUS | 2695 | 3 | |||||||||
| 5. | Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | g | CUB | 2668 | 2½ | |||||||||
| 6. | Alekseev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2700 | 1½ |
Group B
| 1. | Cordova, Emilio | g | PER | 2552 | 3½ | |||||||||
| 2. | Quesada Perez, Yuniesky | g | CUB | 2582 | 3½ | |||||||||
| 3. | Hernandez Carmenates, Holden | g | CUB | 2543 | 3 | |||||||||
| 4. | Khairullin, Ildar | g | RUS | 2617 | 3 | |||||||||
| 5. | Almeida Quintana, Omar | g | CUB | 2541 | 2½ | |||||||||
| 6. | Bachmann, Axel | g | PAR | 2563 | 2½ | |||||||||
| 7. | Potkin, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2634 | 2 | |||||||||
| 8. | Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynaldo | m | CUB | 2544 | 2 | |||||||||
| 9. | Nogueiras Santiago, Jesus | g | CUB | 2570 | 1½ | |||||||||
| 10. | Corrales Jimenez, Fidel | g | CUB | 2590 | 1½ |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Ivanchuk is King!
He’s great, but very unstable. If not this problem I agree he could be the champion!