Standings after 8 rounds:
| 1. | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2725 | 5½ | |||||||||||||
| 2. | Karjakin, Sergey | g | UKR | 2739 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| 3. | Riazantsev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2674 | 4½ | |||||||||||||
| 4. | Naiditsch, Arkadij | g | GER | 2686 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 5. | Vitiugov, Nikita | g | RUS | 2707 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 6. | Jobava, Baadur | g | GEO | 2715 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 7. | Sutovsky, Emil | g | ISR | 2661 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 8. | Bologan, Viktor | g | MDA | 2668 | 3½ | with 1 game to play |
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| 9. | Sokolov, Ivan | g | BIH | 2654 | 3½ | |||||||||||||
| 10. | Onischuk, Alexander | g | USA | 2699 | 3 | with 1 game to play |
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| 11. | Motylev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2704 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 12. | Rublevsky, Sergei | g | RUS | 2704 | 3 |
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