Standings after 8 rounds
| 1. | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2763 | 5½ |
| 2-3. | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2801 | 5 |
| 2-3. | Karjakin, Sergey | g | RUS | 2760 | 5 |
| 4-6. | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2771 | 4½ |
| 4-6. | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2741 | 4½ |
| 4-6. | Wang Hao | g | CHN | 2727 | 4½ |
| 7. | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2791 | 3½ |
| 8. | Shirov, Alexei | g | ESP | 2735 | 3 |
| 9. | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2741 | 2½ |
| 10. | Eljanov, Pavel | g | UKR | 2742 | 2 |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Karjakin is steadily improving… watch him go up and up!!! 🙂
We just watched Russia’s future first board beat Russia’s current first board. Well done!
Shakh reached his highest rating ever last game. Bravo!
Naka is the one improving.
Karjakin seems to be going sideways. But I would have to see a graph of his elo over time to be sure.
Go Shak!