Standings after round 8
| 1 | 1 | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | FRA | 2796 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
| 2 | 9 | Grischuk Alexander | RUS | 2742 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
| 3 | 4 | Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | AZE | 2766 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
| 4 | 7 | Adams Michael | ENG | 2751 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 12 | Jakovenko Dmitry | RUS | 2709 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| 6 | 3 | Nakamura Hikaru | USA | 2785 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
| 7 | 8 | Nepomniachtchi Ian | RUS | 2749 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
| 8 | 14 | Rapport Richard | HUN | 2692 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
| 9 | 10 | Li Chao B | CHN | 2720 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
| 10 | 5 | Ding Liren | CHN | 2760 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| 11 | 2 | Aronian Levon | ARM | 2785 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 12 | 17 | Hou Yifan | CHN | 2651 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 13 | 13 | Vallejo Pons Francisco | ESP | 2709 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 14 | 6 | Eljanov Pavel | UKR | 2759 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| 15 | 16 | Salem A.R. Saleh | UAE | 2656 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
| 16 | 18 | Hammer Jon Ludvig | NOR | 2628 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 17 | 11 | Tomashevsky Evgeny | RUS | 2711 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 18 | 15 | Riazantsev Alexander | RUS | 2671 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |