Ranking after 7 rounds
| 1 | GM | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | 2773 | FRA | 4.5 | 2894 | ||||
| 2 | GM | Grischuk, Alexander | 2747 | RUS | 4 | 2832 | ||||
| 2 | GM | Aronian, Levon | 2788 | ARM | 4 | 2841 | ||||
| 2 | GM | Carlsen, Magnus | 2834 | NOR | 4 | 2830 | ||||
| 2 | GM | Giri, Anish | 2784 | NED | 4 | 2831 | ||||
| 6 | GM | Caruana, Fabiano | 2787 | USA | 3.5 | 2789 | ||||
| 6 | GM | Adams, Michael | 2737 | ENG | 3.5 | 2792 | ||||
| 6 | GM | Nakamura, Hikaru | 2793 | USA | 3.5 | 2780 | ||||
| 9 | GM | Anand, Viswanathan | 2796 | IND | 2.5 | 2680 | ||||
| 10 | GM | Topalov, Veselin | 2803 | BUL | 1.5 | 2543 |