Round 9 top board pairings:
| 1 | GM Pashikian, Arman | 6.0 | ARM | 2621 | GM Bacrot, Etienne | 5.5 | FRA | 2722 | |||
| 2 | GM Moiseenko, Alexander | 5.5 | UKR | 2676 | GM Zhou, Weiqi | 5.5 | CHN | 2542 | |||
| 3 | GM Kurnosov, Igor | 5.5 | RUS | 2602 | GM Predojevic, Borki | 5.5 | BIH | 2650 | |||
| 4 | GM Zhigalko, Sergei | 5.5 | BLR | 2587 | GM Potkin, Vladimir | 5.5 | RUS | 2613 | |||
| 5 | GM Sargissian, Gabriel | 5.0 | ARM | 2677 | GM Zhou, Jianchao | 5.5 | CHN | 2612 | |||
| 6 | GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny | 5.0 | RUS | 2664 | GM Khairullin, Ildar | 5.0 | RUS | 2574 | |||
| 7 | GM Aleksandrov, Aleksej | 5.0 | BLR | 2636 | IM Kosintseva, Tatiana | w | 5.0 | RUS | 2497 | ||
| 8 | GM Riazantsev, Alexander | 5.0 | RUS | 2634 | IM Yudin, Sergei | 5.0 | RUS | 2562 |
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