Rank (of leaders) after round 7
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | FED | Pts | |||||
| 1 | 14 | GM | Volokitin Andrei | 2671 | UKR | 6 | ||||
| 2 | 20 | GM | Inarkiev Ernesto | 2656 | RUS | 5½ | ||||
| 3 | 98 | GM | Sjugirov Sanan | 2562 | RUS | 5½ | ||||
| 4 | 53 | GM | Meier Georg | 2608 | GER | 5½ | ||||
| 5 | 27 | GM | Bocharov Dmitry | 2647 | RUS | 5½ | ||||
| 6 | 19 | GM | Sokolov Ivan | 2657 | NED | 5½ | ||||
| 7 | 33 | GM | Navara David | 2638 | CZE | 5½ | ||||
| 8 | 15 | GM | Jobava Baadur | 2669 | GEO | 5½ | ||||
| 9 | 21 | GM | Grachev Boris | 2655 | RUS | 5½ | ||||
| 10 | 51 | GM | Papaioannou Ioannis | 2609 | GRE | 5½ |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Where’s Akobian and Shulman?
maybe the fact that it is a EUROPEAN championship explains the total absence of American players 🙂 (not that otherwise they would necessarily would be among the first… Akopian and Vallejo-Pons both above 2700 do not do that well)