Gashimov the only winner

Vugar Gashimov

In the eighth round there were six draws, plus a win by Vugar Gashimov over Anish Giri in an exciting Sicilian Najdorf. The leader board thus remains essentially unchanged. In Group B, Alexander Motylev has cut Pentala Harikrishna's lead to half-a-point, while in Group C Hans Tikkanen has finally caught Maxim Turov, and now shares the lead.

The eighth round details:

Group-A:

White	Country	Rating	Result	Black	Country	Rating	Moves	Opening
Veselin Topalov	BUL	2770	½-½	Levon Aronian	ARM	2835	28	Queen's Gambit 5.Bf4
Fabiano Caruana	ITA	2736	½-½	Vassily Ivanchuk	UKR	2766	21	French Defence (Burn)
Anish Giri	NED	2714	0-1	Vugar Gashimov	AZE	2761	38	Sicilian Najdorf
David Navara	CZE	2712	½-½	Loek Van Wely	NED	2692	62	Sicilian Scheveningen
Teimour Radjabov	AZE	2773	½-½	Magnus Carlsen	NOR	2835	44	Neo-Grünfeld
Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2769	½-½	Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2759	31	Classical Dutch
Boris Gelfand	ISR	2739	½-½	Gata Kamsky	USA	2732	44	Chebanenko Slav

The points tally:

Seed	Name	Age	FED	Elo	World rank	Points
1	Magnus Carlsen	21	NOR	2835	1	5.5
2	Levon Aronian	29	ARM	2805	2	5.5
3	Teimour Radjabov	24	AZE	2773	5	5
4	Veselin Topalov	36	BUL	2770	6	3.5
5	Sergey Karjakin	22	RUS	2769	7	3.5
6	Vassily Ivanchuk	42	UKR	2766	8	4.5
7	Vugar Gashimov	25	AZE	2761	10	3
8	Hikaru Nakamura	24	USA	2759	12	4.5
9	Boris Gelfand	43	ISR	2739	16	3
10	Fabiano Caruana	19	ITA	2736	17	4.5
11	Gata Kamsky	37	USA	2732	20	3.5
12	Anish Giri	17	NED	2714	28	4
13	David Navara	26	CZE	2712	30	2
14	Loek Van Wely	39	NED	2692	54	4

No major changes before the rest day.

Round 7:

Group-B:

White	Country	Rating	Result	Black	Country	Rating
Alexander Motylev	RUS	2677	1-0	Daniele Vocaturo	ITA	2545
Kateryna Lahno	UKR	2557	0-1	Erwin L'Ami	NED	2606
Sipke Ernst	NED	2606	½-½	Illya Nyzhnyk	UKR	2568
Pentala Harikrishna	IND	2665	½-½	Sergei Tiviakov	NED	2677
Harika Dronavalli	IND	2516	½-½	Viktorija Cmilyte	LTU	2503
Dimitri Reinderman	NED	2581	0-1	Vladimir Potkin	RUS	2684
Lazaro Bruzon	CUB	2691	1-0	Jan Timman	NED	2568

The points so far:

Rk	Name	Age	FED	Elo	World rank	Points
1	Lazaro Bruzon Batista	29	CUB	2691	55	5
2	Vladimir Potkin	29	RUS	2684	65	3.5
3	Sergei Tiviakov	38	NED	2677	70	3.5
4	Alexander Motylev	32	RUS	2677	72	5.5
5	Pentala Harikrishna	25	IND	2665	82	6
6	Sipke Ernst	33	NED	2606	-	4
7	Erwin L'Ami	26	NED	2596	-	5
8	Dimitri Reinderman	39	NED	2581	-	4
9	Jan Timman	60!	NED	2571	-	3
10	Illya Nyzhnyk	15	UKR	2568	-	4.5
11	Kateryna Lahno	22	UKR	2557	5w	3
12	Daniele Vocaturo	22	ITA	2545	-	3
13	Dronavalli Harika	21	IND	2516	11w	3
14	Viktorija Cmilyte	28	LTU	2503	16w	3

Harikrishna still ahead, but Motylev is within half-a-point.

Round 7:

Group-C:

White	Country	Rating	Result	Black	Country	Rating
Matthew Sadler	ENG	2660	½-½	Maxim Turov	RUS	2645
Elisabeth Paehtz	GER	2454	1-0	Etienne Goudriaan	NED	2279
Hans Tikkanen	SWE	2549	1-0	Anne Haast	NED	2290
Tania Sachdev	IND	2411	½-½	Elina Danielian	ARM	2490
Daan Brandenburg	NED	2527	½-½	Baskaran Adhiban	IND	2561
Sahaj Grover	IND	2532	1-0	Lisa Schut	NED	2290
Pieter Hopman	NED	2342	0-1	Lars Ootes	NED	2326