Potkin followed by 14 others

Draws on the top boards have left Vladimir Potkin still leading on 5.5/6, and ahead by half-a-point from the chasing pack of fourteen players on 5/6. Tomorrow's game is the last before the rest day.

Here are the results from the top twenty boards.

Board	Seed	Title/Name	Country	Rating	Points	-	Seed	Title/Name	Country	Rating	Points
1	27	GM Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter	ROU	2673	4½	½ - ½	43	GM Potkin Vladimir	RUS	2653	5
2	170	IM Wirig Anthony	FRA	2480	4½	½ - ½	87	GM Parligras Mircea-Emilian	ROU	2598	4½
3	61	GM Saric Ivan	CRO	2626	4	½ - ½	7	GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw	POL	2711	4
4	64	GM Romanov Evgeny	RUS	2624	4	0-1	9	GM Vallejo Pons Francisco	ESP	2707	4
5	12	GM Sutovsky Emil	ISR	2692	4	0-1	79	GM Hammer Jon Ludvig	NOR	2606	4
6	14	GM Polgar Judit	HUN	2686	4	0-1	73	GM Ragger Markus	AUT	2614	4
7	71	GM Savchenko Boris	RUS	2616	4	0-1	17	GM Zhigalko Sergei	BLR	2680	4
8	21	GM Volokitin Andrei	UKR	2677	4	1-0	84	GM Reinderman Dimitri	NED	2601	4
9	26	GM Moiseenko Alexander	RUS	2673	4	½ - ½	97	GM Guseinov Gadir	AZE	2584	4
10	113	GM Kovchan Alexander	UKR	2563	4	½ - ½	28	GM Kobalia Mikhail	RUS	2672	4
11	33	GM Cheparinov Ivan	BUL	2664	4	1-0	98	GM Mastrovasilis Dimitrios	GRE	2584	4
12	36	GM Khismatullin Denis	RUS	2662	4	1-0	107	GM Zhigalko Andrey	BLR	2571	4
13	40	GM Feller Sebastien	FRA	2657	4	1-0	108	GM Papin Vasily	RUS	2569	4
14	115	GM Zherebukh Yaroslav	UKR	2560	4	0-1	55	GM Khairullin Ildar	RUS	2634	4
15	59	GM Iordachescu Viorel	MDA	2626	4	1-0	175	IM Bellaiche Anthony	FRA	2472	4
16	60	GM Lupulescu Constantin	ROU	2626	4	1-0	151	GM Vaisser Anatoly	FRA	2522	4
17	74	GM Popov Ivan	RUS	2613	3½	½ - ½	1	GM Svidler Peter	RUS	2730	3½
18	2	GM Nepomniachtchi Ian	RUS	2729	3½	½ - ½	69	GM Macieja Bartlomiej	POL	2619	3½
19	70	GM Ivanisevic Ivan	SRB	2617	3½	½ - ½	3	GM Navara David	CZE	2722	3½
20	4	GM Vitiugov Nikita	RUS	2720	3½	1-0	83	GM Kulaots Kaido	EST	2601	3½

Today's photos:

Peter Svidler: Top seed and cricket fan (chessanytime)

Yelena Dembo (chessanytime)

Voirel Iordachescu (chessanytime)

Tomi Nyback (chessanytime)

Sergey Rublevsky and Alexander Riazantsev (chessanytime)

The previous champions:

Year	Player	Country
2000	Pavel Tregubov	RUS (FRA)
2001	Emil Sutovsky	ISR
2002	Bartolomej Macieja	POL
2003	Zurab Azmaiparashvili	GEO
2004	Vassily Ivanchuk	UKR
2005	Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu	ROM
2006	Zdenko Kozul	HRV
2007	Vladislav Tkachiev	KAZ (FRA)
2008	Sergei Tiviakov	RUS (NED)
2009	Evgeny Tomashevsky	RUS
2010	Ian Nepomniachtchi	RUS

Here are some rules, one of the most controversial being 'Zero Tolerance' for later-comers. One just has to be at the board at the beginning of the round!

The championship is an 11-round Swiss and the rate of play: 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one.

The Prizes:

The first 25 share 113,700 € and there will be 15 special prizes totaling 6 300 € for the best 'performance minus rating' achievements.

1	20 000 €
2	15 000 €
3	11 000 €
4	8 000 €
5	7 000 €
6	6 000 €
7	5 500 €
8	5 000 €
9	4 500 €
10	4 000 €

down to 25th (1000 Euros).

The top 'special' prize will be 1 000 €.

Rounds 1 to 7 start 3 pm (local time).

Tuesday the 29th is the rest day.

Then rounds 8 to 11, again at 3pm.

For more information go to:Official site