Six now lead in Aix-les-Bains

Vladimir Potkin has been caught by four players in the chasing group, Nikita Vitiugov, Rauf Mamedov, Markus Ragger, Voirel Iordachescu and Mircea-Emilian Parligras. There are rounds to go in the 12th European Individual Championship

Here are the results on the top twenty boards.

Board	Seed	Title/Name	Country	Rating	Points	-	Seed	Title/Name	Country	Rating	Points
1	7	GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw	POL	2711	5½	½-½	43	GM Potkin Vladimir	RUS	2653	6
2	36	GM Khismatullin Denis	RUS	2662	5½	0-1	4	GM Vitiugov Nikita	RUS	2720	5½
3	40	GM Feller Sebastien	FRA	2657	5½	½-½	9	GM Vallejo Pons Francisco	ESP	2707	5½
4	46	GM Korobov Anton	UKR	2647	5½	½-½	17	GM Zhigalko Sergei	BLR	2680	5½
5	21	GM Volokitin Andrei	UKR	2677	5½	½-½	55	GM Khairullin Ildar	RUS	2634	5½
6	59	GM Iordachescu Viorel	MDA	2626	5½	1-0	26	GM Moiseenko Alexander	UKR	2673	5½
7	60	GM Lupulescu Constantin	ROU	2626	5½	½-½	27	GM Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter	ROU	2673	5½
8	73	GM Ragger Markus	AUT	2614	5½	1-0	28	GM Kobalia Mikhail	RUS	2672	5½
9	79	GM Hammer Jon Ludvig	NOR	2606	5½	0-1	31	GM Mamedov Rauf	AZE	2667	5½
10	33	GM Cheparinov Ivan	BUL	2664	5½	0-1	87	GM Parligras Mircea-Emilian	ROU	2598	5½
11	38	GM Smeets Jan	NED	2660	5	½-½	1	GM Svidler Peter	RUS	2730	5
12	2	GM Nepomniachtchi Ian	RUS	2729	5	1-0	37	GM Fridman Daniel	GER	2661	5
13	44	GM Gharamian Tigran	FRA	2650	5	1-0	3	GM Navara David	CZE	2722	5
14	64	GM Romanov Evgeny	RUS	2624	5	0-1	5	GM Jakovenko Dmitry	RUS	2718	5
15	8	GM Jobava Baadur	GEO	2707	5	1-0	58	GM Safarli Eltaj	AZE	2628	5
16	10	GM Dreev Aleksey	RUS	2697	5	½-½	65	GM L'Ami Erwin	NED	2623	5
17	12	GM Sutovsky Emil	ISR	2692	5	1-0	66	GM Lenic Luka	SLO	2623	5
18	14	GM Polgar Judit	HUN	2686	5	1-0	97	GM Guseinov Gadir	AZE	2584	5
19	70	GM Ivanisevic Ivan	SRB	2617	5	1-0	15	GM Naiditsch Arkadij	GER	2684	5
20	16	GM McShane Luke J	ENG	2683	5	1-0	139	IM Anisimov Pavel	RUS	2532	5

Eighteen players are now on 6/8, just half-a-point behind the leading sextet.

Francisco Vallejo Pons (chessanytime)

Jon Ludvig Hammer (chessanytime)

Judit Polgar (chessanytime)

Anthony Wirig (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 8 to 11 will be at 3pm (local time) from Wednesday onwards.

For more information go to:Official site