Twelve share the lead in Aix-les-bains!

Several other players have made it to the leading score of 7/10 including Judit Polgar. In order to get into the top 23, synonymous with qualification for the World championship, 8/11 will be required.

Here are the results on the top twenty boards.

Board	Seed	Title/Name	Country	Rating	Points	-	Seed	Title/Name	Country	Rating	Points
1	4	GM Vitiugov Nikita	RUS	2720	6½	½ - ½	59	GM Iordachescu Viorel	MDA	2626	6½
2	31	GM Mamedov Rauf	AZE	2667	6½	½ - ½	73	GM Ragger Markus	AUT	2614	6½
3	43	GM Potkin Vladimir	RUS	2653	6½	½ - ½	87	GM Parligras Mircea-Emilian	ROU	2598	6½
4	2	GM Nepomniachtchi Ian	RUS	2729	6	½ - ½	21	GM Volokitin Andrei	UKR	2677	6½
5	5	GM Jakovenko Dmitry	RUS	2718	6	½ - ½	40	GM Feller Sebastien	FRA	2657	6
6	27	GM Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter	ROU	2673	6	0-1	7	GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw	POL	2711	6
7	44	GM Gharamian Tigran	FRA	2650	6	0-1	8	GM Jobava Baadur	GEO	2707	6
8	9	GM Vallejo Pons Francisco	ESP	2707	6	1-0	46	GM Korobov Anton	UKR	2647	6
9	55	GM Khairullin Ildar	RUS	2634	6	1-0	12	GM Sutovsky Emil	ISR	2692	6
10	60	GM Lupulescu Constantin	ROU	2626	6	0-1	14	GM Polgar Judit	HUN	2686	6
11	70	GM Ivanisevic Ivan	SBR	2617	6	½ - ½	16	GM Mcshane Luke J	ENG	2683	6
12	17	GM Zhigalko Sergei	BLR	2680	6	1-0	138	GM Gabrielian Artur	RUS	2532	6
13	1	GM Svidler Peter	RUS	2730	5½	1-0	56	GM Hracek Zbynek	CZE	2631	5½
14	45	GM Gustafsson Jan	GER	2647	5½	½ - ½	10	GM Dreev Aleksey	RUS	2697	5½
15	57	GM Salgado Lopez Ivan	ESP	2630	5½	½ - ½	11	GM Fressinet Laurent	FRA	2693	5½
16	13	GM Laznicka Viktor	CZE	2688	5½	0-1	68	GM Beliavsky Alexander G	SLO	2619	5½
17	63	GM Matlakov Maxim	RUS	2625	5½	½ - ½	18	GM Riazantsev Alexander	RUS	2679	5½
18	65	GM L'ami Erwin	NED	2623	5½	0-1	20	GM Motylev Alexander	RUS	2677	5½
19	25	GM Inarkiev Ernesto	RUS	2674	5½	1-0	79	GM Hammer Jon Ludvig	NOR	2606	5½
20	26	GM Moiseenko Alexander	UKR	2673	5½	1-0	71	GM Savchenko Boris	RUS	2616	5½

Here are today's photos:

Radoslaw Wojtaszek (chessanytime)

Ivan Cheparinov (chessanytime)

Zaven Andriasian (chessanytime)

Sebastien Feller (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.

Rounds 10 to 11 will be at 3pm (local time).

For more information go to:Official site