Standings after 5 rounds
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | |
| 1 | GM | Yu Yangyi | CHN | 2635 | 4.5 | 9981 |
| 2 | GM | Ipatov Alexander | TUR | 2577 | 4.5 | 9953 |
| 3 | GM | Ter-Sahakyan Samvel | ARM | 2567 | 4.5 | 9778 |
| 4 | GM | Grandelius Nils | SWE | 2562 | 4.5 | 9633 |
| 5 | GM | Shimanov Aleksandr | RUS | 2596 | 4.0 | 9884 |
| 6 | GM | Salem A R Saleh | UAE | 2546 | 4.0 | 9848 |
| 7 | GM | Ding Liren | CHN | 2695 | 4.0 | 9822 |
| 8 | GM | Cori Jorge | PER | 2487 | 4.0 | 9769 |
| 9 | IM | Grigoryan Karen H | ARM | 2529 | 4.0 | 9724 |
| 10 | GM | Zherebukh Yaroslav | UKR | 2629 | 4.0 | 9630 |
| 11 | GM | Rapport Richard | HUN | 2605 | 4.0 | 9478 |
| 12 | IM | Debashis Das | IND | 2446 | 4.0 | 9435 |
| 13 | IM | Heimann Andreas | GER | 2493 | 4.0 | 9434 |
Full standings here: http://wjcc2012.chessdom.com/results-open/
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