Leaders after 5 rounds:
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
| 1 | GM | Rakhmanov Aleksandr | RUS | 2559 | 4,5 | 0,0 | 11,0 | 13,25 |
| 2 | GM | Anastasian Ashot | ARM | 2566 | 4,5 | 0,0 | 10,0 | 14,75 |
| 3 | GM | Amin Bassem | EGY | 2551 | 4,5 | 0,0 | 9,5 | 13,75 |
| 4 | IM | Laxman R R | IND | 2501 | 4,5 | 0,0 | 9,5 | 12,75 |
| 5 | GM | Andriasian Zaven | ARM | 2585 | 4,5 | 0,0 | 8,5 | 12,50 |
| 6 | GM | Kengis Edvins | LAT | 2543 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 10,0 | 12,75 |
| 7 | GM | Filippov Anton | UZB | 2583 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 10,0 | 12,50 |
| GM | Agamaliev Gamil | AZE | 2490 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 10,0 | 12,50 | |
| 9 | GM | Savchenko Stanislav | UKR | 2526 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 10,0 | 9,75 |
| 10 | Antonio Viani D’Cunha | IND | 2107 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 10,0 | 8,00 | |
| 11 | GM | Sturua Zurab | GEO | 2513 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 9,5 | 9,50 |
| 12 | GM | Ghaem Maghami Ehsan | IRI | 2589 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 9,0 | 13,00 |
| 13 | GM | Bocharov Dmitry | RUS | 2613 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 9,0 | 13,00 |
| 14 | GM | Melkumyan Hrant | ARM | 2530 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 9,0 | 12,50 |
| 15 | GM | Simonian Hrair | ARM | 2520 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 9,0 | 12,25 |
| 16 | GM | Ovetchkin Roman | RUS | 2548 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 8,5 | 10,25 |
| 17 | IM | Adu Oladapo | NGR | 2276 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 8,5 | 8,00 |
| 18 | FM | Saeed Ishaq | UAE | 2188 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 8,5 | 7,50 |
| 19 | GM | El Gindy Essam | EGY | 2501 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 8,0 | 7,00 |
| 20 | Nirmal E P | IND | 2268 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 7,5 | 10,00 | |
| 21 | GM | Aleksandrov Aleksej | BLR | 2616 | 3,5 | 0,0 | 10,5 | 11,50 |
| 22 | IM | El Arousy Abdul Hameed | EGY | 2295 | 3,5 | 0,0 | 9,0 | 8,75 |
| 23 | WGM | Zdebskaja Natalia | UKR | 2412 | 3,5 | 0,0 | 8,5 | 9,25 |
| 24 | GM | Drozdovskij Yuri | UKR | 2620 | 3,5 | 0,0 | 8,5 | 9,00 |
| 25 | Pabalan Rocky | PHI | 2033 | 3,5 | 0,0 | 8,0 | 7,75 | |
| 26 | Jumma Al Mmouhairi | UAE | 1925 | 3,5 | 0,0 | 8,0 | 5,25 | |
| 27 | CM | Sanal Vahap | TUR | 1976 | 3,5 | 0,0 | 7,5 | 8,00 |
| 28 | GM | Salem A R Saleh | UAE | 2469 | 3,5 | 0,0 | 7,5 | 7,00 |
| 29 | Saad Baha | JOR | 2109 | 3,5 | 0,0 | 7,5 | 6,25 | |
| 30 | FM | Ayyad Husain | BRN | 2107 | 3,5 | 0,0 | 7,5 | 5,75 |
| 31 | Choukri Adel | MAR | 2105 | 3,5 | 0,0 | 7,0 | 7,50 |
Full results here. Official website: http://www.abudhabichess.com/
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
A 2100 in the top 10?
congratulations Viani for your IM Norm! Great achievement. You should get a sponsor to play more Norm Tournaments. You will. God bless U
Viani gets IM norm. See my blog for more details. http://creativechess.blogspot.com/