Leaders after 8 rounds
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | |
| 1 | GM | Ipatov Alexander | TUR | 2577 | 6.5 | 17815 |
| 2 | GM | Yu Yangyi | CHN | 2635 | 6.5 | 17523 |
| 3 | GM | Rapport Richard | HUN | 2605 | 6.5 | 17004 |
| 4 | FM | Wei Yi | CHN | 2418 | 6.0 | 17701 |
| 5 | GM | Ter-Sahakyan Samvel | ARM | 2567 | 6.0 | 17419 |
| 6 | GM | Ding Liren | CHN | 2695 | 6.0 | 17396 |
| 7 | GM | Shimanov Aleksandr | RUS | 2596 | 6.0 | 17352 |
| 8 | IM | Debashis Das | IND | 2446 | 6.0 | 17231 |
| 9 | Lapidus Mark | EST | 2129 | 6.0 | 16913 | |
| 10 | IM | Holt Conrad | USA | 2498 | 6.0 | 16773 |
| 11 | FM | Schreiner Peter | AUT | 2444 | 6.0 | 16138 |
| 12 | IM | Grigoryan Karen H | ARM | 2529 | 5.5 | 17584 |
| 13 | GM | Cori Jorge | PER | 2487 | 5.5 | 17366 |
| 14 | GM | Grandelius Nils | SWE | 2562 | 5.5 | 17264 |
| 15 | IM | Grover Sahaj | IND | 2516 | 5.5 | 17238 |
| 16 | FM | Hambleton Aman | CAN | 2244 | 5.5 | 16976 |
| 17 | GM | Van Kampen Robin | NED | 2565 | 5.5 | 16934 |
| 18 | IM | Kovalev Vladislav | BLR | 2485 | 5.5 | 16929 |
| 19 | IM | Pavlidis Antonios | GRE | 2466 | 5.5 | 16866 |
| 20 | IM | Heimann Andreas | GER | 2493 | 5.5 | 16848 |
| 21 | GM | Huschenbeth Niclas | GER | 2532 | 5.5 | 16673 |
| 22 | IM | Antipov Mikhail Al | RUS | 2462 | 5.5 | 16574 |
| 23 | IM | Oparin Grigoriy | RUS | 2488 | 5.5 | 16504 |
Full standings here: http://wjcc2012.chessdom.com/results-open/
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