| Round 8 (July 28th) | |||||||
| Alexander Morozevich | (RUS) |
– | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | (FRA) | 0 – 1 |
(76) | |
| Fabiano Caruana | (ITA) |
– | Vassily Ivanchuk | (UKR) | 0 – 1 |
(41) | |
| Evgeny Alekseev | (RUS) |
– | Boris Gelfand | (ISR) | ½ ‐ ½ |
(11) |
Standing after 8 rounds:
| 1. | Vassily Ivanchuk | (UKR, 2703) | 5 |
| Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | (FRA, 2703) | 5 |
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| 3. | Alexander Morozevich | (RUS, 2751) | 4 |
| Evgeny Alekseev | (RUS, 2714) | 4 |
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| 5. | Fabiano Caruana | (ITA, 2670) | 3 |
| Boris Gelfand | (ISR, 2755) | 3 |
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The Morezevich game was a wild one!