Standings after 10 rounds:
| 1. | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2754 | 6½ | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2751 | 6 | |||||||||||||||
| 3. | Alekseev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2716 | 5½ | |||||||||||||||
| 4. | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2748 | 5½ | |||||||||||||||
| 5. | Akopian, Vladimir | g | ARM | 2696 | 5½ | |||||||||||||||
| 6. | Karjakin, Sergey | g | UKR | 2721 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| 7. | Mamedyarov, Shak | g | AZE | 2725 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| 8. | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2728 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| 9. | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2726 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| 10. | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2720 | 4½ | |||||||||||||||
| 11. | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | g | UZB | 2695 | 4½ | |||||||||||||||
| 12. | Eljanov, Pavel | g | UKR | 2693 | 4½ | |||||||||||||||
| 13. | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2733 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| 14. | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2746 | 3½ |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Aronian will be World Champion someday.
Yes I think so as well, But world champion means less than it once did. 24 games is the way it should be. Mike.