Leaders after 8 rounds:
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
| 1 | GM | Kokarev Dmitry | RUS | 2612 | 7,0 | 41,5 | 36,5 | 35,0 |
| 2 | GM | Bocharov Dmitry | RUS | 2592 | 6,5 | 41,5 | 36,5 | 34,5 |
| 3 | GM | Dreev Alexey | RUS | 2655 | 6,5 | 40,5 | 36,0 | 34,0 |
| 4 | GM | Aleksandrov Aleksej | BLR | 2604 | 6,5 | 40,5 | 35,5 | 34,0 |
| 5 | GM | Maletin Pavel | RUS | 2584 | 6,5 | 40,0 | 35,0 | 33,0 |
| 6 | GM | Kovalyov Anton | ARG | 2615 | 6,5 | 39,5 | 34,5 | 32,5 |
| 7 | GM | Varga Zoltan | HUN | 2479 | 6,5 | 37,0 | 33,0 | 31,0 |
| 8 | GM | Fier Alexandr | BRA | 2581 | 6,5 | 37,0 | 32,5 | 31,0 |
| 9 | GM | Khusnutdinov Rustam | KAZ | 2525 | 6,5 | 36,0 | 32,0 | 29,5 |
| 10 | GM | Harutjunyan Gevorg | ARM | 2460 | 6,0 | 38,5 | 34,5 | 31,5 |
| 11 | GM | Deepan Chakkravarthy J | IND | 2488 | 6,0 | 38,5 | 34,0 | 32,0 |
| 12 | GM | Greenfeld Alon | ISR | 2561 | 6,0 | 38,5 | 33,5 | 32,0 |
| 13 | GM | Hera Imre Jr | HUN | 2558 | 6,0 | 38,0 | 33,0 | 32,0 |
| 14 | GM | Ovetchkin Roman | RUS | 2519 | 6,0 | 38,0 | 33,0 | 31,5 |
| 15 | IM | Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi | IND | 2473 | 6,0 | 37,5 | 33,5 | 31,0 |
| IM | Prathamesh Sunil Mokal | IND | 2411 | 6,0 | 37,5 | 33,5 | 31,0 | |
| 17 | GM | Kunte Abhijit | IND | 2523 | 6,0 | 37,5 | 33,0 | 31,5 |
| 18 | GM | Lafuente Pablo | ARG | 2587 | 6,0 | 37,0 | 32,5 | 31,0 |
| 19 | GM | Vorobiov Evgeny E | RUS | 2612 | 6,0 | 36,5 | 32,0 | 30,5 |
| 20 | GM | Turov Maxim | RUS | 2624 | 6,0 | 36,5 | 32,0 | 30,5 |
| 21 | GM | Negi Parimarjan | IND | 2636 | 6,0 | 36,5 | 32,0 | 30,0 |
| 22 | Kulkarni Rakesh | IND | 2149 | 6,0 | 36,0 | 32,5 | 29,5 | |
| 23 | Udeshi Aditya | IND | 2316 | 6,0 | 36,0 | 32,0 | 30,0 | |
| 24 | IM | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | IND | 2504 | 6,0 | 36,0 | 31,5 | 30,0 |
| 25 | GM | Kravtsiv Martyn | UKR | 2546 | 6,0 | 35,0 | 31,5 | 29,5 |
| 26 | GM | Sundararajan Kidambi | IND | 2520 | 6,0 | 35,0 | 30,5 | 29,5 |
| 27 | GM | Pogorelov Ruslan | UKR | 2454 | 6,0 | 34,5 | 30,0 | 29,0 |
| 28 | GM | Luther Thomas | GER | 2541 | 6,0 | 33,5 | 29,5 | 27,0 |
| 29 | IM | Konguvel Ponnuswamy | IND | 2412 | 6,0 | 32,5 | 28,5 | 27,5 |
More results here: http://chess-results.com/tnr34722.aspx
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Thomas Luther has 6 points. Not bad.