11th Dubai Open 2009 26th April to 4th May 2009
Leaders after 8 rounds:
| 1 | GM | Kotanjian Tigran | ARM | 2552 | 6,5 | 17668 | 2555 | 0,5 |
| 2 | GM | Bocharov Dmitry | RUS | 2606 | 6,5 | 16983 | 2459 | 0,5 |
| 3 | GM | Guseinov Gadir | AZE | 2659 | 6,0 | 17824 | 2556 | 0,0 |
| 4 | GM | Malakhatko Vadim | BEL | 2618 | 6,0 | 17762 | 2552 | 0,0 |
| 5 | GM | Arun Prasad S | IND | 2552 | 6,0 | 17525 | 2540 | 0,0 |
| 6 | GM | Maletin Pavel | RUS | 2559 | 6,0 | 17493 | 2543 | 0,0 |
| 7 | IM | Sundararajan Kidambi | IND | 2487 | 6,0 | 17464 | 2546 | 0,0 |
| 8 | GM | Anastasian Ashot | ARM | 2554 | 6,0 | 17034 | 2469 | 0,0 |
| 9 | GM | Bachmann Axel | PAR | 2555 | 5,5 | 17631 | 2553 | 0,0 |
| 10 | GM | Ghaem Maghami Ehsan | IRI | 2593 | 5,5 | 17570 | 2517 | 0,0 |
| 11 | GM | Pantsulaia Levan | GEO | 2581 | 5,5 | 17534 | 2527 | 0,0 |
| 12 | GM | Jankovic Alojzije | CRO | 2540 | 5,5 | 17461 | 2529 | 0,0 |
| 13 | GM | Hossain Enamul | BAN | 2531 | 5,5 | 17403 | 2528 | 0,0 |
| 14 | GM | Neverov Valeriy | UKR | 2552 | 5,5 | 17339 | 2518 | 0,0 |
| 15 | GM | Geetha Narayanan Gopal | IND | 2572 | 5,5 | 17283 | 2484 | 0,0 |
| 16 | GM | Ibrahimov Rasul | AZE | 2537 | 5,5 | 17232 | 2495 | 0,0 |
| 17 | GM | Kotsur Pavel | KAZ | 2589 | 5,5 | 17205 | 2495 | 0,0 |
| 18 | GM | Mchedlishvili Mikheil | GEO | 2586 | 5,5 | 17161 | 2468 | 0,0 |
| 19 | GM | Miezis Normunds | LAT | 2579 | 5,5 | 17160 | 2470 | 0,0 |
| 20 | GM | Arutinian David | GEO | 2548 | 5,5 | 17145 | 2479 | 0,0 |
| 21 | GM | Volkov Sergey | RUS | 2594 | 5,5 | 16956 | 2449 | 0,0 |
| 22 | Ramnath Bhuvanesh R | IND | 2273 | 5,5 | 15216 | 2536 | 0,0 |
Here are the full standings.
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