Leaders after 9 rounds:
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
| 1 | GM | Maletin Pavel | RUS | 2584 | 8,0 | 49,0 | 44,0 | 41,5 |
| 2 | GM | Negi Parimarjan | IND | 2636 | 7,5 | 49,0 | 44,0 | 41,0 |
| 3 | GM | Bocharov Dmitry | RUS | 2592 | 7,5 | 49,0 | 43,5 | 42,0 |
| 4 | IM | Ashwin Jayaram | IND | 2457 | 7,0 | 50,0 | 45,0 | 42,5 |
| 5 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2570 | 7,0 | 49,5 | 44,0 | 42,5 |
| 6 | IM | Lalith Babu M R | IND | 2493 | 7,0 | 48,0 | 43,5 | 41,0 |
| 7 | GM | Laxman R R | IND | 2476 | 7,0 | 47,5 | 42,5 | 40,5 |
| 8 | FM | Sai Krishna G V | IND | 2282 | 7,0 | 46,0 | 41,0 | 39,0 |
| 9 | GM | Kunte Abhijit | IND | 2523 | 7,0 | 45,0 | 40,5 | 38,5 |
| 10 | GM | Lafuente Pablo | ARG | 2587 | 7,0 | 43,5 | 40,0 | 37,0 |
| 11 | FM | Girish A Koushik | IND | 2276 | 7,0 | 43,0 | 39,0 | 37,0 |
| 12 | FM | Prasanna Rao | IND | 2309 | 7,0 | 43,0 | 39,0 | 36,0 |
| 13 | Matta Vinay Kumar | IND | 2256 | 7,0 | 42,0 | 38,5 | 35,0 | |
| 14 | GM | Bakre Tejas | IND | 2483 | 6,5 | 50,5 | 45,5 | 43,0 |
| 15 | GM | Kravtsiv Martyn | UKR | 2546 | 6,5 | 50,5 | 45,5 | 42,5 |
| 16 | FM | Nitin S | IND | 2363 | 6,5 | 50,0 | 45,0 | 43,0 |
| 17 | GM | Dreev Alexey | RUS | 2655 | 6,5 | 50,0 | 45,0 | 42,0 |
| 18 | GM | Kokarev Dmitry | RUS | 2612 | 6,5 | 50,0 | 44,0 | 43,0 |
| 19 | GM | Safarli Eltaj | AZE | 2610 | 6,5 | 48,5 | 43,5 | 41,0 |
| 20 | GM | Iuldachev Saidali | UZB | 2511 | 6,5 | 47,0 | 43,0 | 39,5 |
| 21 | IM | Tania Sachdev | IND | 2398 | 6,5 | 46,0 | 41,0 | 39,5 |
| 22 | Singh Gurpreet Pal | IND | 2287 | 6,5 | 46,0 | 41,0 | 39,0 | |
| 23 | IM | Shyam Sundar M | IND | 2372 | 6,5 | 45,0 | 40,5 | 38,0 |
| FM | Abu Sufian Shakil | BAN | 2305 | 6,5 | 45,0 | 40,5 | 38,0 | |
| 25 | IM | Grover Sahaj | IND | 2416 | 6,5 | 43,5 | 39,0 | 37,0 |
| 26 | FM | Hasan Mehdi | BAN | 2287 | 6,5 | 39,5 | 35,5 | 33,5 |
Full standings here: http://chess-results.com/tnr33848.aspx
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
How come non-Indians are allowed to play?
what a joke. and u call it a commonwealth chess championship for god sake.