Standings after 4 rounds:
| Rg. | Name | Elo | FED | Pkt. | |||
| 1 | GM | Areshchenko Alexander | 2651 | UKR | 4 | ||
| 2 | GM | Dreev Alexey | 2660 | RUS | 4 | ||
| 3 | GM | Morozevich Alexander | 2751 | RUS | 3½ | ||
| GM | Roiz Michael | 2658 | ISR | 3½ | |||
| GM | Bosiocic Marin | 2551 | CRO | 3½ | |||
| 6 | GM | Kuzubov Yuriy | 2635 | UKR | 3½ | ||
| 7 | GM | Fedorchuk Sergey | 2655 | UKR | 3½ | ||
| GM | Geetha Narayanan Gopal | 2575 | IND | 3½ | |||
| 9 | GM | Meier Georg | 2658 | GER | 3½ | ||
| GM | Avrukh Boris | 2641 | ISR | 3½ | |||
| GM | Golod Vitali | 2599 | ISR | 3½ | |||
| 12 | GM | Pelletier Yannick | 2574 | SUI | 3½ | ||
| GM | Lopez Martinez Jose Manuel | 2555 | ESP | 3½ | |||
| GM | Bischoff Klaus | 2551 | GER | 3½ | |||
| IM | Agopov Mikael | 2442 | FIN | 3½ | |||
| 16 | GM | Harikrishna P. | 2679 | IND | 3½ | ||
| GM | Sandipan Chanda | 2585 | IND | 3½ | |||
| GM | Pavlovic Milos | 2535 | SRB | 3½ | |||
| IM | Heimann Andreas | 2435 | GER | 3½ | |||
| 20 | GM | Fridman Daniel | 2665 | LAT | 3½ | ||
| 21 | Hobuss Udo | 2400 | GER | 3½ |
Full standings here.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Hess will win this. Americans are best.
Gopal put a break on Morozevich. Beware of the Indian trio at 3.5 points
“Hess will win this.”
Who is Hess?