Caruana-So (Photo by Lennart Ootes)
So leads with 5.5 points, Caruana has 5, Nakamura, Anand and Kramnik are on 4.5.
Results of the 8th round
Caruana-So 1/2
Kramnik-Giri 1/2
Nakamura-Aronian 1/2
Vachier-Lagrave-Adams 1/2
Topalov-Anand 0-1
Games of the round
Pairings of the 9th round
| Levon Aronian | – | Veselin Topalov |
| Viswanathan Anand | – | Vladimir Kramnik |
| Anish Giri | – | Fabiano Caruana |
| Wesley So | – | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
| Michael Adams | – | Hikaru Nakamura |