GM Negi is leading with 7 points out of 8, Gupta is sole 2nd and there is a tie from 3rd to 13th.
Here are the first 20 players:
1 GM Negi Parimarjan IND 2618 7.0 0.0 17866 41.5
2 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2580 6.5 0.0 17280 38.0
3 GM Sasikiran Krishnan IND 2682 6.0 0.0 17783 41.5
4 GM Miroshnichenko Evgeni UKR 2670 6.0 0.0 17769 39.5
5 GM Balogh Csaba HUN 2601 6.0 0.0 17718 42.0
6 GM Kazhgaleyev Murtas KAZ 2618 6.0 0.0 17405 39.5
7 GM Amin Bassem EGY 2596 6.0 0.0 17373 42.0
8 GM Fedorov Alexei BLR 2596 6.0 0.0 17364 37.5
9 GM Berg Emanuel SWE 2612 6.0 0.0 17254 38.5
10 GM Pantsulaia Levan GEO 2595 6.0 0.0 17200 38.5
11 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 2638 6.0 0.0 17106 37.0
12 GM Hammer Jon Ludvig NOR 2606 6.0 0.0 16970 37.5
13 GM Guseinov Gadir AZE 2584 6.0 0.0 16949 40.5
14 GM Volkov Sergey RUS 2621 5.5 0.0 17719 41.0
15 GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil GEO 2629 5.5 0.0 17699 40.5
16 GM Petrosian Davit G ARM 2480 5.5 0.0 17531 39.5
17 GM Kuzubov Yuriy UKR 2627 5.5 0.0 17384 39.5
18 GM Akopian Vladimir ARM 2675 5.5 0.0 17296 39.5
19 WIM Schneider Veronika W HUN 2247 5.5 0.0 17179 36.0
20 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 2643 5.5 0.0 17150 36.5
Pairings of 9th round:
1 20 GM Gupta Abhijeet 6½ – 7 GM Negi Parimarjan 11
2 14 GM Balogh Csaba 6 – 6 GM Sasikiran Krishnan 1
3 3 GM Miroshnichenko E 6 – 6 GM Amin Bassem 16
4 13 GM Hammer Jon Ludvi 6 – 6 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej 6
5 10 GM Kazhgaleyev Murt 6 – 6 GM Pantsulaia Levan 18
6 17 GM Fedorov Alexei 6 – 6 GM Berg Emanuel 12
7 5 GM Ganguly Surya Sh 5½ – 6 GM Guseinov Gadir 19
8 29 GM Adhiban B 5½ – 5½ GM Akopian Vladimir 2
9 7 GM Mchedlishvili Mikh 5½ – 5½ GM Simantsev Mikhail 27
10 35 GM Al-Sayed Moham 5½ – 5½ GM Kuzubov Yuriy 8
