Caruana leads with 5.5 points.
Results of the 8th round
| Carlsen, Magnus | – | Vitiugov, Nikita | 1/2-1/2 |
| Caruana, Fabiano | – | Aronian, Levon | 1/2-1/2 |
| Bluebaum, Matthias | – | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | 1/2-1/2 |
| Meier, Georg | – | Hou, Yifan | 1/2-1/2 |
| Naiditsch, Arkadij | – | Anand, Viswanathan | 1/2-1/2 |

