Standings after Round 7
| 1. | Fabiano Caruana | (ITA, 2697) | 4.5 |
| 2. | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | (FRA, 2723) | 4.0 |
| Wesley So | (PHI, 2674) | 4.0 | |
| Evgeny Tomashevsky | (RUS, 2708) | 4.0 | |
| Dmitry Andreikin | (RUS, 2650) | 4.0 | |
| Maxim Rodshtein | (ISR, 2609) | 4.0 | |
| 7. | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | (VIE, 2617) | 3.5 |
| 8. | Anish Giri | (NED, 2672) | 3.0 |
| 9. | David Howell | (ENG, 2616) | 2.0 |
| Parimarjan Negi | (IND, 2615) | 2.0 |