In der Partie zwischen dem Kroaten Ivan Saric und dem für den spanischen Verband spielenden, in Riga, dem Austragungsort des Turniers, geborenen Letten Alexei Shirov besiegte sich Saric quasi selber. Shirov wird es egal gewesen sein: Dieser Punkt beförderte ihn in die nach dieser Runde dreiköpfige Führungsgruppe.

Alexei Shirov kann mit dem Resultat seines Arbeitstages zufrieden sein
Insgesamt 54 Bretter
| Rk. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | ||
| 1 |
|
GM | Firouzja Alireza | 2770 | 4,0 | 13,5 |
| 2 |
|
GM | Najer Evgeniy | 2654 | 4,0 | 10,5 |
| 3 |
|
GM | Shirov Alexei | 2659 | 4,0 | 9,5 |
| 4 |
|
GM | Yu Yangyi | 2704 | 3,5 | 13,5 |
|
|
GM | Ponkratov Pavel | 2659 | 3,5 | 13,5 | |
| 6 |
|
GM | Petrosyan Manuel | 2605 | 3,5 | 13,0 |
| 7 |
|
GM | Nihal Sarin | 2652 | 3,5 | 13,0 |
| 8 |
|
GM | Caruana Fabiano | 2800 | 3,5 | 12,5 |
| 9 |
|
GM | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | 2763 | 3,5 | 12,0 |
| 10 |
|
GM | Predke Alexandr | 2666 | 3,5 | 12,0 |
| 11 |
|
GM | Korobov Anton | 2690 | 3,5 | 11,5 |
| 12 |
|
GM | Sevian Samuel | 2654 | 3,5 | 11,0 |
| 13 |
|
GM | Tari Aryan | 2646 | 3,5 | 11,0 |
| 14 |
|
GM | Sargissian Gabriel | 2664 | 3,5 | 10,5 |
| 15 |
|
GM | Navara David | 2691 | 3,5 | 10,0 |
| 16 |
|
GM | Sasikiran Krishnan | 2640 | 3,5 | 10,0 |
| 17 |
|
GM | Deac Bogdan-Daniel | 2643 | 3,5 | 9,5 |
| 18 |
|
GM | Saric Ivan | 2644 | 3,0 | 14,0 |
| 19 |
|
GM | Hovhannisyan Robert | 2622 | 3,0 | 13,5 |
| 20 |
|
GM | Keymer Vincent | 2630 | 3,0 | 13,0 |
| 21 |
|
GM | Ponomariov Ruslan | 2631 | 3,0 | 12,5 |
| 22 |
|
GM | Swiercz Dariusz | 2647 | 3,0 | 12,5 |
| 23 |
|
GM | Dreev Aleksey | 2635 | 3,0 | 12,0 |
| 24 |
|
GM | Kryvoruchko Yuriy | 2686 | 3,0 | 12,0 |
| 25 |
|
GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | 2691 | 3,0 | 12,0 |
| 26 |
|
GM | Artemiev Vladislav | 2699 | 3,0 | 11,5 |
| 27 |
|
GM | Donchenko Alexander | 2648 | 3,0 | 11,5 |
| 28 |
|
GM | Maghsoodloo Parham | 2701 | 3,0 | 11,5 |
|
|
GM | Praggnanandhaa R | 2618 | 3,0 | 11,5 | |
| 30 |
|
GM | Tabatabaei M. Amin | 2639 | 3,0 | 11,5 |
| 31 |
|
GM | Aronian Levon | 2782 | 3,0 | 11,0 |
|
|
GM | Sjugirov Sanan | 2663 | 3,0 | 11,0 | |
| 33 |
|
GM | Dubov Daniil | 2714 | 3,0 | 11,0 |
|
|
GM | Oparin Grigoriy | 2654 | 3,0 | 11,0 | |
| 35 |
|
GM | Chigaev Maksim | 2639 | 3,0 | 11,0 |
| 36 |
|
GM | Sarana Alexey | 2649 | 3,0 | 10,5 |
| 37 |
|
GM | Vitiugov Nikita | 2727 | 3,0 | 10,5 |
| 38 |
|
GM | Kollars Dmitrij | 2621 | 3,0 | 10,5 |
| 39 |
|
GM | Bluebaum Matthias | 2640 | 3,0 | 10,5 |
|
|
GM | Kuzubov Yuriy | 2624 | 3,0 | 10,5 | |
| 41 |
|
GM | Grandelius Nils | 2662 | 3,0 | 10,0 |
| 42 |
|
GM | Esipenko Andrey | 2720 | 3,0 | 10,0 |
| 43 |
|
GM | Xiong Jeffery | 2700 | 3,0 | 10,0 |
| 44 |
|
GM | Anton Guijarro David | 2658 | 3,0 | 10,0 |
| 45 |
|
GM | Harikrishna Pentala | 2719 | 3,0 | 10,0 |
| 46 |
|
GM | Abdusattorov Nodirbek | 2646 | 3,0 | 9,5 |
| 47 |
|
GM | Yilmaz Mustafa | 2626 | 3,0 | 9,0 |
| 48 |
|
GM | Volokitin Andrei | 2652 | 3,0 | 9,0 |
Insgesamt 108 Teilnehmer
Die Partie zwischen Lela Javakhishvili und Elisabeth Pähtz wurde (vor-) entschieden, als Pähtz im Doppelturmendspiel den besseren Weitblick bewies: Sie erkannte die Bedeutung des freien h-Bauern.

Elisabeth Pähtz glänzte mit starker Endspieltechnik
| Rk. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | ||
| 1 |
|
GM | Batsiashvili Nino | 2484 | 4,0 | 13,0 |
| 2 |
|
IM | Paehtz Elisabeth | 2475 | 4,0 | 13,0 |
|
|
WGM | Zhu Jiner | 2455 | 4,0 | 13,0 | |
| 4 |
|
GM | Lei Tingjie | 2505 | 4,0 | 12,5 |
| 5 |
|
WGM | Zawadzka Jolanta | 2428 | 4,0 | 9,0 |
| 6 |
|
GM | Dzagnidze Nana | 2524 | 3,5 | 14,5 |
| 7 |
|
WGM | Pogonina Natalija | 2467 | 3,5 | 13,5 |
| 8 |
|
GM | Harika Dronavalli | 2511 | 3,5 | 11,5 |
| 9 |
|
IM | Badelka Olga | 2438 | 3,5 | 11,0 |
| 10 |
|
IM | Javakhishvili Lela | 2446 | 3,0 | 13,0 |
| 11 |
|
GM | Kosteniuk Alexandra | 2518 | 3,0 | 13,0 |
| 12 |
|
GM | Gunina Valentina | 2462 | 3,0 | 12,5 |
| 13 |
|
GM | Muzychuk Mariya | 2536 | 3,0 | 12,0 |
| 14 |
|
IM | Assaubayeva Bibisara | 2400 | 3,0 | 11,5 |
| 15 |
|
GM | Girya Olga | 2410 | 3,0 | 11,5 |
| 16 |
|
IM | Osmak Iulija | 2423 | 3,0 | 11,0 |
| 17 |
|
IM | Shuvalova Polina | 2509 | 3,0 | 11,0 |
| 18 |
|
WIM | Vantika Agrawal | 2322 | 3,0 | 10,5 |
| 19 |
|
GM | Abdumalik Zhansaya | 2507 | 3,0 | 10,5 |
| 20 |
|
IM | Kashlinskaya Alina | 2493 | 3,0 | 10,5 |
| 21 |
|
IM | Munguntuul Batkhuyag | 2433 | 3,0 | 10,0 |
| 22 |
|
WGM | Sargsyan Anna M. | 2402 | 2,5 | 13,0 |
| 23 |
|
IM | Saduakassova Dinara | 2491 | 2,5 | 11,5 |
|
|
IM | Melia Salome | 2371 | 2,5 | 11,5 | |
| 25 |
|
GM | Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan | 2376 | 2,5 | 11,5 |
| 26 |
|
GM | Socko Monika | 2397 | 2,5 | 11,5 |
| 27 |
|
WGM | Garifullina Leya | 2409 | 2,5 | 11,0 |
| 28 |
|
WGM | Rogule Laura | 2289 | 2,5 | 10,5 |
| 29 |
|
WGM | Vaishali R | 2419 | 2,5 | 10,5 |
| 30 |
|
WGM | Maltsevskaya Aleksandra | 2411 | 2,5 | 9,5 |
| 31 |
|
IM | Padmini Rout | 2380 | 2,0 | 12,5 |
| 32 |
|
IM | Lujan Carolina | 2340 | 2,0 | 12,5 |
| 33 |
|
IM | Sukandar Irine Kharisma | 2406 | 2,0 | 12,5 |
| 34 |
|
WIM | Divya Deshmukh | 2305 | 2,0 | 11,5 |
| 35 |
|
GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | 2475 | 2,0 | 11,0 |
| 36 |
|
IM | Atalik Ekaterina | 2420 | 2,0 | 11,0 |
| 37 |
|
IM | Bivol Alina | 2392 | 2,0 | 10,5 |
| 38 |
|
WGM | Cori T. Deysi | 2382 | 2,0 | 10,5 |
| 39 |
|
IM | Houska Jovanka | 2381 | 2,0 | 9,5 |
| 40 |
|
GM | Hoang Thanh Trang | 2380 | 2,0 | 9,0 |
| 41 |
|
GM | Cramling Pia | 2447 | 2,0 | 8,5 |
| 42 |
|
WIM | Kamalidenova Meruert | 2339 | 2,0 | 8,0 |
| 43 |
|
IM | Buksa Nataliya | 2409 | 1,5 | 13,0 |
| 44 |
|
IM | Arabidze Meri | 2441 | 1,5 | 10,5 |
| 45 |
|
GM | Danielian Elina | 2450 | 1,5 | 10,5 |
| 46 |
|
FM | Eizaguerri Floris Maria | 2328 | 1,5 | 7,5 |
| 47 |
|
IM | Cyfka Karina | 2409 | 1,0 | 11,0 |
| 48 |
|
IM | Milliet Sophie | 2410 | 1,0 | 9,0 |
| 49 |
|
Golsta Madara | 2003 | 0,5 | 8,0 | |
| 50 |
|
WIM | February Jesse Nikki | 1857 | 0,0 | 9,0 |