The overnight leaders at the Dubai Open Chess Tournament settled for draws except GM Shabalov of USA and GM Fedoseev of Russia. They won their respective games to set up a top-board clash in the penultimate round. Shabalov and Fedoseev are on 6/7 points!
Amongst the Indian players, IMs Sayantan Das and Rathnakaran lead the way with 5.0/7 while the others are playing catch-up with 4.5/7. GM Sahaj Grover suffered an upset loss to Rakesh Kulkarni (2319) and is left behind at 3.5/9.
You may check out the pairings for round 8 here: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr168053.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=8&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984