Vassily Ivanchuk cooled off a bit in the second half of the Capablanca Memorial, but even finishing with a +1 =4 score in the second round robin was good enough for him to finish with an undefeated 7-3 score, a point ahead of his countryman Yuriy Kryvoruchko. Ivan Cheparinov and Zoltan Almasi both finished on 50%, while the native players Lenier Dominguez and Lazaro Bruzon took the bottom places with 4.5 and 2.5 points, respectively.
That was the Elite Group; in the "Premier" tournament the very young American GM Jeffery Xiong took first with 6.5/9. He won his first three games in the tournament, then drew five in a row before winning in the last round, and in so doing finished half a point clear of Cuban GM Isan Ortiz Suarez and Polish GM Kamil Dragun.