- Kurnosov with clear lead at Aeroflot

Round 5 top board pairings:

Table	White	Flags	Score	Fed.	Rating	Black	Flags	Score	Fed.	Rating
1	GM Kurnosov, Igor		3.5	RUS	2602	GM Bacrot, Etienne		3.0	FRA	2722
2	GM Grachev, Boris		3.0	RUS	2655	GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar		3.0	AZE	2724
3	GM Kazhgaleyev, Murtas		3.0	KAZ	2630	GM Sargissian, Gabriel		3.0	ARM	2677
4	IM Ponkratov, Pavel		3.0	RUS	2557	GM Moiseenko, Alexander		3.0	UKR	2676
5	GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny		3.0	RUS	2664	GM Zhou, Jianchao		3.0	CHN	2612
6	GM Pashikian, Arman		2.5	ARM	2621	GM Naiditsch, Arkadij		2.5	GER	2693
7	GM Vitiugov, Nikita		2.5	RUS	2687	GM Romanov, Evgeny		2.5	RUS	2576
8	GM Landa, Konstantin		2.5	RUS	2626	GM Amonatov, Farrukh		2.5	TJK	2647
9	GM Zhigalko, Sergei		2.5	BLR	2587	GM Smirin, Ilia		2.5	ISR	2647
10	GM Bareev, Evgeny		2.5	RUS	2645	GM Potkin, Vladimir		2.5	RUS	2613
11	GM Zhigalko, Andrey		2.5	BLR	2572	GM Mamedov, Rauf		2.5	AZE	2638
12	GM Smirnov, Pavel		2.5	RUS	2579	GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim		2.5	RUS	2636
13	GM Riazantsev, Alexander		2.5	RUS	2634	GM Grigoriants, Sergey		2.5	RUS	2565
14	GM So, Wesley	j	2.5	PHI	2627	GM Safarli, Eltaj	j	2.5	AZE	2564
15	GM Aleksandrov, Aleksej		2.0	BLR	2636	GM Filippov, Anton		2.5	UZB	2556

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Kurnosov with clear lead at Aeroflot