There is no perfect score left at the 2010 European Individual Chess Championship as GMs Jobava and Efimenko drew each other. In the mean time, GMs Nisipeanu and Timofeev won today to join the leaderboard.
Round 5 top board results:
| Bo. | No. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | FED | Rtg | No. | ||||
| 1 | 10 | GM | Jobava Baadur | GEO | 2695 | 4 | ½ – ½ | 4 | GM | Efimenko Zahar | UKR | 2640 | 48 | ||
| 2 | 51 | GM | Sokolov Ivan | BIH | 2638 | 3½ | ½ – ½ | 3½ | GM | Vallejo Pons Francisco | ESP | 2708 | 5 | ||
| 3 | 71 | GM | Iordachescu Viorel | MDA | 2621 | 3½ | ½ – ½ | 3½ | GM | Adams Michael | ENG | 2704 | 7 | ||
| 4 | 24 | GM | Inarkiev Ernesto | RUS | 2667 | 3½ | ½ – ½ | 3½ | GM | Szabo Gergely-Andras-Gyula | ROU | 2525 | 159 | ||
| 5 | 28 | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 2661 | 3½ | 1 – 0 | 3½ | GM | Pelletier Yannick | SUI | 2611 | 83 | ||
| 6 | 96 | GM | Lupulescu Constantin | ROU | 2598 | 3½ | ½ – ½ | 3½ | GM | Nepomniachtchi Ian | RUS | 2656 | 35 | ||
| 7 | 36 | GM | Timofeev Artyom | RUS | 2655 | 3½ | 1 – 0 | 3½ | IM | Skoberne Jure | SLO | 2509 | 175 | ||
| 8 | 170 | GM | Maiorov Nikita | BLR | 2510 | 3½ | ½ – ½ | 3½ | GM | Mamedov Rauf | AZE | 2639 | 49 | ||
| 9 | 1 | GM | Almasi Zoltan | HUN | 2720 | 3 | 1 – 0 | 3½ | Nabaty Tamir | ISR | 2485 | 199 | |||
| 10 | 79 | GM | Lysyj Igor | RUS | 2615 | 3 | ½ – ½ | 3 | GM | Movsesian Sergei | SVK | 2709 | 3 | ||
| 11 | 81 | GM | Petrosian Tigran L | ARM | 2612 | 3 | ½ – ½ | 3 | GM | Alekseev Evgeny | RUS | 2700 | 9 | ||
| 12 | 87 | GM | Rodshtein Maxim | ISR | 2609 | 3 | 0 – 1 | 3 | GM | Naiditsch Arkadij | GER | 2691 | 11 | ||
| 13 | 89 | GM | Potkin Vladimir | RUS | 2606 | 3 | ½ – ½ | 3 | GM | Volokitin Andrei | UKR | 2687 | 13 | ||
| 14 | 14 | GM | Bologan Viktor | MDA | 2684 | 3 | ½ – ½ | 3 | GM | Lenic Luka | SLO | 2603 | 91 | ||
| 15 | 90 | GM | Safarli Eltaj | AZE | 2606 | 3 | ½ – ½ | 3 | GM | Caruana Fabiano | ITA | 2680 | 15 | ||
| 16 | 16 | GM | Sargissian Gabriel | ARM | 2675 | 3 | 0 – 1 | 3 | GM | Berg Emanuel | SWE | 2594 | 97 | ||
| 17 | 92 | GM | Kozul Zdenko | CRO | 2602 | 3 | 0 – 1 | 3 | GM | Kurnosov Igor | RUS | 2674 | 17 | ||
| 18 | 18 | GM | Areshchenko Alexander | UKR | 2670 | 3 | 1 – 0 | 3 | GM | Erdos Viktor | HUN | 2593 | 98 | ||
| 19 | 20 | GM | Georgiev Kiril | BUL | 2669 | 3 | 1 – 0 | 3 | GM | Kotronias Vasilios | GRE | 2593 | 99 | ||
| 20 | 22 | GM | Bareev Evgeny | RUS | 2667 | 3 | ½ – ½ | 3 | GM | Stocek Jiri | CZE | 2591 | 101 |
Women’s top board results:
| Bo. | No. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | FED | Rtg | No. | ||||
| 1 | 3 | IM | Muzychuk Anna | SLO | 2533 | 3½ | ½ – ½ | 4 | GM | Socko Monika | POL | 2465 | 17 | ||
| 2 | 4 | GM | Kosintseva Tatiana | RUS | 2524 | 3½ | 1 – 0 | 3½ | IM | Skripchenko Almira | FRA | 2456 | 21 | ||
| 3 | 5 | GM | Cramling Pia | SWE | 2523 | 3½ | 0 – 1 | 3½ | GM | Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan | SCO | 2447 | 24 | ||
| 4 | 41 | WGM | Galojan Lilit | ARM | 2380 | 3½ | ½ – ½ | 3½ | IM | Cmilyte Viktorija | LTU | 2485 | 13 | ||
| 5 | 1 | GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | BUL | 2555 | 3 | 1 – 0 | 3 | IM | Moser Eva | AUT | 2437 | 27 | ||
| 6 | 2 | IM | Kosintseva Nadezhda | RUS | 2554 | 3 | 1 – 0 | 3 | IM | Romanko Marina | RUS | 2409 | 31 | ||
| 7 | 6 | GM | Sebag Marie | FRA | 2506 | 3 | ½ – ½ | 3 | IM | Khurtsidze Nino | GEO | 2434 | 28 |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
What a difficult event. Who ever wins it deserves it.