Standings after 5 rounds:
| 1. | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2736 | 3½ | |||||||||||
| 2. | Vitiugov, Nikita | g | RUS | 2694 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 3. | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2754 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 4. | Sjugirov, Sanan | g | RUS | 2612 | 2½ | |||||||||||
| 5. | Timofeev, Artyom | g | RUS | 2651 | 2½ | |||||||||||
| 6. | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2708 | 2½ | |||||||||||
| 7. | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2736 | 2½ | |||||||||||
| 8. | Khismatullin, Denis | g | RUS | 2643 | 2½ | |||||||||||
| 9. | Alekseev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2715 | 2½ | |||||||||||
| 10. | Riazantsev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2661 | ½ |
Women’s Standings:
| 1. | Galliamova, Alisa | m | RUS | 2460 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 2. | Kosintseva, Nadezhda | m | RUS | 2518 | 4 | |||||||||||
| 3. | Pogonina, Natalija | wg | RUS | 2501 | 3½ | |||||||||||
| 4. | Gunina, Valentina | wf | RUS | 2446 | 3½ | |||||||||||
| 5. | Kosintseva, Tatiana | m | RUS | 2522 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 6. | Bodnaruk, Anastasia | wg | RUS | 2372 | 2½ | |||||||||||
| 7. | Zaiatz, Elena | m | RUS | 2390 | 1½ | |||||||||||
| 8. | Manakova, Maria | wg | SRB | 2344 | 1½ | |||||||||||
| 9. | Romanko, Marina | m | RUS | 2449 | ½ | |||||||||||
| 10. | Stepovaia, Tatiana | wg | RUS | 2384 | 0 |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
What happened to Svidler?
How does a super-GM lose like this ?: Sjugirov,S (2612) – Svidler,P (2754) [B12]
62nd ch-RUS Moscow RUS (5), 24.12.2009
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2 Nd7 6.0-0 Bg6 7.Nbd2 Nh6 8.Nb3 Nf5 9.Bd2 h5 10.g3 a6 11.Rc1 b5 12.a4 Be7 13.Ra1 f6 14.Bf4 0-0 15.Bd3 Re8 16.h3 Bh7 17.exf6 Bxf6 18.Re1 g5 19.Be5 Rf8 20.Qd2 Nxe5 21.Nxe5 Qd6 22.Nc5 Kh8 23.c3 1-0
Everyone can have a bad day…
How? Well, he played chess against another champion. That’s all.