Standings after 5 rounds:
| 1. | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2703 | 3½ | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2756 | 3½ | |||||||||||||||
| 3. | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | g | UZB | 2672 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| 4. | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2768 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| 5. | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2755 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| 6. | Eljanov, Pavel | g | UKR | 2716 | 2½ | |||||||||||||||
| 7. | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2760 | 2½ | |||||||||||||||
| 8. | Karjakin, Sergey | g | UKR | 2717 | 2½ | |||||||||||||||
| 9. | Cheparinov, Ivan | g | BUL | 2678 | 2½ | |||||||||||||||
| 10. | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2721 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| 11. | Akopian, Vladimir | g | ARM | 2712 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| 12. | Alekseev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2714 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| 13. | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2717 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| 14. | Inarkiev, Ernesto | g | RUS | 2675 | 1 |
Official website: http://jermuk2009.fide.com/
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Who’s the hot babe?
Now that he is Russian citizen, how come Karjakin didn’t request to transfer from Ukrainina to Russian federation yet?
http://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.phtml?year=2009
“Who’s the hot babe?”
Leko’s wife Sofi.
Aronian’s girlfriend Arianne Caoili is also there. Haven’t seen Kasimdzhanov’s wife Firuza on any of the pictures.
They are all worth a look 😉