And then there were two...

Saint Petersburg versus Tomsk

Saint Petersburg are ahead of Baden-Baden on board points at the top of the leaderboard. These two teams are the only ones to have won their first five matches, and their head-to-head encounter in the sixth round should be decisive. In the Women's club championship there are three teams sharing the lead, Mika, Timisoara and AVS.

The fifth round matches featured Saint Petersburg's convincing win over Tomsk and Baden-Baden's victory over SHSM, both teams featuring four 2700+ players.

Match Board	Seed Title	White (on odds)		Score	Seed Title	Black (on odds, white on evens)
1	2	SHSM-64		2½ - 3½	5	OSG Baden Baden
1	GM	Gelfand Boris	2746	½:½	GM	Adams Michael	2733
2	GM	Wang Hao	2733	0 : 1	GM	Shirov Alexei	2713
3	GM	Caruana Fabiano	2712	1 : 0	GM	Bacrot Etienne	2705
4	GM	Giri Anish	2722	0 : 1	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	2707
5	GM	Riazantsev Alexander	2688	½:½	GM	Nielsen Peter Heine	2687
6	GM	Najer Evgeniy	2637	½:½	GM	Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter	2638
2	7	Tomsk-400		1½ - 4½	4	Saint-Petersburg Chess Federation
1	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2758	½:½	GM	Svidler Peter	2740
2	GM	Motylev Alexander	2690	0 : 1	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	2726
3	GM	Inarkiev Ernesto	2692	0 : 1	GM	Movsesian Sergei	2715
4	GM	Areshchenko Alexander	2672	½:½	GM	Efimenko Zahar	2703
5	GM	Bologan Viktor	2657	½:½	GM	Zvjaginsev Vadim	2666
6	GM	Kurnosov Igor	2648	0 : 1	GM	Khairullin Ildar	2642
3	17	Lunds ASK		1½ - 4½	1	SOCAR
1	GM	Tikkanen Hans	2591	½:½	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2757
2	GM	Grandelius Nils	2536	0 : 1	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2746
3	IM	Smith Axel	2488	½:½	GM	Sutovsky Emil	2690
4	IM	Bejtovic Jasmin	2425	0 : 1	GM	Volokitin Andrei	2686
5	IM	Lund Silas	2380	½:½	GM	Mamedov Rauf	2660
6	FM	Nilsson Sebastian	2362	0 : 1	GM	Safarli Eltaj	2627
4	14	Beer Sheba		1½ - 4½	3	Ekonomist SGSEU Saratov
1	GM	Huzman Alexander	2607	½:½	GM	Tomashevsky Evgeny	2710
2	GM	Rodshtein Maxim	2641	½:½	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	2718
3	GM	Postny Evgeny	2622	½:½	GM	Eljanov Pavel	2683
4	GM	Greenfeld Alon	2573	0 : 1	GM	Andreikin Dmitry	2705
5	GM	Khmelniker Ilya	2518	0 : 1	GM	Moiseenko Alexander	2726
6	FM	Zanan Evgeny	2259	0 : 1	GM	Ni Hua	2670
5	16	SD Tehcenter Ptuj		½ - 5½	6	Ugra
1	GM	Beliavsky Alexander G	2616	0 : 1	GM	Jakovenko Dmitry	2716
2	GM	Pavasovic Dusko	2561	0 : 1	GM	Rublevsky Sergei	2681
3	GM	Borisek Jure	2534	½:½	GM	Malakhov Vladimir	2710
4	IM	Polajzer Danilo	2293	0 : 1	GM	Dreev Aleksey	2711
5	FM	Podkriznik Gregor	2332	0 : 1	GM	Sjugirov Sanan	2627
6	FM	Roskar Robert	2290	0 : 1	GM	Kabanov Nikolai	2513
6	8	A DAN DZO & PGMB		3½ - 2½	15	Vesnianka Gran
1	GM	Jobava Baadur	2712	0 : 1	GM	Zhigalko Andrey	2555
2	GM	Kryvoruchko Yuriy	2666	½:½	GM	Teterev Vitaly	2519
3	GM	Azarov Sergei	2648	½:½	GM	Podolchenko Evgeniy	2474
4	GM	Guseinov Gadir	2626	½:½	GM	Tihonov Jurij	2448
5	GM	Savchenko Boris	2630	1 : 0	IM	Mochalov Evgeny V	2379
6	GM	Zherebukh Yaroslav	2580	1 : 0	GM	Stupak Kirill	2516
7	9	Mika		4½ - 1½	49	Glasinac Sokolac
1	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2658	½:½	GM	Solak Dragan	2622
2	GM	Petrosian Tigran L	2649	½:½	GM	Kovacevic Aleksandar	2568
3	GM	Melkumyan Hrant	2619	1 : 0	FM	Bilic Vladimir	2314
4	GM	Pashikian Arman	2618	½:½	FM	Batinic Predrag	2314
5	GM	Andriasian Zaven	2615	1 : 0		Plakalovic Predrag	2258
6	GM	Hovhannisyan Robert	2578	1 : 0		Kosoric Sasa	0
8	10	G-Team Novy Bor		3 - 3	11	Bosna Sarajevo
1	GM	Laznicka Viktor	2701	½:½	GM	Berkes Ferenc	2706
2	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	2704	½:½	GM	Ragger Markus	2655
3	GM	Bartel Mateusz	2627	1 : 0	GM	Predojevic Borki	2643
4	GM	Hracek Zbynek	2624	½:½	GM	Nikolic Predrag	2636
5	GM	Markos Jan	2596	½:½	IM	Stojanovic Dalibor	2466
6	GM	Haba Petr	2502	0 : 1	IM	Kadric Denis	2403

After the leading pair, the teams at the top of the pack in the chasing group, Socar, Ekonomist and Ugra have a high number of board points. The eventual winner will almost certainly come from one of the top five.

Rank	Team	+	-	=	Match points	Board points	Country
1	Saint-Petersburg Chess Federation	5	0	0	10	25	RUS
2	OSG Baden Baden	5	0	0	10	24	GER
3	SOCAR	4	1	0	8	23½	AZE
4	Ekonomist SGSEU Saratov	4	1	0	8	23½	RUS
5	Ugra	4	1	0	8	23	RUS
6	Mika	4	1	0	8	21½	ARM*
7	SHSM-64	4	1	0	8	21	RUS
8	A DAN DZO & PGMB	4	1	0	8	20	UKR
9	Tomsk-400	4	1	0	8	19½	RUS
10	G-Team Novy Bor	3	1	1	7	20½	CZE
11	Gros Xake Taldea	3	1	1	7	20½	ESP
12	Bosna Sarajevo	3	1	1	7	18½	BIH
13	Bolungarvik Chess Club	3	1	1	7	17	ISL*
14	Libertas Nereto	3	1	1	7	17	ITA

*Mika and Bolungarvik have the particularity of having no foreigh stars in their team.

Five of the top ten teams are based in Russia.

Women's Club Championship

Timisoara's good run came to an abrupt halt yesterday as they were trounced by AVS. Indeed four matches from five were rather one-sided.

Match Board	Seed Title	White (on odds)		Score	Seed Title	Black (on odds, white on evens)
1	4	AEM Luxten Timisoara		½ - 3½	2	AVS
1	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2525	0 : 1	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2528
2	IM	Zatonskih Anna	2508	0 : 1	GM	Lahno Kateryna	2554
3	IM	Javakhishvili Lela	2464	½:½	GM	Cmilyte Viktorija	2525
4	IM	Bodnaruk Anastasia	2417	0 : 1	WGM	Pogonina Natalija	2446
2	6	Giprorechtrans		1½ - 2½	3	Mika
1	GM	Zhukova Natalia	2416	1 : 0	GM	Danielian Elina	2517
2	IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	2465	½:½	IM	Harika Dronavalli	2505
3	IM	Zaiatz Elena	2441	0 : 1	GM	Zhu Chen	2490
4	IM	Vasilevich Irina	2393	0 : 1	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2475
3	5	SHSM-RGSU		3½ - ½	10	Anatolia
1	GM	Kosteniuk Alexandra	2469	1 : 0	WIM	Yildiz Betul Cemre	2308
2	IM	Gunina Valentina	2499	½:½	WIM	Ozturk Kubra	2260
3	IM	Romanko Marina	2409	1 : 0	WCM	Kaya Emel	1994
4	WGM	Kashlinskaya Alina	2385	1 : 0		Menzi Nezihe Ezgi	1887
4	1	Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo		4 - 0	9	ZSK Maribor
1	GM	Hou Yifan	2578	1 : 0	WFM	Dimitrijevic Aleksandra	2287
2	IM	Muzychuk Anna	2545	1 : 0	WGM	Srebrnic Ana	2222
3	GM	Cramling Pia	2489	1 : 0	WIM	Ankerst Milka	2084
4	GM	Socko Monika	2490	1 : 0		Orehek Spela	2020
5	11	Oslo Schakselskap		0 - 4	8	CS R. Fischer Chieti
1	WFM	Johnsen Sylvia	2038	0 : 1	IM	Fierro Baquero Martha L	2378
2	WFM	Frank-Nielsen Marie	2020	0 : 1	IM	Sedina Elena	2337
3		Khachatourian Yerazik	1967	0 : 1	IM	Zimina Olga	2337
4		Reppen Ellisiv	1969	0 : 1		Di Primio Eugenia	1974

In the table, the top three all have four match victories and one defeat.

Rank	Team	+	-	=	Match points	Board points	Country
1	Mika	4	1	0	8	14	ARM
2	AEM Luxten Timisoara	4	1	0	8	13½	ROM
3	AVS	4	1	0	8	13	RUS
4	SHSM-RGSU	3	1	1	7	13	RUS
5	Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo	3	2	0	6	14½	MNC
6	BAS	3	2	0	6	10½	SRB
7	Giprorechtrans	2	2	1	5	9½	RUS
8	CS R. Fischer Chieti	2	3	0	4	8½	ITA
9	Anatolia	2	3	0	4	6	TUR
10	ZSK Maribor	1	4	0	2	4½	SLO
11	Oslo Schakselskap	1	4	0	2	3	NOR

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