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Efimenko is one of four leaders, and having drawn with Black today against Jobava has the advantage of playing with White tomorrow.
Nisipeanu, who beat Pelletier, and Timofeev, who overcame Skiborne, make up the four at the top.

On the top boards fifteen of these players started the day on 3.5 points. The exceptions being the top board, where Jobava and Efimenko still had a perfect score, and Zoltan Almasi who was on three points but floated up to play the 199th seed Tamir Nabaty!
The unknown junior from Israel doesn't yet have a FIDE title, but presumably won't have to wait for long on this performance, despite today's loss!
There were 66 players on 3/4 and, just to show how tough this event is, four 2700+ players only had 2.5/4.
The seventeen leading players come from thirteen different countries, with three coming from Russia (hardly surprising!) and three also from Roumania (hardly believable!).
Wins by Nisipeanu and Timofeev and a draw on the top board leaves the tournament with four leaders on 4.5/5.

1	GM	Baadur Jobava (4)	GEO	2695	0.5-0.5	GM	Zahar Efimenko (4)	UKR	2640
2	GM	Ivan Sokolov	BIH	2638	0.5-0.5	GM	Francisco Vallejo Pons	ESP	2708
3	GM	Viorel Iordachescu	MDA	2621	0.5-0.5	GM	Michael Adams	ENG	2704
4	GM	Ernesto Inarkiev	RUS	2667	0.5-0.5	GM	Gergely-Andras-Gyula Szabo	ROU	2525
5	GM	Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu	ROU	2661	1-0	GM	Yannick Pelletier	SUI	2611
6	GM	Constantin Lupulescu	ROU	2598	0.5-0.5	GM	Ian Nepomniachtchi	RUS	2656
7	GM	Artyom Timofeev	RUS	2655	1-0	IM	Jure Skoberne	SLO	2509
8	GM	Nikita Maiorov	BLR	2510	0.5-0.5	GM	Rauf Mamedov	AZE	2639
9	GM	Zoltan Almasi (3)	HUN	2720	1-0	-	Tamir Nabaty	ISR	2485

Monika Socko

Leader Monika Socko drew with the Black pieces against third seed Anna Muzychuk. Boards two to four featured the other players who were within half-a-point of the Polish Grandmaster, whose husband is playing in the men's event. Before the round, twenty-five players had three points, seven 3.5 and just the one had 100%.
The leading eight players representing eight different nationalities.
After five rounds, three women are now in the lead, Tatiana Kosintseva and Arakhamia-Grant joining Socko on 4.5/5.
The three nationalities at the top are a Russian, a Pole and a Scot (although Arakhamia was a Georgian at birth)!

1	IM	Anna Muzychuk (3.5)	SLO	2533	0.5-0.5	GM	Monika Socko (4)	POL	2465
2	GM	Tatiana Kosintseva (3.5)	RUS	2524	1-0	IM	Almira Skripchenko (3.5)	FRA	2456
3	GM	Pia Cramling (3.5)	SWE	2523	0-1	GM	Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (3.5)	SCO	2447
4	WGM	Lilit Galojan (3.5)	ARM	2380	0.5-0.5	IM	Viktoija Cmilyte (3.5)	LTU	2485
5	GM	Antoaneta Stefanova (3)	BUL	2555	1-0	IM	Eva Moser (3)	AUT	2437
6	IM	Nadezhda Kosintseva (3)	RUS	2554	1-0	IM	Marina Romanko (3)	RUS	2409
7	GM	Marie Sebag (3)	FRA	2506	0.5-0.5	IM	Nino Khurtsidze (3)	GEO	2434
8	IM	Svetlana Matveeva (3)	RUS	2373	1-0	IM	Lela Javakhishvili (3)	GEO	2500

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