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IM Rathnakaran Here are some noteworthy results of Round 5 live! K Rathnakaran and P Shyam Nikil maintained their all win record after the fifth round of the Mumbai Mayor's cup by winning against co-leaders Himanshu Sharma and K Priyadarshan. The other leaders, Enamul Hossain and S Sathyapragyan drew their match and thus fell behind by 0.5 points. Results: Enamul Hossain drew S Satyapragyan K Rathnakaran  bt Himanshu Sharma P Shyam Nikil bt K Priyadarshan A Aleksandrov bt R R Laxman R Siddharth lost to Kravtsiv

18 year old Martyn Kravtsiv and the recently crowned Alexandra Kosteniuk won the Open and Women's individual blitz chess championship at the First Word Mind Sports Games. The Open winner was a surprise since Kravtsiv is No. 33 in the Ukraine and is only an International Master according to FIDE . It shows the amazing depth of the top Chess nations. More details on the FIDE site