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Participants grandmaster group B Name Country Rating GM Krishnan Sasikiran IND 2694 GM Zahar Efimenko UKR 2680 GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov UZB 2672 GM Alexander Motylev RUS 2672 GM Francisco Vallejo Pons ESP 2664 GM Andrei Volokitin UKR 2659 GM Nigel Short ENG 2642 GM Fabiano Caruana ITA 2640 GM David Navara CZE 2633 GM Erwin l'Ami NED 2610 GM Jan Werle NED 2582 WGM Hou Yifan CHN 2578 GM Henrique Mecking BRA 2567 GM Dimitri Reinderman NED 2543

Breaking news. Details to follow soon. Navara beat Korchnoi in a French Defence game. Almasi beat Marin - Ruy Lopez game. Ni Hua beat Tiviakov in a Center Counter game (Scandinavian). Godena drew Landa in a Sicilian Alapin game. Results of Round 5 at Reggio Emilia Godena - Landa 0.5 - 0.5 Navara - Korchnoi 1 - 0 Almasi - Marin 1 - 0 Ni Hua - Tiviakov 1 - 0 Gashimov - Harikrishna 0.5 - 0.5 Standings after Round 5: Almasi - 3.5 pts Gashimov, Harikrishna, Landa, Ni Hua - 3 pts Marin, Tiviakov, Navara, Korchnoi - 2 points Godena - 1.5 pts

There are four leaders now at the top at the Reggio Emilia chess tournament 2007 - 2008. Harikrishna beat everybody's favorite whipping boy in this tournament, Navara. One suspects Navara is a bit lacking in confidence in this tournament. Hope he soon starts fighting back as he is capable of. Harikrisha's comeback after his first round loss to Almasi is already impressive. It bodes well for him for the near future where he will play in the GM Group B section of the Corus Chess Championship at Wijk aan Zee, which starts after Reggio Emilia. Tiviakov beat another favorite whipping boy, Godena while Ni Hua held Korchnoi to a draw. Godena obviously walked into Tiviakov's preparation in a French Defence game. He was slowly ground to his defeat. Standings after Round 4: Zoltan Almasi, Vugar Gashimov, Konstantin Landa, P Harikrishna - 2.5 Ni Hua, Mihail Marin, Sergei Tiviakov, Godena, David Navara - 2