Like in the previous round, all games in the 5th round of the Tal Memorial in Moscow ended in draws. Levon Aronian, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin continue to share the lead, with 3/5. On Monday the tournament will have its first and only rest day.

Anand and Kramnik split the point in round 5 | All photos © RCF

In case you missed it, at the Tal Memorial draw offers before move 40 are not allowed (the same rule that will be applied in every ECU event from next year). Although move repetitions have ended games earlier here and there, it still means that by now the players must be longing for that rest day of tomorrow. Magnus Carlsen, who drew against Vassily Ivanchuk today after 6.5 hours of play, tweeted:

Another draw today, this time I'm quite relieved that the position was still a draw after I blundered. Much needed rest day tomorrow

This must have been about Black's 61st move where Carlsen was suddenly forced to give an exchange, after having had the advantage for most of the game.

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After trying for long to win a slightly better ending, Carlsen blundered but eventually drew by stalemate

Vishy Anand drew his fifth game, against Vladimir Kramnik. The two came to the same result the last eight times they met at the chess board, in 2010 and 2011 (not taking into account the team match with Humpy Koneru and Tatiana Kosintseva during the Botvinnik Memorial in September).

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Anand and Kramnik with, between them, host GM Maxim Dlugy, who lives in Moscow and has his own investment management business

Nakamura is not unsatisfied about his play so far. After today's game against Aronian he tweeted:

Not playing too badly, just a couple of costly mistakes against Svidler and Nepo. Nevertheless, 4 more chances to get on the scoreboard!

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In his game against Boris Gelfand, Ian Nepomniachtchi showed how hard he has worked on his Grünfeld. He responded well against White's 4.Bg5 line and got a small advantage. With a positional exchange sacrifice the Israeli avoided bigger trouble.

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Contrary to normal practice, we've saved the quickest draw for last:

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Svidler and Karjakin enjoying the post-mortem of their spectacular draw

Tal Memorial 2011 | Round 5 Standings

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