World Champion Magnus Carlsen singled out on the top of the standings after five rounds of play in the 2015 Qatar Masters Open.
Carlsen defeated Li Chao B of China and is now on 4,5/5 points, half a point ahead of the chasing pack of eight players.
Vijay Kumar presents the round 5 video including interviews with Dmitry Jakovenko, Nikita Vitiugov, Ruslan Ponomariov, Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, Esen Baris, Eesha Karavade and Shardul Gagare.
Round 5 results:
GM Carlsen Magnus 2834 – GM Li Chao B 2750 1 – 0
GM Giri Anish 2784 – GM So Wesley 2775 ½ – ½
GM Matlakov Maxim 2684 – GM Kramnik Vladimir 2796 0 – 1
GM Karjakin Sergey 2766 – GM Dubov Daniil 2655 1 – 0
GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2748 – GM Khismatullin Denis 2654 1 – 0
GM Yu Yangyi 2736 – Xu Yinglun 2470 1 – 0
GM Bologan Viktor 2654 – GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw 2723 ½ – ½
GM Korobov Anton 2713 – GM Swiercz Dariusz 2646 0 – 1
GM Salem A.R. Saleh 2622 – GM Ni Hua 2693 ½ – ½
GM Howell David W L 2688 – GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2648 0 – 1
GM Sjugirov Sanan 2646 – GM Hou Yifan 2683 ½ – ½
IM Vignesh N R 2422 – GM Fedoseev Vladimir 2664 ½ – ½
GM Harikrishna P. 2743 – GM Ipatov Alexander 2619 1 – 0
GM Bromberger Stefan 2521 – GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2737 0 – 1
GM Vitiugov Nikita 2724 – GM Zhang Zhong 2619 1 – 0
IM Gagare Shardul 2470 – GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2710 ½ – ½
GM Ponomariov Ruslan 2710 – GM Bluebaum Matthias 2590 1 – 0
GM Moiseenko Alexander 2689 – GM Tregubov Pavel V. 2589 0 – 1
GM Adhiban B. 2669 – GM Al-Sayed Mohammed 2520 0 – 1
IM Wang Yiye 2438 – GM Duda Jan-Krzysztof 2663 ½ – ½
GM Akopian Vladimir 2648 – GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2542 ½ – ½
GM Khairullin Ildar 2647 – IM Yuffa Daniil 2504 ½ – ½
GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2644 – GM Sundararajan Kidambi 2513 1 – 0
WGM Abdumalik Zhansaya 2390 – GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 2642 0 – 1
Raja Harshit 2325 – GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2638 ½ – ½
IM Pham Le Thao Nguyen 2319 – GM Grandelius Nils 2632 ½ – ½
GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2521 – GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2744 0 – 1
GM Harika Dronavalli 2513 – GM Shankland Samuel L 2646 + – –
GM Sethuraman S.P. 2639 – IM Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan 2494 1 – 0
GM Schroeder Jan-Christian 2511 – GM Piorun Kacper 2637 0 – 1
GM Naroditsky Daniel 2628 – IM Puranik Abhimanyu 2442 1 – 0
WGM Goryachkina Aleksandra 2493 – GM Lenderman Aleksandr 2626 0 – 1
GM Shoker Samy 2489 – GM Bartel Mateusz 2620 0 – 1
GM Lu Shanglei 2618 – Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh 2414 1 – 0
IM Sagar Shah 2441 – GM Hamdouchi Hicham 2597 0 – 1
GM Vocaturo Daniele 2597 – IM Abhishek Kelkar 2393 ½ – ½
IM Aryan Chopra 2436 – GM Bok Benjamin 2594 ½ – ½
GM Esen Baris 2562 – Firouzja Alireza 2372 1 – 0
FM Rohan Ahuja 2426 – GM Rambaldi Francesco 2560 ½ – ½
IM Lin Chen 2532 – IM Tissir Mohamed 2346 1 – 0
GM Xu Jun 2526 – Roy Prantik 2370 1 – 0
WGM Saduakassova Dinara 2407 – IM Svane Rasmus 2529 0 – 1
IM Vogel Roven 2439 – GM Wei Yi 2730 0 – 1
GM Khotenashvili Bela 2496 – FM Basso Pier Luigi 2438 ½ – ½
Fang Yuxiang 2438 – GM Zhukova Natalia 2488 ½ – ½
IM Padmini Rout 2437 – GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. 2486 0 – 1
IM Saiyn Zhanat 2394 – IM Tabatabaei M.Amin 2482 ½ – ½
GM Krush Irina 2468 – IM Karavade Eesha 2379 0 – 1
FM Li Di 2389 – FM Moroni Luca Jr 2466 1 – 0
IM Christiansen Johan-Sebastian 2385 – IM Ma Zhonghan 2463 0 – 1
IM Ali Marandi Cemil Can 2454 – Dai Changren 2328 1 – 0
IM Khademalsharieh Sarasadat 2380 – IM Lorparizangeneh Shahin 2454 ½ – ½
IM Guramishvili Sopiko 2368 – IM Kashlinskaya Alina 2448 ½ – ½
WIM Pratyusha Bodda 2260 – IM Firat Burak 2446 ½ – ½
GM Dzagnidze Nana 2559 – FM Goriatchkin Jouri 2318 1 – 0
IM Nezad Husein Aziz 2425 – IM Batsiashvili Nino 2498 1 – 0
IM Ezat Mohamed 2490 – IM Seyb Alexander 2425 ½ – ½
IM Sanal Vahap 2487 – WGM Pourkashiyan Atousa 2322 1 – 0
GM Neelotpal Das 2475 – FM Gholami Aryan 2422 ½ – ½
IM Ly Moulthun 2462 – IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy 2377 1 – 0
FM Haria Ravi 2416 – GM Carlsson Pontus 2433 0 – 1
FM Abdusattorov Nodirbek 2429 – WFM Vaishali R 2313 0 – 1
IM Li Ruofan 2372 – GM Venkatesh M.R. 2451 0 – 1
WGM Bartel Marta 2271 – Siva Mahadevan 2400 1 – 0
IM Slavin Alexey 2388 – WIM Bivol Alina 2344 0 – 1
WIM Derakhshani Dorsa 2307 – IM Piasetski Leon 2287 ½ – ½
