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The fifth round of the FIDE World Chess Sharjah Grand Prix was played at the Sharjah Cultural and Chess Club, Chess federation of Armenia reported.

According to the source, the tournament co-leaders Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave maintained the position on the top by making relatively quick draws against Hikaru Nakamura and Levon Aronian, respectively.
The standings got a bit more crowded on the shared third place, where Nakamura is joined by Michael Adams, Dmitry Jakovenko and Alexander Grischuk, all of whom were victorious today.
Jakovenko scored a quick and easy victory after his compatriot Alexander Riazantsev blundered horribly on move 19.

Adams applied his trademark squeeze to slowly outplay Jon Ludvig Hammer. Black was simply unable to defend all the weak pawns.

Grischuk found a way to achieve slight opening advantage against the fashionable line of the Ragozin Queen’s Gambit. Pavel Eljanov rushed into the ending by trading the queens, but it appears that this only helped white. Grischuk patiently pressed the opponent until he finally reached a winning rook ending.