The Ugra nominee in the FIDE Grand Prix, Dmitry Jakovenko, bounced back to 50% score after defeating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the 5th round.
The French player suffered second consecutive loss after a terrible oversight that cost him a pawn.
Sergey Karjakin grinded Evgeny Tomashevsky in a marathon game that lasted seven hours and 99 moves. White eventually found the way to take advantage of the pair of bishops.
The remaining four games were drawn.
