Reggio Emilia Chess Tournament R5: Vallejo Pons maintains lead

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Grandmaster Francisco Vallejo Pons is in good form as he holds on to his lead at the 53rd Reggio Emilia Masters Chess Tournament in Italy. All the games were drawn in the fifth round except for Vassily Ivanchuk beating Michele Godena and moved to the second spot.

Meanwhile, the 1st Rapid 'Torneo di Capodanno Reggio Emilia' was held on January 2 with the participation of strong Italian and foreign players. The winner was WGM Yulia Kochetkova, second was FM Andrea Stella, a young Italian player, and 3rd place went to Italian women Olympic player IM Olga Zimina. All of them scored 6.5 out of 8.

Rapid winners WGM Yulia Kochetkova,

FM Andrea Stella and IM Olga Zimina

Standings after 5 rounds

1.	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2698	4
2.	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2764	3
3.	Movsesian, Sergei	g	SVK	2721	2½
4.	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2709	2½
5.	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2683	2½
6.	Short, Nigel	g	ENG	2680	2½
7.	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2733	2½
8.	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2700	2½
9.	Navara, David	g	CZE	2708	2
10.	Godena, Michele	g	ITA	2549	1

You can check the official website here. Meanwhile, here is the nice Godena-Ivanchuk game from Round 5. You can run the moves in our pgnplayer or watch in flash below.

PGN: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. O-O Be7 7. e5 Ne4 8. Nxd4 O-O 9. Nf5 Nc5 10. Qg4 g6 11. Bxc6 dxc6 12. Nxe7+ Qxe7 13. Qe2 Re8 14. Re1 Bf5 15. Nc3 Rad8 16. h3 h5 17. Bh6 Ne6 18. Be3 Qb4 19. Rab1 Nd4 20. Bxd4 Rxd4 21. a3 Qc5 22. Qe3 Rc4 23. Rbc1 Kg7 24. Qg3 h4 25. Qh2 Re6 26. Re3 a5 27. g4 hxg3 28. Qxg3 Qe7 29. Ne2 g5 30. c3 c5 31. f4 Rg6 32. Kh2 gxf4 0-1

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