 Round 5 of the World Youth Chess Olympiad 2019 has been played today. There were a lot of tense fights in today’s match-ups and most of them ended in a decisive result. Kazkhstan has been the winner of the top board against Belarus with a 3 – 1 score. Belarusian team was hit from boards 3 and 4 where FM Arystan Isanzhulov(2305) won the complex Sicilian struggle with White pieces while WFM Nazerke Nurgali (2194) picked the solid Carokann correctly for the win.
Boards 2, 3, 4 and 5 saw the same result of 2.5 – 1.5 which indicates the intensity of the fight. Top seed Azerbaijan defeated Israel for the second place after the fifth round. Meanwhile, Abdusattorov’s Uzbekistan beat United States for 9 match points and the third place. With this result, 3 teams share the lead with 9 points.
Round 6 starts at 10:00 local time (GMT +3) and pairings for top 3 boards are as follows:
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