Russian Championship. As it was after round 1, so it is again after round 5: Peter Svidler is again in clear first. Svidler defeated Artyom Timofeev with the black pieces, thanks largely, it seems, to Timofeev's time trouble. After 29 moves, Timofeev was at least equal, but then started sliding downhill from that point, falling completely off the cliff with his last move, 34.Ng4?? self-mating his queen.
Alexander Morozevich had been co-leading, but he not only failed to win this round, he lost a rook ending to Ian Nepomniachtchi that probably should have been drawn. (That doesn't mean it was trivial - obviously, since he lost it - but drawn nonetheless.) Remarkably, he's still in clear second, half a point ahead of Sergey Karjakin (who drew with Alexander Galkin) and fifth round opponents Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Grischuk, who drew quickly by repetition.
With two rounds to go Svidler has 4/5, Morozevich 3, the trio mentioned in the final sentence of the preceding paragraph 2.5, Galkin 2 and Timofeev 1.
World Juniors. Robert Hovhannisyan has drawn his last two games, but that's still good enough to keep him in clear first. He has 9/11, half a point more than Samvel Ter-Sahakyan and Dariusz Swiercz and a point more than the four next closest pursuers, including Ray Robson. Two rounds remain. Remarkably, Koushik Girish has lost three in a row, while Axel Rombaldoni finally managed a draw after a three-game skid of his own. Both started fantastically, but then crumbled after their first loss, as if their ratings and non-GM titles mattered more than everything they had done up to that point. It reminds me of the following:
(The relevant gag starts at around :45 into the video.)
FIDE Women's Grand Prix. A few days ago some genius claimed that Hou Yifan was practically a "mortal lock" to win the event; after all, she was two points ahead of Tatiana Kosintseva with three rounds to go. Hou hasn't finished so strongly, losing her first game of the tournament (to Kateryna Lahno) and drawing today, but her 7.5/10 still has her a point ahead of Lahno and T. Kosintseva with a round to go. She'll even have White in the last round, against Antoaneta Stefanova (who is -1 for the event), so she should still be in good enough shape to finish in clear first.