The perfect scores are no more at the Isle of Man International after today's draw between Wang Hao and Arkadij Naiditsch. There were a lot of draws on the top boards, but two players caught up: Jeffery Xiong, who defeated Richard Rapport with Black in a very interesting game; and Abhijeet Gupta, who outplayed his younger and higher-rated compatriot (and birthday boy) Vidit Gujrathi with White. They lead a group of seven four-pointers including Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura, and Sergey Karjakin - the latter winning the very rare two knights vs. pawn ending against Sam Sevian. 27 players are another half a point behind, including 11 players rated over 2700. In fact, the top seven seeds, excluding third-seed MVL, are in that score group.
Here are the leading pairings for round 6:
Apparently Naiditsch is taking a bye. Here are the three games mentioned above.