The headline is a reference someone's joke - Hans Kmoch's, I think - about the 1963/4 U.S. Championship. Bobby Fischer went 11-0, while Larry Evans was second with something like 7.5 points. Kmoch congratulated Evans on winning the tournament and Fischer on winning the exhibition, as if he had been giving a simul to amateurs. Well, after day 1 of the Leo Tolstoy Cup (so named because the event is being held at the writer's estate, and not because it runs far longer than necessary*) something similar is afoot. After five of the nine rounds of this rapid tournament, Anish Giri is 5-0, while his closest pursuers - six of them, and they're not fish - have 2.5 points apiece.
That chase pack consists of Evgeny Tomashevsky, David Paravyan, Boris Gelfand, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Maxim Matlakov, and Anton Korobov, and then former Candidate Dmitry Andreikin has 2 points, almost-Candidate Nikita Vitiugov has 1.5, along with former Candidate Kirill Alekseenko. Can Giri go 9-0? That would be very impressive, and it will be a decisive win even if he doesn't, barring a collapse for the ages.
* Yes, I have read War and Peace, cover to cover. My impression was that he wrote the 1200+ page monster for the sake of a didactic 20-page diatribe fairly late in the book that interrupted the narrative of the book, solely for the sake of expressing some of his philosophical views. I'll take Dostoyevsky instead, thank you very much.