Aided by his brilliant victory, Nakamura stormed into sole lead with his fifth win on the trot and the American is now followed by five players including top seed Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria -- a half point behind.
Harikrishna slipped to the joint sixth spot after his second straight draw and the highest rated Indian here shares this spot with 16-others.
Grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Sandipan Chanda, V Vishnu Prasanna and Adhiban are also on four points at the half way stage in this 175000 Pounds Sterling tournament.
The day's best result from the Indian perspective was recorded by Grandmaster M R Venkatesh who got the better of higher-ranked English Grandmaster Gawain Jones in the upset of the day. Venkatesh moved to 3.5 points almost putting an end to the hopes of Jones in this event.
Apart from Venkatesh, V Vishnu Prasanna continued with his impressive form at the expense of Sebastian Bogner of Switzerland while Neelotpal Das outwitted Mateusz Bartel of Poland to also move to 3.5 points.
Adhiban was caught off-guard in the opening. Nakamura with his black pieces sprang an early surprise by going for the Queen's gambit accepted on his second turn. Known for his bold and positive play, Adhiban went for a principled variation but the American had prepared a shocker.
Adhiban won a rook for a minor piece early in the opening but Nakamura got good piece-play as compensation. As the game progressed, Adhiban missed a tactical trick and ended up losing a minor piece after which the resulting technicalities were child's play for Nakamura. The game lasted 55 moves.
Harikrishna was stretched and did not get his pieces rolling after attaining a slight advantage out of a French Tarrasch. Playing white, Harikrishna was matched move-for-move by Lenderman who even threatened to become better in the endgame that ensued. The damage however was easily controlled by Harikrishna and the peace was signed in 60 moves.
Among other Indians in the fray, M R Lalith Babu went down to Yangyi Yu of China after putting up a brave front. An irregular opening led to Yangyi attacking on the king side while Babu got a central breakthrough. The Indian however fell prey to a wrong pawn sacrifice in the middle game and lost after 41 moves.
Important and Indian results round 5 (Indians unless specified): B Adhiban (4) lost to Hikaru Nakamura (Usa, 5); Renier Vazquez Igarza (Esp, 4.5) drew with Wei Yi (Chn, 4.5); Anton Guijarro David (Esp, 3.5) lost to Veselin Topalov (Bul, 4.5); Viktor Bologan (Mda, 4) drew with Peter Svidler (Rus, 4); M R Lalith Babu (3.5) lost to Yangyi Yu (Chn, 4.5); P Harikrishna (4) drew with Aleksandr Lenderman (Usa, 4); Grigoriy Oprin (Rus, 4) drew with Yifan Hou (Chn, 4); David Howell (Eng, 4.5) beat A.R. Saleh Salem (Uae, 3.5); Debashis Das (3.5) drew with Ivan Cheparinov (Bul, 3.5); M Shyam Sundar (3.5) drew with Alexander Motylev (Rus, 3.5); S P Sethuraman (3.5) drew with Alexander Donchenko (Ger, 3.5); Gudmundur Kjartansson (Isl, 3) lost to Surya Shekhar Ganguly (4); Sandipan Chanda (4) beat Kristian Stuvik Holm (Nor, 3); V Vishnu Prasanna (4) beat Sebastian Bogner (Sui, 3); M R Venkatesh (3.5) beat Gawain Jones (Eng, 2.5); Neelotpal Das (3.5) beat Mateusz Bartel (Pol, 2.5); Hannes Stefansson (Isl, 3.5) beat Eesha Karavade (2.5); Deep Sengupta (3) drew with Stefan Kuipers (Ned, 3); Erik Blomqvist (Swe, 2.5) lost to Soumya Swaminathan (3.5); D Harika (3) beat Ellinor Frisk (Swe, 2); Galmandakh Badrakh (Mgl, 2) lost to Arghyadip Das (3); Tobias Hellwig (Ger, 2) lost to Padmini Rout (3).
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