The largest international tournament involving world champions of recent years Viswanathan Anand (India, rating - 2785), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2753) and Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine, 2695) continues in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Besides them, the strongest female chess player of our time Judit Polgar (Hungary, 2732), the third and seventh in the rating Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, 2778) and Michael Adams (England, 2737) are taking part in the competition. \n \nThe main feature of the tournament is the introduction of a new rule. For the first time in the history of chess, participants are forbidden to communicate with each other, that is, one cannot offer a draw to an opponent until the position has become theoretically drawn. \n \nIn the fifth round, the Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov defeated Veselin Topalov on move 40. On move 11, the Bulgarian grandmaster chose a fairly natural continuation, which, however, was refuted by Ponomariov's spectacular tactical strike. \n \nIn the other games, Anand drew with Adams, and Kramnik outplayed Polgar in a protracted struggle. \n \nThus, after the first round, Adams and Kramnik lead, having scored three points each out of five. Anand and Ponomariov have 2.5. Polgar and Topalov are half a point further behind. \n \nAt the same time, Lviv grandmaster Vasyl Ivanchuk consolidated his lead at the \n40th international tournament "Capablanca Memorial", which is being held from May 5-19 in Cuba and has FIDE category 15). In the 8th and 9th rounds, the Ukrainian defeated the Cuban Leinier Dominguez and the Georgian Baadur Jobava, respectively, and pulled two points ahead of the representative of the island of freedom - Delgado. \n