Adam Raoof outplayed David Iwi in fine positional style, to take the sole lead going into the 6th round of the club championship. Michael Bennett moved into 2nd place by beating Vivian Cohen, and is followed closely by defending champion Jonathan Landau, Chris Jones, and David Iwi.
| White | Black | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raoof, Adam N | 175 | 1 - 0 | Iwi, David | 141 |
| 2 | Bennett, Michael K | - | 1 - 0 | Cohen, Vivian | 123 |
| 3 | Landau, Jonathan | 153 | 1 - 0 | Pattni, Kishan | 102 |
| 4 | Rogal, Chris | 138 | ½ - ½ | - | |
| 5 | Jones, Chris S | 130 | 1 - 0 | Ainscow, Faye | 89 |
| 6 | Gesthuysen, M | 133 | 1 - 0 | Limonov, Petr | - |
| 7 | Lennard, Graeme | 104 | 0 - 1 | Chai, Kwong | - |
| 8 | Sabin, Frank | 106 | 0 - 1 | Brown, Anthony D | |
| 9 | Sabin, Andrew | - | 0 - 1 | Jones, David | 129 |
| 10 | Bhalla, Raj | - | 1 - 0 | Murphy, Nick | 80 |
| 11 | Pliskin, Raymond | 80 | 1 - 0 | Kiskin, Ivan | 96 |
| 12 | Samet, S | 73 | 1 - 0 | Lande, Edwin | - |