Editor’s note: This report will be updated shortly with photography. But round 6 is already underway, so it makes sense to get the results and games reported on quickly.
In yesterday’s report, I counted 212 players with perfect scores across the six Championship sections in Orlando. After three more rounds on Saturday, that number has dwindled to 11. (Note: first-person usage in the body of the report refers to the author, but first-person usage in annotations refers to the streamer/annotator WGM Sabina Foisor).
With the final two rounds taking place today at 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. (except K-1 sections, where those times are 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.), there are clear frontrunners in every section. In the three “oldest” sections, only one player enters with 5/5, and in the three elementary sections, the two unblemished scores will face off in round 6…