The 5th round of the Tony Locke Rapidplay has now been made. There are still a number of games from earlier rounds outstanding but the leaders at this stage are Matt Stemp, Svein Kjenner, and Clive Bellinger, though there are a lot of players only half a point behind. For the purposes of making the draw games not played so far have been assumed to be draws.
While there were only 6 rounds originally planned, the tournament controller reserves the right to add a 7th round if there is no clear winner after 6 rounds.
Draw for round 5:
| Clive Bellinger | V | Svein Kjenner |
| Matt Stemp | V | Felix Schnell |
| Mark Johnson | V | Norbert Voelker |
| Brian Remmer | V | Nathan Barnes |
| Denzel Gonzales | V | Phil Daley |
| Dave Chatfield | V | John Duff-Cole |
| Ed Goodman | V | Pete Smith |
| Martin Harris | BYE |
Currently the outstanding games are (if any of these matches have taken place, results have not been reported):
| WHITE | BLACK | |
| Phil Daley | V | Felix Schnell |
| Felix Schnell | V | Mark Johnson |
| Martin Harris | V | Ed Goodman |
| John Duff-Cole | V | Pete Smith |
| Mark Johnson | V | Brian Remmer |
| Felix Schnell | V | Clive Bellinger |
| Nathan Barnes | V | Denzel Gonzales |
| Phil Daley | V | Mark Johnson |
