Corus Round 3 - Chucky And Moro Lose Again!
Can somebody please tell Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) and Alexander Morozevich that a draw is a permissible result in chess? The unpredictable duo are matching each other's results precisely - they both lost in the first round, won in the second, and now lost again in the third!
Ivanchuk lost to Radjabov's pet King's Indian defence and Morozevich became Kamsky's first victim. Ivanchuk was once again in desperate time-trouble during his game, but although he managed to make the time control this time, the position was complicated and 38 Rxc7 seems to be the losing mistake.
The results in round 3:
| Karjakin, Sergey | Wang Yue | ½-½ | 75 |
Sicilian Rossolimo |
| Kamsky, Gata | Morozevich, Alexander | 1-0 | 34 |
Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence |
| Carlsen, Magnus | Movsesian, Sergei | ½-½ | 39 |
Slav Defence |
| Aronian, Levon | Stellwagen, Daniel | ½-½ | 22 |
Caro Kann Exchange |
| Adams, Michael | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | ½-½ | 43 |
Sicilian Sozin Attack |
| Van Wely, Loek | Smeets, Jan | ½-½ | 30 |
Anti-Meran Gambit |
| Ivanchuk, Vassily | Radjabov, Teimour | 0-1 | 41 |
King's Indian Classical |
In the B Group, Nigel Short dusted off the ancient 4 knights opening to thrash poor Erwin L'ami in a mere 19 moves! Now that's what I call Short!
Also in the B Group, ratings favourite Sasikiran lost for the second game in a row to former FIDE champion Kasimdzhanov. His conqueror in the previous round, Hou Yifan, suffered a loss to Dmitri Reinderman and David Navara overcame Zahar Efimenko.
In the C Group David Howell finally broke his duck with a victory, and other winners in round three were Eduardo Iturrizaga, Manuel Leon Hoyos and Ati Bitalzadeh.
The standings after 3 rounds in all the groups:
| A GROUP | ||||
| 1 | Karjakin, Sergey | UKR | 2706 | 2 |
| 2 | Movsesian, Sergei | SVK | 2751 | 2 |
| 3 | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2761 | 2 |
| 4 | Smeets, Jan | NED | 2601 | 2 |
| 5 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2725 | 2 |
| 6 | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2776 | 1½ |
| 7 | Stellwagen, Daniël | NED | 2612 | 1½ |
| 8 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2750 | 1½ |
| 9 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | CUB | 2717 | 1½ |
| 10 | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2712 | 1 |
| 11 | Van Wely, Loek | NED | 2625 | 1 |
| 12 | Wang Yue | CHN | 2739 | 1 |
| 13 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2779 | 1 |
| 14 | Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 2771 | 1 |
| B GROUP | ||||
| 1 | Navara, David | CZE | 2638 | 2½ |
| 2 | Short, Nigel D | ENG | 2663 | 2½ |
| 3 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | UZB | 2687 | 2½ |
| 4 | Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2646 | 2 |
| 5 | Volokitin, Andrei | UKR | 2671 | 1½ |
| 6 | Werle, Jan | NED | 2607 | 1½ |
| 7 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | ESP | 2702 | 1½ |
| 8 | Reinderman, Dimitri | NED | 2549 | 1½ |
| 9 | Efimenko, Zahar | UKR | 2688 | 1½ |
| 10 | Motylev, Alexander | RUS | 2676 | 1 |
| 11 | L'Ami, Erwin | NED | 2603 | 1 |
| 12 | Hou Yifan | CHN | 2571 | 1 |
| 13 | Mecking, Henrique | BRA | 2567 | ½ |
| 14 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | IND | 2711 | ½ |
| C GROUP | ||||
| 1 | Bosboom, Manuel | NED | 2418 | 2½ |
| 2 | Iturrizaga, Eduardo | VEN | 2528 | 2½ |
| 3 | Romanishin, Oleg M | UKR | 2533 | 2 |
| 4 | So, Wesley | PHI | 2627 | 2 |
| 5 | Hillarp Persson, Tiger | SWE | 2586 | 2 |
| 6 | Harika, Dronavalli | IND | 2473 | 1½ |
| 7 | Pruijssers, Roeland | NED | 2444 | 1½ |
| 8 | Giri, Anish | RUS | 2469 | 1½ |
| 9 | Bitalzadeh, Ali | NED | 2400 | 1½ |
| 10 | Leon Hoyos, Manuel | MEX | 2542 | 1 |
| 11 | Howell, David W L | ENG | 2622 | 1 |
| 12 | Gupta, Abhijeet | IND | 2569 | 1 |
| 13 | Nijboer, Friso | NED | 2560 | ½ |
| 14 | Holzke, Frank | GER | 2524 | ½ |
