Carlsen is tops

Magnus Carlsen

The big 2800 clash between Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian was won by the Norwegian wunderkid in the longest game of the round. The other winners were Teimour Radjabov (now on 2/3) and Sergey Karjakin who gets off the mark. Two players have perfect scores: Pentala Harikrishna in the B-group and Maxim Turov in the C-Group lead with 100%..

Here is the summary of the third round games:

Group-A:

White	Country	Rating	Result	Black	Country	Rating	Moves	Opening
Gata Kamsky	USA	2732	½-½	Vassily Ivanchuk	UKR	2766	30	Slav 4...g6
Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2769	1-0	Anish Giri	NED	2714	37	French Tarrasch
Magnus Carlsen	NOR	2835	1-0	Levon Aronian	ARM	2805	68	Queen's Gambit Declined 3...Be7
Loek Van Wely	NED	2692	½-½	Vugar Gashimov	AZE	2761	23	English vs. Hedgehog
Boris Gelfand	ISR	2739	½-½	Veselin Topalov	BUL	2770	35	Semi-Slav 6.Qc2
Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2759	½-½	Fabiano Caruana	ITA	2736	42	Grünfeld Exchange
Teimour Radjabov	AZE	2773	1-0	David Navara	CZE	2712	32	Neo-Grünfeld

The points tally:

Seed	Name	Age	FED	Elo	World rank	Points
1	Magnus Carlsen	21	NOR	2835	1	2.5
2	Levon Aronian	29	ARM	2805	2	2
3	Teimour Radjabov	24	AZE	2773	5	2
4	Veselin Topalov	36	BUL	2770	6	1.5
5	Sergey Karjakin	22	RUS	2769	7	1
6	Vassily Ivanchuk	42	UKR	2766	8	1.5
7	Vugar Gashimov	25	AZE	2761	10	1
8	Hikaru Nakamura	24	USA	2759	12	1
9	Boris Gelfand	43	ISR	2739	16	1
10	Fabiano Caruana	19	ITA	2736	17	2
11	Gata Kamsky	37	USA	2732	20	1.5
12	Anish Giri	17	NED	2714	28	1.5
13	David Navara	26	CZE	2712	30	1
14	Loek Van Wely	39	NED	2692	54	1.5

Magnus Carlsen now becomes the sole leader.

Group-B:

White	Country	Rating	Result	Black	Country	Rating
Lazaro Bruzon	CUB	2691	½-½	Alexander Motylev	RUS	2677
Kateryna Lahno	UKR	2557	½-½	Dimitri Reinderman	NED	2581
Harika Dronavalli	IND	2516	0-1	Pentala Harikrishna	IND	2665
Viktorija Cmilyte	LTU	2503	1-0	Sipke Ernst	NED	2606
Erwin L'Ami	NED	2606	1-0	Daniele Vocaturo	ITA	2545
Jan Timman	NED	2568	1-0	Illya Nyzhnyk	UKR	2568
Vladimir Potkin	RUS	2684	0-1	Sergei Tiviakov	NED	2677

The points so far:

Rk	Name	Age	FED	Elo	World rank	Points
1	Lazaro Bruzon Batista	29	CUB	2691	55	1
2	Vladimir Potkin	29	RUS	2684	65	1
3	Sergei Tiviakov	38	NED	2677	70	2
4	Alexander Motylev	32	RUS	2677	72	1.5
5	Pentala Harikrishna	25	IND	2665	82	3
6	Sipke Ernst	33	NED	2606	-	0.5
7	Erwin L'Ami	26	NED	2596	-	2.5
8	Dimitri Reinderman	39	NED	2581	-	1.5
9	Jan Timman	60!	NED	2571	-	1.5
10	Illya Nyzhnyk	15	UKR	2568	-	1.5
11	Kateryna Lahno	22	UKR	2557	5w	1.5
12	Daniele Vocaturo	22	ITA	2545	-	1.5
13	Dronavalli Harika	21	IND	2516	11w	1
14	Viktorija Cmilyte	28	LTU	2503	16w	1

Harikrishna still has 100%.

Group-C:

White	Country	Rating	Result	Black	Country	Rating
Tania Sachdev	IND	2411	½-½	Pieter Hopman	NED	2342
Elisabeth Paehtz	GER	2454	½-½	Matthew Sadler	ENG	2660
Daan Brandenburg	NED	2527	½-½	Sahaj Grover	IND	2532
Baskaran Adhiban	IND	2561	½-½	Hans Tikkanen	SWE	2549
Etienne Goudriaan	NED	2279	1-0	Lars Ootes	NED	2326
Elina Danielian	ARM	2490	½-½	Anne Haast	NED	2290
Maxim Turov	RUS	2645	1-0	Lisa Schut	NED	2290