Bu Xiangzhi takes lead in Danzhou

After his first round win against Pentala Harikrishna Bu Xiangzhi also won with White against Vassily Ivanchuk. In an interesting game that for a long time had been equal the 30-year old Chinese succeeded in the endgame.

After beating Ding Liren with the Scotch Opening in round 1, Ian Nepomniachtchi also beat Wang Yue with the Scoth. However, for a long time the game seemed to be headed for a draw but then Wang Yue mishandled the endgame and lost.

The third winner of the third round was Pentala Harikrishna. He played against Ding Liren and they discussed a heavily analysed and complicated line of the Open Spanish. When the theoretical duel was over Ding Liren committed a number of inaccuracies and allowed the Indian Grandmaster to win the game with a nice tactical idea.

Standings after three rounds

Rg.		Name	Elo	Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pkt.	TB 1	TB 2	TB 3
1	GM	Bu Xiangzhi	2723	CHN	*						1	½	1		2,5	0,0	1,0	3,00
2	GM	Yu Yangyi	2734	CHN		*	1	½		½					2,0	1,0	2,0	3,50
3	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	2725	RUS		0	*		1					1	2,0	0,0	1,0	2,00
4	GM	Leko Peter	2712	HUN		½		*	½			½			1,5	0,0	1,0	2,25
5	GM	Wang Yue	2730	CHN			0	½	*			1			1,5	0,0	0,5	1,75
6	GM	Wang Hao	2734	CHN		½				*			½	½	1,5	0,0	0,5	1,75
7	GM	Harikrishna P.	2755	IND	0						*		½	1	1,5	0,0	0,0	1,00
8	GM	Hou Yifan	2653	CHN	½			½	0			*			1,0	0,0	1,0	2,00
9	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2728	UKR	0					½	½		*		1,0	0,0	1,0	1,50
10	GM	Ding Liren	2778	CHN			0			½	0			*	0,5	0,0	0,5	0,75

Games - Rounds 1 to 3

Schedule

08.07 2016 - Round 1 - 14.30
09.07 2016 - Round 2 - 14.30
10.07 2016 - Round 3 - 14.30
11.07 2016 - Round 4 - 14.30
12.07 2016 - Round 5 - 14.30
13.07 2016 - Round 6 - 14.30
REST DAY
15.07 2016 - Round 7 - 14.30
16.07 2016 - Round 8 - 14.30
17.07 2016 - Round 9 - 10.30

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