The tournament has registered three wins in the twelve games and the players are showing their personality on the board meeting the expectations with very competitive matches.
Chess players have a recognizable identity on the board. A profile that reveals their personality, their character, which they sometimes hide by strategy. At this start of the tournament, with a very high level of combat and dense games, the players are being true to themselves.
The American Fabiano Caruna, one of the favourites, leads the table together with the Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi. Fabi suffocated Nakamura in the opening with a Berlin opening with white, to concede on Saturday to Nepo some tables in an advantageous situation that show their lack of fang. The Russian caused an upset on the first day by overthrowing the misplaced Ding with Black. the volcanic Nepomniachtchi it is the antithesis of Caruana. But it is more unstable, bad in the medium term. Nakamura, for his part, promised fun to his millions of followers and is delivering in two of his three games there was a winner. Nakamura, who comes to vindicate himself as a classical chess player, confessed: “Playing the Candidates for Madrid I lose money, because I win more than streamer”.
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to polish Doubtsolvent in the opening and the middle game, he choked on the endings, where he let escape alive ling and even rapport unrecognizable. The creative Hungarian player suffered on Friday, showing the profile of him more tenacious of him to achieve a draw. On Saturday he spared the life of Firouzja and closed on Sunday with other boards. The Franco-Iranian prodigy has suffered more than he enjoyed. With surgical precision he saved two boards worked on the first two days and this Sunday he sought victory without luck for five hours.
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The Chinese Ding Liren, another favorite, is settling. He fell on the first day Nepoevidencing that he had not yet assimilated the jet lag after landing a few hours before in Madrid. He changed his chair on the second day, being the only one playing with a loss, to rescue a draw with Black against Duda in a duel in which he always slipstreamed. He says he feels better as the days go by, which should alert his rivals. the parsimonious Radjabov let escape alive Firouzja on Friday, falling with Nakamura in the second and added tables in the third with Nepo.
All draws in Round 3 and the standings are:
1-2. Caruana, Nepomniachtchi – 2 points
3-6. Doubt, Firouzja, Rapport, Nakamura – 1.5
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The tournament meets expectations and forecasts. And at the end of this third day the classification is as follows: Caruana and Nepomniachtchi add 2 points, with 1.5 are Rapport, Duda, Nakamura and Firouzja, and 1 point have Ding and Radbajov. This Monday it’s time to rest.