- Sinquefield Round 3 : Caruana Big Boss after defeating Carlsen -

3/3! Fabiano couldn't hope for a better start...

Nine games and only three draws for the time being. What a start !
What to say about the performance of the italian GM? Amazing ! For the time being, it is just perfect.
Caruana is already 2 points ahead of the world champion and solidly installed on the second rank in the live rating with 2815... Amazing...




Carlsen 0-1 Caruana
In this bishop opening, Caruana equalised quit easily when the world champion gone for a bishop sacrifice on f7. It appeared that this one was ineffective, and Caruana took the initiative. Carlsen looked for some counterplea, but Caruana played precisely on the key moments and finally, the world champion blundered in time pressure, in a difficult position.
After the duel between Karpov and Kasparov - the two K - may be we are in the dawn of a new great duel, the "two Ca".

MVL 1-0 Aronian
The french GM clearly won a game where Aronian overestimated his position, thinking that "a pawn is pawn". But it appeared that a pair of bishops, with opened lines, with a clear advance of development are better than being a pawn up...

Topalov 1-0 Nakamura
Topalov was in big trouble out of the opening, and, after allowing a piece sacrifice in f2, looked almost going for his third loss in a row.
But Nakamura badly rejected the sacrifice, and white's pieces activity started to be very annoying... In time trouble, Nakamura miscalculated again and finally resigned.

Commentaries by Varuzhan Akobian, thanks to the Saint Louis Chess Club.

					1		2		3		4		5		6			Perf
1.	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2801	*	*	1	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	1	.	3
2.	Vachier-Lagrave, M.	g	FRA	2768	0	.	*	*	1	.	.	.	½	.	.	.	1½	2827
3.	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2805	.	.	0	.	*	*	½	.	.	.	1	.	1½	2775
4.	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2787	.	.	.	.	½	.	*	*	½	.	0	.	1	2693
5.	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2877	0	.	½	.	.	.	½	.	*	*	.	.	1	2660
6.	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2772	0	.	.	.	0	.	1	.	.	.	*	*	1	2672

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