Wijk Aan Zee Round 3 Games

The third round of the Corus Wijk Aan Zee tournament produced two significant results. The game between Radjabov and Ivanchuk was an error-filled one. Ivanchuk enjoyed the advantage almost throughout the game and pushed Radjabov to the wall with extreme pawn pushes and had most of Radjabov's pieces too in corners. In the end, Ivanchuk blundered away his Queen (which should anyway have been only a bishop). A miserable game for Ivanchuk and not a pretty sight at this level.


The other decisive game was played between the solid Kamsky and the shaky (so far) top seed of this tournament, Morozevich. Kamsky squeezed the juice out of a normal middle game to beat Moro in just 34 moves.