After three rounds of the 4-day schedule there are three GMs tied at the top with perfect scores. Slavko Cicak, Giorgi Kacheishvili and Melikset Khachiyan all won against their lower rated opponents and in quick fashion.
On board 1, Cicak was playing against GM Dashzeveg Sharavdorj. What started out as a French Defense turned into something unusual after just a few moves, allowing both GMs to play on their own.
On board 2, Kacheishvili worked his way through some complications better than his opponent, IM Michael Mulyar, as the time control approached.
Khachiyan won on board 3 when FM David Lucky threw a pawn at him, probably uneccesarily, and he managed to convert it into a win, something those GMs have a nasty habit of doing!
Here are the games for you to play through.
The leading group are just half-point ahead of 5 players headed by GM Yury Shulman who beat FM Robby Adamson to end his perfect start from the first two rounds.
In the 3-day schedule, GMs Zviad Izoria and Alex Shabalov were the only two players to come through the first two rounds with a perfect score and they will no doubt meet in round 3. The 3-day schedule is quite top heavy and so those players will be beating each other up in an attempt to reach the round 5 merge with as many points as possible.