RAJABOV DRAWS WITH MOROZEVICH IN AMBER TOURNAMENT
Nice, March 18 (AZERTAC). Azerbaijani grandmaster Teymur Rajabov drew with Russian Alexander Morozevich in the 3rd round of the 18th Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament in Nice, France.
The day`s other results are as follows:
Blindfold; Viswanathan Anand (India) 0-1Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Wang Yue (Chine) 0-1Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Levon Aronian (Armenia) 1-0 Gata Kamsky (US), Peter Leko (Hungary) 1-0 Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Sergey Kariakin (Ukraine) 0.5-0.5 Vladimir Kramnik (Russia).
Rapid; Kamsky 1-0 Aronian, Ivanchuk 1-0 Leko, Carlsen 0.5-0.5 Anand, Topalov 0.5-0.5 Yue, Kramnik 0.5-0.5 Kariakin.
After three rounds Aronian leads the table with 4 points. Kramnik, Carlsen and Topalov have 3.5 points, Kamsky and Rajabov 2.5 points each.
The 4th round will see Rajabov face Kariakin, Aronian play Anand, Ivanchuk take on Kamsky, Yue eoncounter Kramnik, Leko play Carlsen and Morozevich clash with Topalov.
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