Ray Robson (2656) beat Naroditsky (2633) with the Black pieces to join Hikaru Nakamura in lead with 5 points at the end of round 7. Robson had beaten Wesley So in the earlier round.
Wesley So (2788) got the better of Onishcuk (2665) and is in second spot with 4.5/7 points, while Kamsky (2683) beat Holt (2530).
In the Women’s section, Katerina Nemcova continued her winning spree and beat Virkud to lead with 6/7 points.
The US Chess Championship will be played over 11 rounds.
Top seed Hikaru Nakamura (2798) drew with the white pieces against Shankland (2661) in round 6 and continues to lead the strong US Chess Championship 2015.
Title-hopeful Wesley So (2788) suffered yet another loss, this time at the hands of Ray Robson (2656).
In the women’s section, Katerina Nemcova continues her dream run with 5/6 points!
The 17th Dubai Open Chess tourney takes place from Apr 6 to 14.
Top seed is English GM David Howell 2687.
Some of the top Indian Chess masters who are participating:
Official website http://dubaichess.ae
Results of round 1 : http://www.chess-results.com/tnr168053.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=1&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984
Games can be followed live in Follow Chess app!
Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine drew the 4th game against Natalia Pogonina of Russia to win the Women’s world chess championship crown!
Mariya won the match 2.5-1.5.
Wesley So suffered a shock defeat at the hands of young Sam Sevian in the 3rd round of the US Chess championship.
After 3 rounds, top seed Nakamura and Ray Robson are in lead with 2.5 out of 3 points.
In the women’schampionship, Goletiani and Nemcova are in lead with 2.5/3 points
Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine beat Pogonina of Russia with White pieces, in their second game match to take lead. 2 more games follow in the 4 game match.
Earlier the first game was drawn.
Muzychuk (2526) of Ukraine held Pogonina (2456) to a draw with the Black pieces in their first game of the 4 game match to decide the Women’s world chess champion.
Three Indian players are competing at the O2C Doeberl Cup Premier, 2015. GMs Surya Shekhar Ganguly, R.B. Ramesh and WGM AarthieRamaswamy had a sedate start to the event by drawing their first round games and winning the second.
The top-seed GM Loek van Wely had a rough first day where he lost to Australian IM Gary Lane (Elo. 2350).
In a notable coincidence, the husband-wife pair of Gm R.B. Ramesh and WGM Aarthie Ramaswamy found themselves facing each other in the very first round. Though the game eventually did end in a draw, it was by no means a pre-arranged result as WGM Ramaswamy went all out with a classical bishop sacrifice.
Pairings for Round 3 (Top 12 boards) :
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Pts. | Name | Rtg |
| 1 | Wallis Christopher | 2359 | 2 | 2 | Zhou Weiqi | 2627 |
| 2 | Lane Gary W. | 2350 | 2 | 2 | Smirnov Anton | 2410 |
| 3 | Johansen Darryl K | 2409 | 2 | 2 | Zelesco Karl | 2252 |
| 4 | Morris James | 2401 | 2 | 2 | Yuan Ye | 2114 |
| 5 | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | 2619 | 1½ | 2 | Litchfield Frederick | 2013 |
| 6 | Heberla Bartlomiej | 2556 | 1½ | 1½ | Puccini Jack | 2265 |
| 7 | Loh Zachary | 2230 | 1½ | 1½ | Ramesh R.B. | 2472 |
| 8 | Izzat Kanan | 2434 | 1½ | 1½ | Atzmon-Simon Barak | 2127 |
| 9 | Bliznyuk Andrey | 2093 | 1½ | 1½ | Tan Justin | 2407 |
| 10 | Stojic Dusan | 2147 | 1½ | 1½ | Bjelobrk Igor | 2366 |
| 11 | Li Zuhao Luke | 2323 | 1½ | 1½ | Press Harry | 1828 |
| 12 | Ramaswamy Aarthie | 2042 | 1½ | 1½ | Dale Ari | 2321 |
Indian GM Krishnan Sasikiran lost to co-leader Russian GM Daniil Dubov to lose the lead at the Aeroflot Open, 2015. Playing the black side of a Ruy Lopez, Sasikiran was holding tight in a rook endgame until an unfortunate slip cost him the game.
Reaching the time-control, white had just played 40.Ra3 with the point that 40…Rxc2? 41.Rc3 Rxg2 42.Rg3+ and the b pawn queens. Hence, black should have played something like 40…Kf6! where he holds. Instead, Sasi went captured on c2 and ended up losing after 40…Rxc2 41.Rc3 Rd2 when the b-pawn is simply too fast.
Dubov shares lead with Nepomniachtchi
Sasi’s slip proved costly for him, enabling GM Dubov to share the lead with GM Nepomniachtchi who won his game.
Meanwhile, GM Adhiban registered a very important victory with the black pieces agains GM Korobov of Ukraine where he nursed his advantage to a winning rook endgame. This win took his tally to a commendable 4.5/6 in the super-strong field.
The other Indians in the fray had a bad day with GM Sethuraman, GM Vishnu Prasanna and IM Swayams Mishra drawing their games. GM Ankit Rajpara had to face defeat despite playing the white pieces while GM Gujrathi lost defending with black pieces. GM Sandipan Chanda too slipped to suffer another loss.
Results of Indian players in Group A
| Name | Rtg | Result | Name | Rtg |
| Dubov Daniil | 2627 | 1 – 0 | Sasikiran Krishnan | 2682 |
| Korobov Anton | 2694 | 0 – 1 | Adhiban B. | 2646 |
| Jumabayev Rinat | 2572 | 1 – 0 | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | 2625 |
| Mozharov Mikhail | 2555 | ½ – ½ | Sethuraman S.P. | 2623 |
| Swayams Mishra | 2440 | ½ – ½ | Goganov Aleksey | 2598 |
| Kotronias Vasilios | 2565 | ½ – ½ | Vishnu Prasanna. V | 2477 |
| Ankit R. Rajpara | 2477 | 0 – 1 | Yilmaz Mustafa | 2570 |
| Sandipan Chanda | 2569 | 0 – 1 | Asgarizadeh Ahmad | 2412 |
(winners are in bold)
Grzegorz Gajewski won the LOTTO Polish Chess Championship with 6.5/9 points on account of his superior Tie break. Gajewski was the Second of India’s Viswanathan Anand in the 2014 World Championship match against Magnus Carlsen.
Gajewski wins, Klekowski draws
Entering into the final round, Untitled Maciej Klekowski (2434) was in sole lead with 6/9 points. Gajewski managed to defeat Michal Olszewski (2567) when the latter blundered in a good position. Meanwhile Klekowski could only salvage a draw against GM Duda 2597.
Top 5 Standings
| Rank | Seed No. | Name | Rating | Points | Median Buchholz |
| 1 | 1 | Gajewski Grzegorz | 2648 | 6.5 | 37.5 |
| 2 | 17 | Klekowski Maciej | 2434 | 6.5 | 36.5 |
| 3 | 9 | Tomczak Jacek | 2554 | 6 | 39 |
| 4 | 10 | Piorun Kacper | 2528 | 6 | 36.5 |
| 5 | 5 | Duda Jan-Krzysztof | 2597 | 5.5 | 36.5 |
All standings: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr166956.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&wi=821
Official website: http://imp2015.pl/tournaments/2/results