Five way tie in the lead after three rounds of the Tata Steel Masters 2021 - 3

Pentala Harikrishna, Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri, Fabiano Caruana and Nils Grandelius all share the lead on 2/3 in the early stages of the Tata Steel Masters. For a while it looked like Fabiano Caruana would take the sole lead of the tournament but his opponent Jan-Krzysztof Duda put up maximum resistance and eventually escaped with a draw. Alireza Firouzja beat David Anton in the final game of the day to finish, he eventually broke through in a queenless middle game to win in 61 moves. Pentala Harikrishna beat leader Nils Grandelius on the black side of a French where he completely took over the initiative following the error 25.Bc1? The remaining games were drawn Magnus Carlsen was frustrated by a solid opening from Aryan Tari, Alexander Donchenko finally got on the scoreboard with a comfortable draw with black against Giri, Radoslaw Wojtaszek drew a Semi-Tarrasch with Jorden van Foreest and MVL sacrificed his Queen with black against Andrey Esipenko for more than enough compensation but the game too was drawn.

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Round 3 standings: 1st-5th Harikrishna, Carlsen, Giri, Caruana, Grandelius 2pts; 6th-10th Vachier-Lagrave, Van Foreest, Esipenko, Firouzja, Wojtaszek 1.5pts 11th-13th Duda, Anton Guijarro, Tari 1pt 14th Donchenko 0.5pts.

Round 4 pairings 19th Jan 1pm GMT: MVL-Anton, Tari-Firouzja, Van Foreest-Carlsen, Donchenko-Wojtaszek, Duda-Giri, Harikrishna-Caruana, Esipenko-Grandelius.