WCC Mexico 2007 - Round 3 - A comeback by Morozevich, Anand sweats against Kramnik

In the most expected game, Anand and Kramnik played Petroff's Defence. Position was equal but Anand tried to sharpen the game. This gave a better position for Kramnik, but in fact the position was draw all the time. They have 2 points each.
Alexander Grischuk played very aggressive against Aronian. Grischuk had not enough time (less than 4 minutes remaining for 10 moves) to calculate variants and a draw was agreed by three-fold repetition! He had a winning position - the winning move was 28...Qh6! Aronian disappoints so far. Many were expecting that he would be the most aggressive player in Mexico... He is last with only 1 point.
Gelfand played for a win against Leko. This was the longest game so far in Mexico. A draw was agreed at move 100.
Photos from this round: http://russiachess.org/content/view/1143/38/
Round 3:
Morozevich, Alexander - Svidler, Peter 1-0 Scotch Game
Anand, Viswanathan - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 - 1/2 Petroff's Defence
Grischuk, Alexander - Aronian, Levon 1/2 - 1/2 Ruy Lopez Closed
Leko, Peter - Gelfand, Boris 1/2 - 1/2 Petroff's Defence
Round 4:
Aronian-Leko
Morozevich-Anand
Kramnik-Grischuk
Svidler-Gelfand
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