After two rapid tiebreak games of round 3, Aronian, Svidler, Bareev and Karjakin are on 1/8 finals. Inarkiev, Rublevsky, Grischuk and Bacrot should go home.

Two more matches was decided in blitz tiebreaks. Krishnan Sasikiran won both blitz games against Bartlomiej Macieja (POL). Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu won against top-rated player in Khanty-Mansiysk, Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk. He is the last 1/8 finalist of the World chess cup 2007.

The pairings for next round soon...