Vassily Ivanchuk won his third game in MTel Masters 2008. Ukrainian defeated Bu Xiandzhi with white in Reti Opening and had 100% success. Bu is at the other side - we can define his game today as "Total opening disaster".
In "Bulgarian game" Veselin Topalov (black) won against his WCC Second Ivan Cheparinov.
In Anti-Meran Gambit Teimur Radjabov and Levon Aronian had finished their game on a draw.

Round 3 Standings:

Rank	Name	IRtg	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	Pts	vict	Res.	SB.
1	Ivanchuk Vassily	2740	UKR	* *	1			1	1	3,0	3	0,0	3,50
2	Topalov Veselin	2767	BUL	0	* *	1	1			2,0	2	0,0	2,50
3	Cheparinov Ivan	2695	BUL		0	* *	Ѕ		1	1,5	1	0,0	1,00
4	Aronian Levon	2763	ARM		0	Ѕ	* *	Ѕ		1,0	0	0,5	1,25
5	Radjabov Teimour	2751	AZE	0			Ѕ	* *	Ѕ	1,0	0	0,5	0,75
6	Bu Xiangzhi	2708	CHN	0		0		Ѕ	* *	0,5	0	0,0	0,50