The first games of the Round 3 of the World Cup were played on Saturday, September 3 in Khanty-Mansiysk. At this stage the strongest players begin to meet each other. All the remaining participants undoubtedly belong to the world chess elite.

The second round of the World Cup brought fewer sensations than the first one — most underdogs already busted and returned home.

Being under steady looks of 13 arbiters the players met at the chess boards once again in order to determine who will stay in Khanty-Mansiysk minimum for about a couple of days and who will buy a return ticket to go home.

The famous Spanish grandmaster managed to come back from the first game loss to Lazaro Bruzon (Cuba), but lost on the tie-break and is leaving the World Cup.

One of the heroes of the 1 round Rueben Felgaer from Argentina came to the press conference to tell us how was the 2nd (unfortunately the last for him) round going for him.

Grandmaster Bu Xiandzhi from China defeated the French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on tie-break and answered the questions at the press-conference after the last game.

French grandmaster Etienne Bacrot told the journalists about his tie-break victory over Anton Filippov from Uzbekistan.