Standings after 3 rounds
| 1. | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2757 | 2½ | |||||||||||||
| 2-4. | Naiditsch, Arkadij | g | GER | 2716 | 1½ | |||||||||||||
| 2-4. | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2780 | 1½ | |||||||||||||
| 2-4. | Fridman, Daniel | g | GER | 2667 | 1½ | |||||||||||||
| 5-6. | Adams, Michael | g | ENG | 2725 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 5-6. | Meier, Georg | g | GER | 2640 | 1 |
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
This time, Caruana won against Naiditsch, in a game which makes a strange impression. It had all the logical consistency one would expect from late-night bullet chess with drinks involved. Why, for instance, Naiditsch refrained from grabbing the g3 cutie at move 32, with a big advantage, simply baffles science.
But at least these two were in there, slugging. The other two games could send rocks to sleep, (as in a famous Monty Python sketch,) but without any hypnosis at all.