After 3 rounds, the World Chess Championship is led jointly by Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand, who played a tense game against each other in the third round.
Kramnik seems to be the in form player, playing a speculative knight sacrifice to create complications and beat Alexander Morozevich in round 2. Kramnik then seemed to have a slim chance of beating Anand with the black pieces after going a pawn up. However, Anand defended extremely well and managed to hold the draw.
Kramnik - Morozevich from round 2 is given below. White's 8th move is a novelty, but it's his 13th move, exd5!!, that simply allows his knight to be taken and steers the game into very complicated and unbalanced lines. Although Morozevich could possibly have saved a draw with 21...Qd5, it was nevertheless an impressive win from Kramnik.
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