The third round finished earlier than the previous days at 20:30 pm. The rating favourites keep winning while Ter Sahkyan Samvel, having his second defeat , has an unexpected performance than usual. GM Yu, GM Salem, IM Duda and GM Ipatov are the ones with full points before the fourth round.

Furthermore, Batuhan Daştan being drawn against Cankut Emiroglu seems to be heading off.

Among the Turkish players, Alexander Ipatov is running his own way and Mustafa Berkay Ozdover against the Iranian player IM Pouya Idani made a draw and had 2,5 points in total.

Cemil Can Ali Marandi comfortably made another draw against the young Grand Master Wei Yi.

Burak Firat and Burak Uysal have two points after the third round.

Melih Yurtseven against the Indian player IM Srinath Narayanan made a draw although he had two pawns of advantage.

Denizcan Temizkan against the Indian player Kulkarni and Hasan Bora Aydin against Milos Pecurica have been able to defeat their opponents among the Turkish players.

In the Girls category, the Russian WGM Goryachkina, the third rating favourite of the tournament, keeps on her way without any loss of game.

Goryachkina, Zhai ve Medina are the leaders right after the third round.

Today, the Italian player Laura Gueci had some health problems during the round and had to leave the game. We wish her to get well soon!!