Today's round was a little calmer than its predecessors, but there were still two decisive games in round 3 of the 2015 Sinquefield Cup. Magnus Carlsen won in convincing fashion against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, while Wesley So defeated Alexander Grischuk after the latter's errors in time pressure.
The other games were drawn after varying degrees of eventfulness. Viswanathan Anand had White against Veselin Topalov, but after an 0-2 start he seemed satisfied with a draw early on, choosing a rather quiet line. Topalov was the one who pressed a little, but even he didn't seem as ambitious as he could have been, and settled for an easy draw with Black. His score of 2.5-.5 keeps him in clear first, half a point ahead of Carlsen, Levon Aronian and Anish Giri. The latter two played each other, with Aronian having good chances for a win though never anything concrete. Finally, Fabiano Caruana, like Anand, managed to get a draw after starting with a pair of losses. He had Black against Hikaru Nakamura and held the advantage after a very nice opening with the black pieces. Near the end of the first time control that turned around a bit, but Caruana held the draw without much danger in the second time control.
There are more details to be found in my notes to the games. As for tomorrow's pairings, they are as follows: