Tips for Round 3

This really is turning out to be an exciting tournament with 13 games in the top section ending decisively yesterday . The Aussies, Smerdon and Solomon, held their foreign GM opposition to draws. While New South Wales player, Vladimir Smirnov, disappointed somewhat managing only a draw against less fancied Victorian, Malcolm Pyke.

Here are my tips:

1 IM Lane, Gary (2) .5-.5 GM Rogers, Ian (2)
2 Obst, James (2) 0-1 GM Chandler, Murray (2)
3 GM Ftacnik, Lubomir (1.5) .5-.5 IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan (2)
4 GM Schmaltz, Roland (1.5) .5-.5 IM Smerdon, David (1.5)
5 GM Johansen, Darryl (1.5) .5-.5 IM Solomon, Stephen (1.5)
6 FM Levi, Eddy (1) 0-1 IM Wohl, Alex (1)
7 FM Bjelobrk, Igor (1) 1-0 FM Dougherty, Michael (1)
8 Lakner, Jay (1) 0-1 FM Goldenberg, Igor (1)
9 FM Humphrey, Jonathan (1) 1-0 WIM Moylan, Laura (1)
10 Ly, Moulthun (1) 1-0 FM Guthrie, Aaron (1)
11 FM Xie, George (0.5) 1-0 Smirnov, Vladimir (0.5)
12 Pyke, Malcolm (0.5) 0-1 WIM Caoili, Arianne (0.5)
13 FM Canfell, Greg (0) 1-0 Song, Raymond (0.5)
14 Booth, Stewart (0) 1-0 Wallis, Christopher (0)
15 Bird, Andrew (0) 1-0 Frame, Nigel (0)