After the third round four players have taken the lead in the A-group:youngster Jorden van Foreest the a bit older Jan Werle, the army service chess player Avital Burochovsky and the Indian Gundar Shyam.

Jan Werle and Jorden van Foreest boekten scored fine tactivcal victories, Avital Burochovsky finally torpedoed his opponent mortally in the endgame and Shyam showed grandmasterly play.  GM Roeland Pruijssers is catching up slowly with 2 points.

Jan Werle battled against Saveliy Golubov a Blumenfeld Gambit. Black's small pawn centre was attacked from all sides. A Russian mishap cost Golubov a pawn. Werle continued with throwing a sham sacrifice at his opponent. 

After 17...ef4x 18.e5 Saveliy showed bad shape by playing 18...Ne5x, where 0-0 would have kept him in the game. Jan flinged 19.Rb7x at him and after 17...Qb7x 20.Ne5 Qc7 21.Nc6 black lost the exchange and eventually the game.

Jorden showed tactical skills against Nikita Petrov, who garbled a poisoned pawn in a Reti setup. We enter the game on the 14th move.

Petrov played 15.hg3x to start thinking after 15...Qa5 ; he is lost. Jorden finished the job with the silent 24...Be7.

White can sacrifice all his pieces, but mate is inevitable.

The black setup has been played before; form some more tactical trickery

De Jager - Pijpers, Haarlem, 2013

1. Pf3 d5 2. c4 c6 3. g3 Pf6 4. Lg2 Lf5 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. Db3 Pc6 7. Dxb7 Ld7 8. Db3 e5 9. O-O Tb8 10. Dd1 e4 11. Pe1 h5 12. d3 h4 13. dxe4 dxe4 14. Pc3 hxg3 15. hxg3 Da5 16. f3 Dh5 17. Kf2 exf3 18. Pxf3 Lc5+ 19. e3 O-O 20. Th1 Dg6 21. Ph4 Pg4+ 22. Ke2 Df6 23. Pe4 De7 24. Pxc5 Txb2+ 25. Kf1 Dxc5 26. Dxd7 Td8 27. Dxg4 Dc4+ 28. Dxc4 Td1#