Six draws, five finished in less than two and a half hours. Only Fabiano Caruana and Shakhriyar Mamedaryov proved recalcitrant, but inevitably they too caught the zeitgeist and landed safely. What could have been a major game between Wesley So and Magnus Carlsen was a damp squib...
After three rounds in Danzhou, the Chinese troika (to offer a sort of mixed national metaphor) of Wei Yi, Yu Yangyi, and Wang Hao shared the lead at +1. They all drew their next two games, and are now tied for 2nd-4th, having been leapfrogged by Hungarian GM Richard Rapport.
Despite a fairly high drawing percentage, the Grand Chess Tour event in Zagreb has been exciting. The rise and fall of Ian Nepomniachtchi, the continued march of Magnus Carlsen into the stratosphere...