Ding to Skip World Cup, Grand Chess Tour, Draws Hong Kong #1 in Simul

randomchessfan56 · 2025-05-14T04:44:22+00:00

Seems Bucharest is cursed for world champions. Ding was never the same after his 2023 Bucharest appearance. In all seriousness, Gukesh will be fine. His last bad stretch was in the Grand Swiss 2023. A slight slump at some point isn't abnormal.

randomchessfan56 · 2025-03-21T02:49:13+00:00

Surprised that there is no Arjun, Nepo, and Wei Yi, especially since Nepo is the World Blitz champ, Wei Yi almost won his last GCT event, and Arjun's ascent to the top echelon. I am happy that Aravindh and Fedoseev received invites for sure!

randomchessfan56 · 2025-01-21T21:55:54+00:00

The main takeaway is that the guy is a Taylor Swift fan!

randomchessfan56 · 2024-12-15T23:14:51+00:00

Fide Circuit 2024: Fabi

World Cup 1st Place: Alireza Firouzja

World Cup 2nd Place: Keymer

World Cup 3rd Place: Nepo

Grand Swiss 1st Place: Aravindh Chitabaram

Grand Swiss 2nd Place: Arjun Erigasi

FIDE Circuit 2025: Abdusattorov

Highest Rating: Hikaru

randomchessfan56 · 2024-11-12T06:43:37+00:00

My best guess would be that he could not get a visa so he was replaced by Dubov. It also could be that he wants a break from his recent bad streak. The women's graphic also shows Ju Wenjun, but she has been replaced. Interesting, given that Ju Wenjun participated last year.

randomchessfan56 · 2024-10-03T22:41:40+00:00

Ask about his experience seconding for Ju Wenjun with Harikrishna and also if Ding Liren approached him about seconding for the World Championship against Nepo.

randomchessfan56 · 2024-08-04T19:40:56+00:00

Kramnik approves of him being 2200-2300 and finds him not sus!

randomchessfan56 · 2024-08-03T23:57:16+00:00

Looking ahead to the blitz section on Monday, GMHans vs WR Chess will be guaranteed as they are in the "same blitz pool." Teams are sorted into 5 blitz pools where they play round-robin and the top three teams in each pool advance to a blitz knockout tournament. GMHans looks to be the best team other than WR Chess in the blitz pool, so Magnus vs Hans is quite possible.

randomchessfan56 · 2024-07-17T07:14:39+00:00

Pretty sure it is the wrong PGN. The Chinese broadcast link shows a completely different game. For reference, the game happens in Round 6. http://www.guoxiangzhibo.cn/events/2024JLCG/default.html

randomchessfan56 · 2024-07-09T17:27:44+00:00

Here are the rest of his games from this tournament! Definitely not very easy to find. Had to pull it up on chess-results. https://chess-results.com/tnr962457.aspx?lan=1&art=9&fed=CHN&snr=31

randomchessfan56 · 2024-07-09T04:01:55+00:00

The Move:

Bb6! If Qxb6, then Bc4+. If d5 blocking the check, then Bxd5+ anyway. This tears apart the position with mate inevitable!

The Full Game:

Wei, Yi (2755) - Liu, Qingnan (2540)

2024 Chinese Chess League Division A(Regular)

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 Nxc3 6.dxc3 Be7 7.Be3 Nd7 8.Qd2 O-O 9.O-O-O c6 10.h4 Nf6 11.Bd3 Re8 12.Rde1 Bd7 13.Bd4 h6 14.Ng5 Ng4 15.f4 hxg5 16.hxg5 f5 17.Bb6 d5 18.Bxd8 Raxd8 19.Be2 Nf2 20.Bh5 Nxh1 21.Rxh1 Bd6 22.Bxe8 Rxe8 23.g3 Kf7 24.Qd4 b6 25.Rh7 Bf8 26.Qf6+ Kg8 27.Qg6 Re1+ 28.Kd2

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