Chess Shenzhen Luohu Peak Sesvedler won the championship

Xinhua News Agency, Shenzhen, June 14 , 2018 Shenzhen Luohu Chess Grandmaster Summit Tournament ended all matches in Shenzhen on the 14th. Although Chinese player Yu Yangyi won the super fast chess match on the same day, the previous fast chess game fell behind by a large score, with a total score of 10.5:15.5 against the Russian chess player Sveidler, who won the championship.

In the summit match that began on the 12th, Yu Yangyi, the champion of the National SuperFast Chess Tournament, and the Russian veteran Sveidler played an 8-round fast chess and 10-round super-fast chess match. Among them, the fast chess game wins a game and scores 2 points, and the sum scores 1 point, and the loss scores 0 points. Superfast chess game wins with 1 point, draws 0.5 points, and loses with 0 points.

On the 12th and 13th, the two sides played eight rounds of fast chess matches, and the first four rounds of Yu Yangyi won 1 win and 2 losses 3:5 temporarily behind. In the fourth round of the next day's game, he was not in a good state, and in the fifth round, Wang Bing started the situation for a while, but his desire to win was overturned by the other side. Perhaps affected by the mentality, Yu Yangyi lost two more sets, and the last round of the battle was drawn, and the fast chess game was 4:12 behind.

In the super fast chess match played at 14:00 on the afternoon of the 14th, Yu Yangyi played the first set first, and Sweedler then equalized and fought with Yu Yangyi in the third set. At this point, he led by 13.5:5.5 on aggregate, but the game needed to be full according to the regulations. Yu Yangyi recovered in the back course, winning the super fast chess match with an aggregate score of 6.5:3.5, but the total score was 10.5:15.5 against the opponent. Sweedler received $20,000 in prize money for the competition, and Yu Yangyi received $10,000.

The competition is sponsored by the Chess and Card Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sport of the People's Republic of China (China Chess Academy), the China Chess Association, and the Shenzhen Luohu District Chess Association and the Shenzhen Pengcheng Chess Club Co., Ltd. (End)