Nanjing, August 3 (Xinhua) -- The Chess Legends Star Tournament ended its semi-finals on the 3rd Beijing time, and Russian chess player Nepomnyyach defeated Dutch chess player Giri and will face the world's number one Norwegian world champion Carlson in the final.
The Chess Legends Star Tournament is the fourth leg of the Carlson Chess Network Tour, with players including the third round-four – Carlson, Giri, Chinese players Ding Li and Nepomniacki , as well as six legendary chess masters. The tournament is divided into two stages: the preliminary round and the knockout round, the top four in the preliminary round enter the three two-win knockout rounds, at this stage, if the four quick games are combined, the two super fast chess games will be added, and if the autumn color is still equally divided, the sudden death fast chess plus will be carried out.
After nine rounds of single-round robin preliminaries, the sluggish Ding Liren became the only player to be eliminated in the third round of four, and Russian veteran Sveidler reached the final four. However, Svedler's semi-finals were difficult to beat carlson, who made two consecutive cities and advanced to the final early. Nepomniacki and Giri won one each of their first two matches to advance to the tiebreaker. The two played all four quick games, and the first game of super fast chess was again combined. In the second set, Nepomniacki finally seized the opportunity to turn the advantage into a win, playing until 45 rounds to win the game, thus advancing to the final with a 2:1 score. (End)
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