Vic Anzer Chess Tournament Ding Liren Battle and Cramnik

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 23 (Reporter Wang Jingyu) reporters learned from the China Chess Association that on the evening of the 22nd local time in the Netherlands, in the ninth round of the 2019 Vic Anze Chess Tournament, China's famous Ding Liren and Russia's Kramnik continued to rank second in the standings with a score of 2 wins and 7 and 5.5 points.

Cramnik was born in 1975. In the 1992 National Elephant Olympiad, he made 8 appearances, 7 wins and 1 draw, shocking the world chess world. In 2000's "Battle of the Century", he removed chess giant Kasparov. Before Carlson became the world chess champion, Kramnik was recognized as the strongest player in the world chess world.

The two sides started with a back-up, with Kramnik wearing a white cloth in a Slavic defensive formation. Ding Liren, who insisted on blackness, had an active layout, was anti-customer-oriented, and took the lead in occupying the center.

In the 11th to 13th rounds, Ding Liren adjusted the black chess force structure in time in response to the situation that the white chess piece force was focused on the rear wing, and the 14th-15th rounds were exchanged for the black grid of the white chess piece in the b2 square, so that the white horse of Krannik at the center point of e5 lost the rear fire support. After the exchange, Ding Liren began to implement the strategy of strengthening the defense of bai ge and attacking the white chess c4 and d4 hanging soldiers.

In the 20th-30th round, the game entered the pace of Ding Liren. In the 31st-40th rounds, it felt like Cramnik was powerful and had nowhere to go. After the white chess piece actively broke through the rear wing, Ding Liren further weakened Cramnik's troop type, and in the 35th round, he eliminated the f4 soldiers of the white chess attack auxiliary point, and in the 39th round, he entered the black soldier to h4 to make the white king feel threatened.

After 40 rounds of the game, Cramnik endured the pain of using the elephant to exchange the horse, and then stepped out of the 43, Qb4 defensive counterattack. At this time, the black chess piece had a relatively complex but winning move, but Ding Liren chose a more secure 43,,, Qa6, missing the white chess 44, Ne7 golden cicada shell master, and finally both sides took half a point.

Xu Jun, coach of the Chinese men's chess team, commented that this game of chess was originally a famous game for Ding Liren to control the situation, and it was a little pity in the end. However, the event is very long, I believe that Xiaoding will adjust his mentality and play well in the future.

On the same day, Both Carlson and Anand shook hands with their opponents, while Nepomniacki rose to the first group with his victory over Vidit.

After nine rounds, Nepomniacki, Carlson and Anand scored six points to finish in the first group. Ding Li and Ji Li both accumulated 5.5 points and were in the second group.

A total of 14 players participated in the tournament, which was played in a single round robin format. (End)