The Chinese women's team won the World Chess Championship with eight consecutive victories to win the championship in advance

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 13 (Reporters Lu Yuchen and Wang Jingyu) reporters learned from the Chinese Chess Association that in the eighth round of the 2019 Chess World Team Championship held in Astana on the 13th local time, the Chinese women's team easily defeated the American women's team to win eight consecutive victories and won the championship in advance.

This is also the fourth time that the Chinese women's team has won the Women's Chess World Team Championship after 2007, 2009 and 2011.

After the first seven rounds of competition, the Chinese women's team led the defending champion Russian women's team by 3 points. The Chinese team is truce in Shenyang this round, consisting of Tan Zhongyi, Huang Qian, Lei Tingjie and Ding Yixin. The Opponents of the Chinese team in this round, the American Women's Team, are younger, led by Abraham Yang Ye Shiwen, Foiso and Wu Ruoxuan, of which the Chinese teenager Wu Ruoxuan has just turned 13 years old.

Tan Zhongyi established his advantage after the opening of the game, and easily defeated Abraham Young in less than 30 rounds. Since then, Huang Qian and Lei Tingjie have found each other's flaws in the fierce fight, won a black and white victory, and declared in advance that the championship belongs to the Chinese women's team! The four Ding Yixin and Wu Ruoxuan then ended up in a chess game in the car soldiers' endgame, and the Chinese women's team easily defeated the American women's team 3:1 to achieve eight consecutive victories.

"It's really a pleasure to win the title again in eight years! Our girls were able to win all eight games this time, played so steadily, and won the championship in the early round, which was really very powerful! Yu Shaoteng, coach of the Chinese women's team, said. He said that before the World League Tournament, the Chinese women's team was not optimistic, but the girls all fought every game of chess with a peaceful mentality, every round and every game was steady and steady, and the key games dared to fight.

Yu Shaoteng also thanked the team members for their full trust in their platoon deployment. According to him, this World Team Championship still follows the strategy of winning the Championship last year, the white chess has Tan Zhongyi and Lei Tingjie two arrow clusters to attack the main attack score, and the black chess has a number of strong backing points such as "Dinghai God Needle" Huang Qian, so as to maximize the advantages of each team member as much as possible.

In the men's competition, the Russian men's team also won the championship early. The defending champion Chinese men's team defeated England 3:1 in this round, Ding Liren and Wei Yizhi won, Yu Yangyi and Bu Xiangzhi played black draw, and the Chinese men's team is currently ranked fourth temporarily. Next, the Chinese men's team will face Kazakhstan in the final round.