Nanjing, July 29 (Xinhua) -- The chess legend star game ended its eighth round of competition on 29 July, Beijing time, and The Chinese chess player Ding Liren, who had no chance of the knockout match, defeated India's old chess king Anand to win the second victory of this tournament. In the first-place battle, Norwegian world champion Carlson plus narrowly defeated Russian chess player Nepomniacki to continue to sit at the top of the table.
The Legendary Chess Stars tournament is the fourth leg of the Carlson Chess Network Tour, with players including the third round-four – Carlson, Dutch top players Giri, 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 first seven rounds of the battle may be related to the continuous staying up late to deal with the problem of jet lag, the world's third-ranked Ding Liren is extremely depressed, the first seven rounds only won one victory, early missed the knockout round. In this round, Ding Liren faced Anand, also from Asia, and the two won only one in the first seven rounds, resulting in Ding Liren winning the first and third sets and playing with his opponents in the second set, thus winning the game with only three sets.
In other matches in this round, Carlson and Nepomniacki's top brawled until sudden death, the white Nepomniac was powerless to win, according to the rules, Carlson narrowly won 2 points to continue to lead, and the Russian who scored 1 point also locked the top two positions. Kiri and Ukrainian veteran Ivan Chuck also fought to the overtime, and in the end Ivan Chuk laughed and scored 2 points, and Giri still ranked third. Russia's veteran Sveidler rose to fourth after defeating compatriot Kramnik, who retreated to fifth but still has the potential to qualify. Israeli veteran Gelfand defeats Hungarian veteran Reko.
The tournament will end on August 5, after Carlson won twice in the previous three races and Russian chess player Dubov won the second. (End)
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