Many of the tiebreak games show why it is difficult to take this sort of knockout seriously. Maybe Caruana vs Malakhov and Andreikin vs Dreev were worst, with dozens of blunders in the blitz finishes that decide these "matches".
Genius Yi Wei reveals himself to the world
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fabelhaft wrote:
Many of the tiebreak games show why it is difficult to take this sort of knockout seriously. Maybe Caruana vs Malakhov and Andreikin vs Dreev were worst, with dozens of blunders in the blitz finishes that decide these "matches".
Yes, it's practically a lottery!
Wei Yi played the Evans! But was declined. Don't see why, black can give back the pawn and play fairly low risk positions, and Mamadyarov only needs a draw.
Give the Shark a whooping, Wei!
The bell tolls for Grischuk.
Shak took out the youth.
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The400blows please shut up...you lose versus easy-computer
Shut up and make me some Spaghetti.
Where's the link to the interview?
Let us see how far he will go... already Wei has made history the youngest to reach this far in the World Cup...
Wei was eliminated already, earlier today.
Ponomariov remains the youngest to win the Fide World Cup.
WalangAlam wrote:
Ponomariov remains the youngest to win the Fide World Cup.
When Pono won, it was called the World Championship.
Thanks for the correction Ziryab!
Firestopr wrote:
this kid is a genius! plus, he's Chinese, obviously he will have trouble speaking in English!
Alan, we're chinese and we speak english well enough. Genius like the rest of us. He's just better at chess.
Vo1d3mort wrote:
sisu wrote
It was on facebook, and not going to say who it was. But they said:
"I compared today the game of surprise win of Chinese kid ( 14 years old ) against Alexei Shirov, from some moves upwards the kid played all the first line houddini ( 10 moves in a row ). Very suspect, from opening it was nothing special three pawns for a piece but then some subtle moves like Kb1 in order to give a check with the bishop on c1, I mean this just reminded me on Coris play against me in Benasque during the final stage of the game ( endgame ). Very suspicious indeed."
The real analysis is that kids prepare with Houdini, and the kid got in a good preparation. Plus older GMs have to accept the change in style of modern players, rather than be bitter about it. I would advise the next opponent to change his openings though
Hell yeah, he has a transparent lens in his eye and an implanted microspeaker in his auditory canal. A seperate satellite is assigned for the transmision of houdini moves, to ensure his dominance in the tournament and later his vicotry over the world champion! Then those capitalistic westerners have to accept the mental superiority of the citizens of the People's Republic of China !!
Mentally yes, the Chinese are superior. Hey, we don't need any satellites! I'm Chinese and I know, we'll just hack the USA's. The US does have a lot to spare. Now physically, we'll crush you like cockroaches in badminton and ping-pong, but others...And hey, those transparent lens? I have so that I can hypnotize my opponent in blitz and mind control so that I can make them blunder!
Really? 4 pawns for the bishop, I don't see how black has hopes of winning.
EDIT: Mamadyarov wins a few moves later.
Black was clearly better before he gave up the e pawn with 28...c6? The light square blockade was so strong that white did not have enough for the piece. Even then he should be able to hold equality with some clever tactics (among other things, after 29. Rxe4 Nxe4 Rxd8 Nxf2 winning back the pawn but losing much of the blockade and the advantage), but under time pressure his position slowly became worse and worse.