Daily Update: Wang Hao Leading Chinese Championship; Ivanchuk Continues to Lead his Match
After five rounds of the Chinese Championship, Wang Hao leads with a very impressive 4½ points and a 2997 TPR. All but two players are GMs, but it surprised me that in such a strong chess country there would be any non-GMs participating. The joke is on me and those like me, apparently, because one of the non-GMs, Ding Liren, is currently in clear second with 3½ points and the other, Ji Dan, is tied for third with 3. (More info here and here.)
In the Ivanchuk-Navara match, the Ukranian continues to lead on the strength of his results with the white pieces. Navara got his first win in game 5, in a nice technical performance, but Ivanchuk won his third straight game with White in round 6, and leads 4-2. The eight-game match finishes tomorrow.
In the Ivanchuk-Navara match, the Ukranian continues to lead on the strength of his results with the white pieces. Navara got his first win in game 5, in a nice technical performance, but Ivanchuk won his third straight game with White in round 6, and leads 4-2. The eight-game match finishes tomorrow.
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Saturday May 30, 2009 at 2:48pm
Ding Liren has already got a GM norm by his good performance in the 2009 Asian individual championship.
By the way,A lot of Chinese juniors(under 2500) and girls(under 2350)players are most underrated in the world,because they are lack of opportunites to participate the opens or tournaments like Russian and European players.
In China,chess is not popular in all,the reason is that people usually play Chinese chess(XiangQi）and Go.Believe it or not, almost every little boy can play Chinese chess but not chess.