After Ding Liren won the championship in Group A the day before, Wei Yi played well in Group B and won the championship with 4.5 points.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 23 (reporter Zheng Zhi) preparation for the online warm-up match for the World Chess Championship Candidates in 202020after finishing the match on the zhisai.com platform on the 23rd. After Ding Liren won the championship in Group A the day before, wei Yi played well in Group B and won the championship with 4.5 points.
This online warm-up match aims to help Ding Liren and Wang Hao prepare for the 2020 World Champion candidate competition held in Yekaterinburg, Russia in mid-March. For the first time, two Chinese players participated in this competition, the two will compete with six other players to challenge Carlson, the current world chess king.
This warm-up match is a double-cycle super-fast chess game. Ding Liren, Xiong Yitao, Lu Shanglei and Zhang Pengxiang participated in the group A competition which ended on the 22nd. Ding Liren won the championship by relying on the direct Victory relationship under the same points.
The Group B competition on the 23rd was played by Wang Hao, Wei Yi, Xu Xiangyu and Lei Ting. In the competition, Wei Yi won the championship with an unbeaten record of 3 wins and 3 wins. Xu Xiangyu ranked second in the second place by one point.
Wang Hao, who participated in this competition in Japan, was at a disadvantage in time due to network reasons, and finally won the third place in this group. He said after the game that this warm-up match was a good opportunity for training soldiers. Unfortunately, the network was not smooth, but he still got the exercise of fighting in adversity.
The only female player in this competition, Lei Tingyi, won the fourth place in this group. She wished Ding Li and Wang Hao good results in Yekaterinburg.
This event is hosted by the chess and card Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sports, China Chess Association, Shenzhen Nanshan district culture, radio, television, tourism and sports bureau, Shenzhen Nanshan District Chess Association, shenzhen Pengcheng chess club co-organized and supported by Shenzhen Chess Institute.