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India and China have scheduled an 8 round team match from March 1 - 10, 2015. India will field a team of Krishnan Sasikiran (2682), S.P. Sethuraman (2632), B. Adhiban (2630), and Babu M.R. Lalith (2541) while China will go with Ding Liren (2755), Wei Yi (2706), Zhou Jianchao (2578), and Wang Chen (2500). Each player will play 2 games (1 White, 1 Black) against each of the 4 members of the opposing team.
Wei Yi (2706.0 live) will get to continue his pursuit of Richard Rapport (2714.3 live) for the top Junior on the planet. Richard is not giving up his hold on 1st without a fight, now a perfect 4/4 for the month, after a beautiful crush minutes ago against the Poish GM, Rafal Antoniewski (2543). Wei Yi has gained 11.0 points this month and Richard 11.3. Richard is also the new #1 in Hungary, inching past Peter Leko (2713.0).
Ding Liren had the only win in R1 of the 'India China Summit 2015', thereby passing both Karjakin and Mamedyarov and moving into #12 on the live ratings list. He's certainly one player I'd love to see make the Candidates but the odds are exceedingly slim ):
It was only last November that China overtook Ukraine as the #2 ranked chess country in the world. With Ukraine's average rating remaining static at 2689 and China's seemingly forever ascending, now up to 2704, it wouldn't appear China is about to cede that #2 spot in the foreseeable future. Canada lingers at #42.
ChessBomb is now carrying the games live. Wei Yi got absolutely crushed today and has now lost his 2700 status. Ding Liren also lost and India has now taken a 2-1 lead .
The third round game between Adhiban and Wei Yi. From the times left at the end: Adhiban 1 hr. 4 min and Wei Yi 3m, it would seem that the Indian player knew all the analysis and the Chinese player was flying by the seat of his pants!
India-China Summit 2015
Hyderabad
Round 3, March 4
Adhiban, Baskaran – Wei, Yi
B97 Sicilian, Najdorf (7…Qb6)
Adhiban played a brilliant game today, outwitting world junior champion Wei Yi in just 25 moves. He allowed Wei to capture the poisoned b2 pawn on the eighth move of the Najdorf variation of Sicilian defence. Adhiban sacrificed his knight on 18th move and when he posted the knight on d6 two moves later threatening the king with a check, the verdict became clear. Wei had to lose his bishop to avoid the checkmate or loss of queen. Adhiban unleashed another knight sacrifice, forcing Wei to surrender. At the end of the game, Wei had three minutes left on the clock, whereas Adhiban had more than an hour.
It was a bit of a rout in the end. After taking a 2-1 lead, India never won another match, managing only a draw in R7. Thus the final score was 5.5 to 2.5 in China's favour. There was plenty of good fighting chess and only one player, Wei Yi, drew more than 50% of his games with a plus 2, minus 1, equal 5 score. Ding Liren, as I would have expected, had the fewest draws with a plus 4, minus 2, equal 2 score. The lowest rated player, China's Wang Chen (2500) had a very nice tournament with a plus 3, minus 2, equal 3 score. China's plus scores came mostly at the expense of India's highest rated player, Krishnan Sasikiran (2682), who was the only player not to win a single game, losing 4 (including 2 to Wang Chen) and drawing 4. That score cost Sasikiran 27.7 ELO points and 35 spots in the top 100 ladder ):
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