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Check out today's game Wei Yi vs Bruzon at the 6th Hainan Danzhou tournament. Tal-like. 2700chess.com has the game.
Wow! Impressive game.
And I give it bonus points for making stockfish look like a fool on chessbomb.com. Look at the automated analysis. There's a bunch of red moves that have actually no business there.
Chessgames.com has made the Wei Yi - Lazaro Bruzon game their game of the day today (rather fittingly on Adolf Anderssen's 197th birthday, who famously quipped, "Attack! Always attack!") and entitled it "A Long Wei From Home" (:
Wei Yi is certainly epitomizing the spirit of fighting chess in the China vs Russia match. Through 4 rounds he has yet to draw a game, winning 3 (2 with Black) and losing 1 (with White to Svidler). His 3/4 gives him a new live rating apex of 2731, currently number 25 in the world and within 10 points of Gelfand, who is holding down the 17 spot. Here's his win with White today against Daniil Dubov:
Forget waiting 5 years for 2020. Kevin Spraggett opines that Wei Yi is "a reincarnation of Bobby Fischer" and "is ALREADY the strongest player in the world (!)".
Wei Yi's recent lack of form continues at the Asian Nations Cup 2016 and he has dropped all the way to #50 in the world. Given China currently has 5 players in the top 25, one has to wonder if Wei Yi will even be part of China's 2016 Olympiad team. He was the #5 board on their 2014 gold medal winning team.
This is all part of the evolution of a strong young player. Remember what happened to Richard Rapport? Even Magnus' progress chart was not straight up. We just have to wait for the recovery. (Besides blunder syndrome is part of every chessplayers repertoire!?)
This is all part of the evolution of a strong young player. Remember what happened to Richard Rapport? Even Magnus' progress chart was not straight up. We just have to wait for the recovery. (Besides blunder syndrome is part of every chessplayers repertoire!?)
After an analysis of Wei Yi’s games against Thien Hai and Ding Liren, he concludes:
“Of course, many young players start out playing sharply, but between becoming more mature and the hard knocks of experience suffered at the hands of the world’s elite, the usual arc for those young players is to become more stable. Hopefully Wei will not become so stable that he stops winning games of this sort, but if he does, then there will be even greater reasons to celebrate and remember games like the one against Thien. However Wei evolves as a player, it is likely that he will be producing great games for years and even decades to come.”
After losing to the #2 seed India yesterday 2.5 to 1.5 (Black scoring 3.5/4 !), China replaced Wei Yi with Jianchao Zhou (2612) for their R6 match today.
The Asian Men’s Continental Championship 2016 is being contested from May 25 to June 5 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The top ten players in it, by rating, are: Le Quang Liem, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Wei Yi, Ni Hua, Baskaran Adhiban, Gujrathi Vidit, Shekhar Ganguly, Abhijeet Gupta, SP Sethuraman and Truong Son Nguyen.
Wei Yi turned 17 today (b. June 2, 1999), beat Kasimdzhanov in his game and now shares the lead in the tournament at 5.5 with Le Quang Liem and Baskaran Adhiban and his live rating is 2706.9.
Asian Men’s Continental Championship 2016
Tashkent, Usbekistan
Round 8, June 2, 2016
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam – Wei Yi
C80 Ruy Lopez, Open, Bernstein Variation
What a nice birthday present to oneself! Happy Birthday Wei Yi! Keep the great games coming. However in this tournament the Indians came thru at the end. I was shocked that Le Quang Liem (a hard as nails grinder) got outplayed in a last round dramatic encounter by GM Sethuraman and Wei Yi looked out of sorts and also lost.
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