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According to a press release, there will be a Karpov-Hou Yifan Match on February 4 to 7.
The match will consist of rapid games, a total of six rounds. The time is 15 minutes per side, plus 10 seconds increment. A score of 3.5 will win the match. The total prize money is $ 30,000, the winner will receive $ 20,000, the loser receives $ 10,000.
Eight years ago, the same two players had a match in Sanya, Hainan. The 16-year-old Hou Yifan lost to the 59-year-old Karpov in the first game but after that all the games were drawn.
The event consisted of four classical games (90 minutes for all moves + 30 sec increment) and two rapid games (25 min + 10 sec) - ending, as we said, in a narrow 3.5-2.5 victory for Karpov.
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Wednesday, 7th February, 2018, 04:10 PM.
On Saturday, February 3, Anatoly Karpov was still a guest at the 13th Congress of the Russian Chess Federation. The next day, the 12th World Chess Champion was already in China, specifically in Harbin, located in the north of the country, in the Amur province, where he played a match with Hou Yifan.
After the Russian occupation of Manchuria in 1898, Harbin was one of the stations of the Trans-Siberian Railway: a number of Russian-style buildings still characterize the cityscape. After the Second World War, Harbin remained occupied for some time by Russian troops, before 1946, when Chinese Communists took over the city and used it as a base in the Chinese Civil War.
Karpov and Hou played six rapid games with 15 minutes plus 10 seconds per move for each player. Karpov took an early lead with a finely played positional game and then increased his victory in the second game. Hou won the third game. The fourth game ended in a draw. With a victory in the fifth game, Karpov decided the match with a game to spare. On the white side of a Benoni defense from Hou, Karpov proceeded with careful and prudent play, which eventually resulted in a strong counterattack. The last game was perfunctory, and Karpov lost without much of a fight, resulting in a final match score of 3.5 - 2.5.
Karpov-Hou Yifan Match
15+10
Harbin, China
Game 1, Feb. 5, 2018
Karpov, Anatoly - Hou Yifan
D38 QGD, Ragozin variation
After the Russian occupation of Manchuria in 1898, Harbin was one of the stations of the Trans-Siberian Railway: a number of Russian-style buildings still characterize the cityscape. After the Second World War, Harbin remained occupied for some time by Russian troops, before 1946, when Chinese Communists took over the city and used it as a base in the Chinese Civil War.
Wow. Talk about shockingly misleading. After the Russian Empire - particularly the Russian Navy - got trounced by Japan in 1905, Harbin came under the influence of the colonial powers at the time (and a rising one) in the US, Germany, and France. It was later, with the influence of Russian White Guards who fled Russia after the revolution, when Harbin became the largest Russian emigre outpost outside the RSFSR.
But the really egregious omission is the occupation by Imperial Japan from 1931 to 1945, the establishment of a puppet regime in Manchuria generally, and the horrific experiments on human beings (mostly Chinese and Russia) by the Japanese authorities in the dreaded Unit 731 in Harbin. Unit 731 would have made the Angel of Death, Joseph Megele, blush with shame. In fact, China and Korea established a monument in Harbin in 2014 honouring the Korean nationalist Ahn Jung-geun - who assassinated the Japanese PM in 1909 - and politely thumbed their noses (so far) at the Japanese protests that followed.
Yes, it's true that Harbin has a complicated history... but I'd say that ChessBase is here revealing some stinky political prejudices and some unbelievable historical myopia.
In any case, Harbin is now a great Chinese city. And there's nothing they can do about that.
Last edited by Nigel Hanrahan; Thursday, 8th February, 2018, 02:49 AM.
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