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We as chess fans are so spoiled (big happy grin). Not only is Biel going on but the Danzhou super tournament just started. So what? Well let me tell you what. What a field! Eight great fighters!
Wei Yi, Vidit, Sam Shankland (yes Sam Shankland!), Le Quang Liem (my old favorite - Mr. Class), Bu, Yu Yangyi, (performing at home no less), Fedoseev, and the young star Duda. In the first round only one win but not from lack of trying. Sam Shankland saved himself with a fortress, and lots of sparring in other games. Duda won with a French and amazing strategy and tactics! A knight sack that would rock you out of your chair (for two connected passed pawns) and then the longest king walk Ive seen in a while, and finally decided with a magnificent pawn race (that had to be calculated accurately)
Rd 3 Blood on the waters. All the games should have been decisive. Lucky save by Fedoseev. Beautiful exploitation of two bishops over two knights in a closed position by Vidit. Wei Yi stumbled.
Follow Chess - Vidit Gujrathi's win over Sam Shankland today was more than just another decisive game - it happened to be Sam Shankland's first loss of 2018
Round 3, July 29
Duda, Jan-Krzysztof -– Fedoseev, Vladimir
D31 QGD, Janowski variation
ChessBase - Two wins and two draws were witnessed in the fourth round of the 9th Hainan Danzhou Super Grandmaster Tournament. Interestingly, the downfall of both losers — Vidit Gujrathi and Jan-Krzysztof Duda — began after they moved their pawn to b5.
Round 4, July 30
Le, Quang Liem -– Fedoseev, Vladimir
C45 Scotch, Potter variation
Yu leads and Bu follows. Bu played a sparkling bishop sacrifice on f6 bt was met by a sharper defence. Zippity Duda is now zipping along (couldnt resist)
Yu Yangyi won in a close competitive field. LeQuang Liem finished second after winning his last two games. The field was almost as close as it gets. The sole winner was +2 and last place -2.
Sam Shankland might not think his tournament was successful with a minus score and losing 5 rating points but he proved that he can swim with the 2750 sharks and he is still above 2720. Keep up the great chess Sam!
Scoring 4½/7, tournament's top seed, GM Yu Yangyi bagged the title prize of the 9th Hainan Danzhou Super Grandmaster tournament. In the final round, the race for the title was between Yu Yangyi and his countryman Bu Xiangzhi. Going for a comfortable draw in the Petroff, Yu put the onus of catching up on his rival who was half-a-point behind. Bu was never really in a position to win his game but Fedoseev, Bu's opponent, surprisingly pulled out a win at the last moment to score his first win of the event. Le Quang Liem and Wei Yi also scored impressive wins in the finale.
In what was a tense and hard-fought Danzhou Super GM Tournament, Chinese grandmaster Yu Yangyi ended up winning the $24,000 first prize. Sam Shankland's undefeated streak came to an end.
Vidit didn't play an important role in this tournament, and in fact finished in last place. However, his only win was against Shankland, so American fans will wonder: Did he really need to do that?
The reason is that, with this game, Shankland's undefeated streak of 62 games came to an end: Biel Master Open 2017 (1), US Masters Championship (9), Sunway Sitges open (9), St Louis Spring tournament (9), U.S. championship (11), Capablanca memorial (10), American continental (11) and Hainan Danzhou Super GM (2).
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