Chinanews.com, August 28th. On the 27th, Beijing time, the 2020 FIDE Network Chess Olympiad began the finals. In the "12 to 8" game that ended that night, the Chinese team lost to the Ukrainian team in the Sudden Death Quick Chess game and failed to qualify for the quarterfinals.
According to the rules of the game, in the final stage, both sides must play two games. If a tie is reached, the game will suddenly die.
In the first two rounds of competition, China and Ukraine competed fiercely, evenly matched, and both missed chances to win, and they were tied 3 to 3 twice.
In the first round, Ding Liren and Hou Yifan both scored. They defeated veterans Ivanchuk and Gabonenko respectively, and scored two points for China. Wei Yi and Ju Wenjun drew with Klopov and Zhukova respectively. The two young chess players Liu Yan and Ning Kaiyu lost both, losing to Shevchenko and Bairdnik.
What's interesting is that in the match between Zhukova and Ju Wenjun, Zhukova did not see the means to win the game under the winning situation, and chose to repeat the situation. After the chess, Ju Wenjun escaped and made Ukraine miss. victory.
In the second round, the women's youth stage Zhu Jiner showed off and took down Bairdnick. But after the chess, Tan Zhongyi had problems in the game. After missing the chance to win the chess in the first half of the game, he fell into a passive position and lost to rookie Osmark. The other four games are tied.
Among them, the men’s youth stage was extremely fierce. Shevchenko, who had won seven consecutive victories in front of him, fought against Liu Yan in 126 rounds. He missed the opportunity in the winning endgame and was tied by Liu Yan and dragged the game into the game. Sudden death fast chess game.
Suddenly died a playoff, and the system won the men's youth sets. Liu Yan and Shevchenko fought for the third time. Shevchenko chose white and Liu Yan played black. This means that Liu Yan only needs to draw to complete the task.
Unfortunately, after 87 rounds, Liu Yan overtime in the endgame and lost to his opponent. In this way, the Chinese team lost to the Ukrainian team and failed to advance to the quarterfinals.
A game that ended earlier also staged a sudden death playoff. The Hungarian team and the German team won one game in each of the two rounds. In the sudden death playoff, the Hungarian team Banus thrilled the German team Wagner and was lucky to advance.
It is worth mentioning that in the sudden death fast chess game, when the German player Wagner overtime, Banus's clock face only had 0.3 seconds left.
In this way, Hungary and Ukraine advance to the quarterfinals, and the two teams will face Russia and the United States respectively in the quarter-finals. (Finish)
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