Meng Chen is proud of all the heroes and Tang Sinan is superior in skills – Sports – China Engineering Network

original title:Meng Chen is proud of the heroes and Tang Sinan is superior to others with his skills (quote)

The 18th World Chess Championship ends (theme)

China Sports News reporter Ge Huizhong

The 18th World Chess Championship and the 4th World Youth Chess Championship ended on November 26th, Beijing time, in Houston, USA. The Chinese team achieved excellent results of 6 golds, 3 silvers and 1 bronze. Among them, Meng Chen dominated the men’s individual competition, and Tang Sinan Then won the women’s individual competition.

The Chinese team at the World Championships was affected by visa issues. In the end, only Meng Chen was able to compete in the men’s individual competition. He was the runner-up in this year’s National Individual Championship. Brother Lai Li, another favorite to win the championship, is the Vietnamese foreign aid of the Hangzhou team in the Elephant League. He is very familiar with Chinese chess players. This is an unusually severe test for Meng Chen. Since he is fighting alone in this group, he cannot be impatient or too conservative in his strategic choices. He must first ensure that he can be among the top two after the first 8 rounds of points competition. Reach the finals. In the third round, Meng Chen encountered Brother Lai Li. Since his opponent had the first move advantage, the game ended in a draw. After fierce competition in the first 8 rounds of points competition, Meng Chen and Brother Lai Li both had 5 wins and 3 points and accumulated 13 points, gaining the opportunity to advance to the finals.

In the final, Brother Lai Li got the first move in the slow chess stage through drawing lots, and once established a very obvious advantage. However, under heavy pressure, Meng Chen showed great resilience and successfully withstood the pressure, introducing the chess game into a A draw situation in which a high pawn and a low pawn are against a knight. Afterwards, the two sides exchanged moves to play fast chess. Meng Chen played red proactively, abandoning his troops soon after the start and riding his horse to launch an offensive. Brother Lai Li failed to find his strongest move in the tense situation. Meng Chen took the opportunity to expand his advantage and constantly put pressure on his opponent. In the end, Brother Lai Li lost due to timeout. So far, Meng Chen has won the men’s individual championship in this world championship, and brother Lai Li has won the runner-up. Wu Zonghan of Singapore team won the third place.

It is worth mentioning that since only Meng Chen from the Chinese team participated in the men’s individual competition, he was unable to participate in the men’s team competition. In this case, the Vietnamese team composed of two famous players, Lai Li and Nguyen Ming Riguang, did not win the men’s team championship without hesitation. The Singaporean team won the World Championship men’s team championship with Wu Zonghan’s third place and Liu Yihao’s eighth place. , the Vietnamese team and the Malaysian team won the runner-up and third place respectively in the men’s team.

In the women’s individual competition, the Chinese team Tang Sinan and Liu Huan won the championship and runner-up respectively. At the same time, they also won the World Championships women’s team championship for the Chinese team. In addition, Chinese teenagers Liu Baihong, Zhou Yufei and Yuan Weihao also won gold medals in the U16 men’s group, U16 women’s group and U12 men’s group respectively in the World Junior Championships. Wang Sikai won the silver medal in the U12 men’s group. Jiang Yiqing and Wang Zixuan won the silver and bronze medals in the U12 women’s group respectively.

After the World Championships and World Junior Championships, 70 chess players from all over the world continued to participate in the second World Chess Rapid Open in Houston. This is also an important part of this World Championships series of events. . After 9 rounds of fierce competition, Brother Lai Li won the championship with 15 points. Chinese teenagers Yuan Weihao and Liu Baihong performed well and shared 14 points with the Malaysian team Li Dezhi and the Vietnamese team Nguyen Minh Sun Quang. However, because their opponents scored slightly lower, the two Chinese teenagers ended up ranking fourth and fifth.

At the closing ceremony, the young chess players happily signed autographs for each other and looked forward to the next chess appointment.