6th Hainan Danzhou GM 2nd to 11th July 2015

[John McKenna]

Penultimate round prediction - wins for Wei & Ding and draws in the other three games.

Wang, Chen v. Wei, Yi began 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6!? That's a bit Carlsen-like and not a quick way to win.

Ding, Liren v. Lu, Shanglei began 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 dc!? That's a bit of an odd QG and must be a tad risky.

Another fake 'Blumenfeld' -

Wang, Yue v. Yu, Yangyi - 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 (E10 BUT not a real Blumenfeld!) d5 4.g3...

That's classified as E01: Catalan.

Bu, Xiangxi v. Ni, Hua is a NID with 4.Qc2 - hard to see super-solid Bu (all draws so far) losing, even to 2nd placed Ni.

Sasikiran v. Bruzon looks like a Classical KID not usually conducive to a quick draw.

[John McKenna]

Wunderkind Wei, Yi is trying to prove me right and wrong - right that he will win today and wrong about not being able to win quickly with 3... g6 in the Spanish!

Leader old Wang,Yue and young Yu, Yangyi are blitzing to an opposite colour bishops drawn ending.

[Mick Norris]

Round 8 (July 10, 2015)
Wang, Yue - Yu, Yangyi ½-½ 40 E10 Blumenfeld Counter Gambit
Ding, Liren - Lu, Shanglei 1-0 20 D50 Queens Gambit Canal
Bu, Xiangzhi - Ni, Hua ½-½ 26 E35 Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Bruzon Batista, Lazaro - Sasikiran, Krishnan 0-1 38 E97 King's Indian Classical
Wang, Chen - Wei, Yi 0-1 28 B31 Sicilian Rossolimo

[Mick Norris]

Rank after Round 8
Rk. SNo Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 4 GM Wang, Yue CHN 2716 6.5 0.0 2.5 23.25
2 8 GM Ni, Hua CHN 2703 5.5 0.0 1.0 18.75
3 2 GM Ding, Liren CHN 2749 5.0 0.0 0.5 15.75
4 9 GM Wei, Yi CHN 2724 4.5 0.0 1.0 14.75
5 5 GM Yu, Yangyi CHN 2736 4.0 0.5 1.5 16.25
6 1 GM Bu, Xiangzhi CHN 2695 4.0 0.5 1.5 15.75
7 6 GM Sasikiran, Krishnan IND 2640 3.5 0.0 1.0 11.50
8 3 GM Bruzon Batista, Lazaro CUB 2669 2.5 0.0 1.0 10.25
9 7 GM Lu, Shanglei CHN 2595 2.5 0.0 0.5 9.00
10 10 IM Wang, Chen CHN 2521 2.0 0.0 0.0 6.25
Annotation:
Tie Break1: Direct Encounter (The results of the players in the same point group)
Tie Break2: Koya Tie-Break
Tie Break3: Sonneborn-Berger-Tie-Break variable

[Mick Norris]

Round 9 on 2015/07/11 at 2 am UK time I think

Bo. No. Rtg Name Result Name Rtg No.
1 5 2736 GM Yu, Yangyi IM Wang, Chen 2521 10
2 6 2640 GM Sasikiran, Krishnan GM Wang, Yue 2716 4
3 7 2595 GM Lu, Shanglei GM Bruzon Batista, Lazaro 2669 3
4 8 2703 GM Ni, Hua GM Ding, Liren 2749 2
5 9 2724 GM Wei, Yi GM Bu, Xiangzhi 2695 1

[John McKenna]

Thanks to Mick for all the info, above, and for drawing attention to this event in the first place.

Just tidying up the final round pairings, below -

Round 9 on Sat. at 02:00 BST -

1 2736 GM Yu, Yangyi (4) - (2) IM Wang, Chen 2521
2 2640 GM Sasikiran, Krishnan (3.5) - (6.5) GM Wang, Yue 2716
3 2595 GM Lu, Shanglei (2.5) - (2.5) GM Bruzon Batista, Lazaro 2669
4 2703 GM Ni, Hua (5.5) - (5) GM Ding, Liren 2749
5 2724 GM Wei, Yi (4.5) - (4) GM Bu, Xiangzhi 2695

Note that the round begins at "2 am UK time" (just 4 hrs. after tonight's 10 o'clock News starts) on Sat.

[John McKenna]

I predict a win for Yu and the rest to halve out.

[Mick Norris]

Round 9 (July 11, 2015)
Ni, Hua - Ding, Liren ½-½ 36 C67 Ruy Lopez Berlin
Wei, Yi - Bu, Xiangzhi * 50 C42 Petroff's Defence
Yu, Yangyi - Wang, Chen ½-½ 56 B48 Sicilian Paulsen
Sasikiran, Krishnan - Wang, Yue ½-½ 40 D41 Semi-Tarrasch Defence
Lu, Shanglei - Bruzon Batista, Lazaro 0-1 23 A00 Irregular Openings

Wang Yue 7/9
Ni Hua 6

[Mick Norris]

Round 9 (July 11, 2015)
Ni, Hua - Ding, Liren ½-½ 36 C67 Ruy Lopez Berlin
Wei, Yi - Bu, Xiangzhi ½-½ 102 C42 Petroff's Defence
Yu, Yangyi - Wang, Chen ½-½ 56 B48 Sicilian Paulsen
Sasikiran, Krishnan - Wang, Yue ½-½ 40 D41 Semi-Tarrasch Defence
Lu, Shanglei - Bruzon Batista, Lazaro 0-1 23 A00 Irregular Openings

Wang Yue 7/9
Ni Hua 6

[Mick Norris]

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