by Albert Silver
3/25/2017 – In the South-Eastern area of China, next door to Hong Kong, the Longgang International chess tournament is being held in Longgang, a district of Shenzhen. With a generous purse of $90 thousand, six players are there to fight for the top prize of $20 thousand. Two of them are Chinese: Ding Liren and Yu Yangyi, and the four others are international guests: Anish Giri, Michael Adams, Pentala Harikrishna and Peter Svidler.