Dai Changren and Tan Zhongyi win Chinese Championships

A minor sensation

Dai Changren and Tan Zhongyi are the new champions of China. The 2022 Chinese Championships took place in Xinghua, Jiangsu province, on November 2-11. Both tournaments, open and women’s, were 12-player round robins with classical time controls.

In the absence of top Chinese players, the open event caused a minor sensation as the tenth seed in the starting list, Dai Changren (pictured below), scored 7/11 points and finished clear first, a half point ahead of Zhao Jun (6½/11), who took silver.

Two players tied for third place, with Xu Xiangyu claiming bronze thanks to a better Sonneborn-Berger score compared to Li Di. The event was a very close competition, with neither player completing the tournament unbeaten.

Dai Changren

Final standings - Open

		Name	Rtg	Pts
1	IM	Dai Changren	2515	7
2	GM	Zhao Jun	2600	6½
3	GM	Xu Xiangyu	2577	6
4	GM	Li Di	2539	6
5	IM	Lou Yiping	2490	5½
6	GM	Liu Yan	2532	5½
7	GM	Xu Yi	2502	5½
8	GM	Lu Shanglei	2605	5½
9	GM	Bai Jinshi	2569	5½
10	GM	Xu Yinglun	2553	5
11	GM	Zeng, Chongsheng	2604	4
12	IM	Xu Zhixing	2504	4

The women’s event was quite a different scenario, as rating favourite Tan Zhongyi dominated the field. Despite losing to Xiao Yiyi, she netted an impressive 9/11 and came out on top, 1½ points ahead of her main competitor, who claimed silver. This was Tan’s second national title.

There was a tie for third place in the women’s competition as well, with Guo Qi edging out Zhai Mo by dint of slightly better tiebreaks.

Chinese Chess Championship 2022

The playing hall

Final standings - Women’s

		Name	Rtg	Pts
1	GM	Tan Zhongyi	2514	9
2	WGM	Xiao Yiyi	2326	7½
3	IM	Guo Qi	2391	7
4	WGM	Zhai Mo	2371	7
5	WIM	Song Yuxin	2311	6½
6	WGM	Ni Shiqun	2370	5
7		Zhang Lanlin	2200	5
4	WGM	Li Xueyi	2297	4½
9	IM	Wang Yu	2276	4½
10	WIM	Chu Ruotong	2224	4
11	WIM	Ren Xiaoyi	2207	3½
12		Yuan Ye	2086	2½

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