Hengda Cup to Wei in tiebreak
Under the name "Hengda Cup", a match between Wei Yi and David Navara took place in the eastern Chinese city of Yancheng from December 30th to January 3rd, 2018. Wei Yi is China's best junior player and number one in the FIDE Junior World Ranking. In the absolute world ranking, the young Chinese grandmaster takes 22nd place with Elo 2743. The Czech top player David Navara is ranked 17th with 2749.
A year ago, Wei narrowly lost a match against Richard Rapport, which was decided by a sudden death ("Armageddon") blitz game, and history repeated itself again this year, as the players first split four classical games, and then two blitz games, before deciding the match in a single "6 vs 5" minute game where Wei Yi had black and draw odds. But this time around Wei came out on top.
Wei Yi and David Navara get set to start | Photo: imsa.cn
Navara took the lead with a black win in the Caro Kann defense right in the first game. After a draw in the second game Wei Yi made up the deficit byt winning the third game in a Queen's Gambit. The fourth game ended again draw.
Classical games
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1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nd2 e6 5.Nb3 Nd7 6.Nf3 a6 6...Qc7 7.Be2 c5 8.0-0 c4 9.Nbd2 h6 10.c3 Ne7 11.b3 cxb3 12.Qxb3 Nc6 13.c4 Na5 14.Qa4 dxc4 15.Nxc4 Nxc4 16.Bxc4 7.Be2 c5 8.c3 h6 9.dxc5N 9.0-0 cxd4 10.cxd4 Rc8 11.Bd3 Bxd3 12.Qxd3 Ne7 13.h3 9...Bxc5 10.Nxc5 Nxc5 11.Be3 Rc8 12.0-0 Ne7 13.Nd4 0-0 14.a4 Bh7 15.a5 Nc6 16.Nxc6 Rxc6 17.Bd4 Qg5 18.Ra3 Qf5 19.b4 Nd3 20.g4 Qg6! 21.f4 Qe4 22.Bf3 Qxf4 23.Bxd5! exd5 24.Rxf4 Nxf4 25.Be3 Nd3 26.Bd4! Re8 27.Qf3 Nxe5 28.Qxd5? 28.Bxe5= Rxe5 29.Ra1 28...Nxg4-+ 29.Ra1 29...Rg6! 30.Qxb7 Ne3+ 31.Kf2! Ng4+ 32.Kg1 Ne5+ 33.Kf1 33.Kh1 Ng4 34.Qd7 34.h3 Rg5 33...Rf6+ 34.Kg2 Rg6+! 35.Kf1! Rg5 36.Bxe5 Bd3+ 37.Kf2 Rexe5 37...Rgxe5-+ 38.h4 Re2+ 39.Kg3 R8e3+ 40.Kf4 Be4 41.Qc8+ Kh7 38.Rd1? 38.Qc8+ Kh7 39.Rd1 Rgf5+ 40.Kg1 38...Re2+! 39.Kf3 Rf5+ 40.Kg4 h5+ 41.Kh4 Re4+ 0–1 - Start an analysis engine:
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| Wei,Y | 2743 | Navara,D | 2740 | 0–1 | 2017 | B12 | Hengda Cup China 2017 | 1 |
| Navara,D | 2740 | Wei,Y | 2743 | ½–½ | 2018 | C42 | Hengda Cup China 2017 | 2 |
| Wei,Y | 2743 | Navara,D | 2749 | 1–0 | 2018 | D27 | Hengda Cup China 2017 | 3 |
| Navara,D | 2740 | Wei,Y | 2743 | ½–½ | 2018 | C42 | Hengda Cup China 2017 | 4 |
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The Caro Kann is a very tricky opening. Black’s play is based on controlling and fighting for key light squares. It is a line which was very fashionable in late 90s and early 2000s due to the successes of greats like Karpov, Anand, Dreev etc. Recently due to strong engines lot of key developments have been made and some new lines have been introduced, while others have been refuted altogether. I have analyzed the new trends carefully and found some new ideas for Black.
There followed two blitz games of 5 minutes plus 3 seconds per move. Wei took the lead winning the first game, but Navara equalised with a win in the second, again with Black in the Caro-Kann defense.
Finally, the three-time Chinese Champion won the match by drawing in the "Armageddon" game.
Tiebreak games
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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Bf5 7.0-0 Be7 8.c4 dxc4 9.Bxc4 0-0 10.Nc3 Nc6 11.Re1 Nxc3 12.bxc3 Bd6 13.Ng5 h6 14.Qf3 Qd7 15.Ne4 Rae8 16.Bd2 Bg4 17.Qd3 Bf5 18.h3 Na5 19.Bb3 Nxb3 20.axb3 Qe6 21.f3 Qg6 22.Rxa7 Bxh3 23.Qf1 Bc8 24.Ra8 b6 25.Nxd6 Qxd6 26.Rxe8 Rxe8 27.Qf2 Qc6 28.Ra1 b5 29.Re1 Be6 30.Qe2 0–1
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| Navara,D | 2740 | Wei,Y | 2743 | 0–1 | 2017 | C42 | Wei Yi - Navara Match TB | 1 |
| Wei,Y | 2743 | Navara,D | 2740 | 0–1 | 2017 | B13 | Wei Yi - Navara Match TB | 2 |
| Navara,D | 2740 | Wei,Y | 2743 | ½–½ | 2017 | C42 | Wei Yi - Navara Match TB | 3 |
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Translation from German: Macauley Peterson
Correction, January 5th: An earlier version had the winner of Wei Yi vs. Rapport, 2016 backwards. As the linked article correctly reports, Rapport won in the final Armageddon game.
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