The Daily Update: St. Louis & Danzhou
While the classical portion of the Nakamura-Ponomariov and Finegold-Robson matches finished on Sunday, there were still four rapid games to be played. They got two in the books today, and then the last two will be played tomorrow. The results: Nakamura drew the first game with Black and won the second with White, giving him an overall match lead of 5-3. Finegold had the same results in the opposite order, winning with White (his first victory in the match) before drawing the second game. He thus closed Robson's lead to a single point, 4.5-3.5. (Event site here.)
In Danzhou, China, a very strong round-robin event just finished, won impressively by rising star Yu Yangyi with 7/9. Wang Yue and Bu Xiangzhi (a current and former 2700) finished tied for second 1.5 points back, while current Chinese #1 Wang Hao tied for 4th-5th with Zhou Jinchao another half a point back. Women's world champion Hou Yifan had a rough time of things, finishing last with just two points. (Event site here, TWIC's event page here.)
Reader Comments (1)
Correction: Nakamura drew with black in the first game and won with white in the second game.
[DM: Thanks - that is what I meant to write, but obviously didn't! I've made the correction.]