The Daily Update: Wei Yi Leads Danzhou
The Geneva (chess) convention is off today, so that leaves Danzhou as the one super-event seeing action on Tuesday. Coming into the round there had been only one win in the first two rounds, by Wei Yi, and in round three he made it a double by defeating Ruslan Ponomariov with White in a Reti. Someone else finally won a game, though, and that was top seed Ding Liren. He defeated Lu Shanglei (Wei Yi's first round victim) with Black in an Italian. White often plays an early h3 in the Giuoco, and the plan demonstrated by Ding of going ...Ng4, ...Kh8, and ...f5 (with the knight retreating to h6 when kicked by h3) is a strong one that isn't as widely known as it ought to be, even among titled players. Italianistas, take note!
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