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Tie-break? Bring it on.
That has been a taxable opus astatine the Chess World Cup. Wei Yi and Javokhir Sindarov sang it alternatively good astatine Resort Rio connected Tuesday. They agreed to a speedy gully successful the 2nd classical crippled of the semifinal.
Their archetypal crippled had besides been drawn, but not arsenic fast, and Wednesday’s tie-break games – successful accelerated and past blitz if indispensable – volition present find t=he champion. The 2nd classical crippled proved shorter than a accelerated one, successful fact.
Wei and Sindarov needed conscionable 24 minutes – and the minimum 30 moves -- to decorativeness their Four Knights Game. The players’ attack to specified a important crippled was not surprising, though.
The day’s different crippled was conscionable arsenic important, if not more. Andrey Esipenko and Nodirbek Yakubboev were warring for a spot successful the Candidates tournament, the qualifier that would determine the World title challenger (the apical 3 from the World Cup get the summons to Cyprus directly). And Esipenko won that game, and frankincense the lucifer 2-0.
After winning his archetypal game, the Russian had lone needed a draw. But his Uzbek rival was successful a must-win concern arsenic lone the afloat constituent could person forced a tie-break; it alternatively proved a nightmare.
In the English Opening game, Yakubboev got into an inferior presumption early: determination was a dubious 11th determination with his bishop, and a mates of moves later, Esipenko came up with an fantabulous pawn-push connected the queen-side. A steep descent it was from past connected for Yakubboev, who yet resigned aft 26 moves, with checkmate not acold away.
Not galore whitethorn grudge Esipenko’s victory. It was his blunder successful the semifinal against Wei that prevented him from booking his spot successful the Candidates earlier.
“It is the champion show of my career,” helium said soon aft staging the spirited comeback.
The results: Final: Wei Yi (Chn) 1 drew with Javokhir Sindarov (Uzb) 1. Third spot playoff: Nodirbek Yakkobev (Uzb) 0 mislaid to Andrey Esipenko (Rus) 2.
