Wang Yue qualifies for Amber 2009
30 August 2008, 13.47 CET | Last modified: 17:07 | By Peter Doggers | Filed under: Reports | Tags:
By drawing Evgeny Bareev in just nine moves, GM Wang Yue from China won the competition among the Rising Stars about an hour ago, qualifying for the prestigious Amber tournament to be held in March 2009.
This was going to be a report on the penultimate, 9th round of the NH Chess Tournament, but Wang Yue and Bareev had finished their last-round game so fast, that we might as well include it! It concluded a great one-man show in a match that was never going to be the main story. Instead, the Chinese grandmaster higlights the news, all the more since he’s now virtually entered the world’s top ten.
Wang Yue’s gold medal on board four for China two years ago at the Olympiad in Turin was a prelude to even bigger successes. There he stayed undefeated and scored 10/12, and until the NH Chess Tournament this was actually Wang’s main asset: he very rarely loses. Adding seven wins and three draws in Amsterdam, he’s now undefeated for an incredible 55 games in a row (his last loss was against Thorfinsson at the Reykjavik Open on March 3 this year) - isn’t that a record?
But we shouldn’t let today’s news overtake what happened yesterday, because in the 9th round, the Experience team managed to score their first victory in a minimatch against the Rising Stars: 3-2, thanks to Ljubojevic’s first victory, against Caruana. Congrats to the legends - they deserved it! Ljubojevic speaks in my video on yesterday’s round, down this post.
| Rising Stars | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Wang Yue | g | CHN | 2704 | 8 | ||||
| 2. | Cheparinov, Ivan | g | BUL | 2687 | 7 | ||||
| 3. | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2630 | 5½ | ||||
| 4. | L’Ami, Erwin | g | NED | 2610 | 5 | 5. | Stellwagen, Daniël | g | NED | 2616 | 4½ |
| Total | 30 | ||||||||
| Experience | |||||||||
| 1. | Agdestein, Simen | g | NOR | 2583 | 4 | ||||
| 3. | Bareev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2655 | 3½ | ||||
| 3. | Ljubojevic, Ljubomir | g | SRB | 2555 | 3 | ||||
| 4. | Korchnoi, Viktor | g | SUI | 2602 | 2½ | ||||
| 5. | Jussupow, Artur | g | GER | 2587 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 15 | ||||||||
Here are the games of the ninth round:
Links:
http://www.uep-chess.com/cms_english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=12
According this website it says “Kramnik was unbeaten at the highest level in 86 classical games over 18 months up to July 2000.”
On wikipedia, it’s Mikhail Tal with 95 games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_records_in_chess#Consecutive_games_without_a_loss
an incredible 55 games in a row (his last loss was against Thorfinsson at the Reykjavik Open on March 3 this year) - isn’t that a record?
There is no way that is even close to a record.
“isn’t that a record?” for a non-Russian player I meant of course
Tal was not russian. He was the magician from Riga.
What a great video!
About the “Nine-Fold Repetition” video: I think it would have been worth mentioning the famous Zukertort-Steinitz game from the 1886 World Championship (though the match rules allowed six-fold repetitions if I remember well). But probably the gossip-wise approach of the video couldn’t favour some room for chess culture. Oh well, someone can still a look at that game now, hopefully
Janis, which game exactly are you referring to? I don’t know of any repetition-draw or some sort of incident in this match, I’d be interested to know. Anyway, surely there’s a difference between a funny video and a cultural background story. Both are interesting, but they don’t necessarily have to coincide all the time, wouldn’t you agree?
Arne dear Arne, I’m not very good at finding games on the Internet, I’m old enough to having studied chess in the books and without any computer!
[And no, I'm not 25 as I stated in another comment, that was a joke]
Anyway, I did some effort only for you and here it is:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1132646
(I hope the link works)
And this is the link to all the games of that match, if someone is interested:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=53788
As for the video, oh I am very tolerant, don’t worry, anything is fine. There is entertainment and there is journalism, there is chess culture and there is gossip, there are paintings and there are daubs… It’s okay, as long as the freedom of choosing and criticizing will exist
Best. J.
My comment is awaiting for moderation? Since when this blog is moderated? What happened?
Well Arne, the link to the game is in my comment awaiting moderation
It’s approved now, Janis. No wonder I didn’t find the game: I was only looking for draws! Looks like the recent game was still somewhat unique
I never said that they didn’t set some sort of (negative) record, but that wasn’t my point and you proved me that you got my point very well
And yeah, the Steinitz game is cool because it didn’t end in a draw! 
All the best, Janis
Still curious about how this moderation works, ’cause all of my comments are getting through except that one. Is it the number of lines or some key words? What’s the factor that traps the message?
As soon as there’s two or more url’s in a comment, it’s automatically going into “moderation modus”, because spam comments normally contain lots of hyperlinks.
Oh I see, thanks, I will pay attention not to do it again.
I don’t know where to ask this so I guess I’ll do it here: will Chessvibes be in Bilbao? I hope so!