Sharp Slav Defense + Standings | Ding vs Svidler | Chess24 Legends of Chess 2020
Channel: Mordimer's Chess Channel
Date: 2020-07-25

Ding Liren is one of the best Slav Defense experts in the World, however, Peter Svidler decided to play it against the best Chinese player. Interesting that most of the games are decisive, draws are pretty rare. That was 4th game of the match and both players wanted to get three points for the win. Ding because he lost the first 3 matches and Svidler because he won the first three matches. Exciting stuff, hope you're gonna like it.

The chess24 Legends of Chess is the 4th stage of the $1 million Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour and features Magnus Carlsen, Boris Gelfand, Peter Svidler, Peter Leko, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vladimir Kramnik, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Viswanathan Anand, Anish Giri, Ding Liren. It consists of two stages, a 10-player preliminary, where each player plays each other once, followed by a knockout among the top 4. Prelim ties are played as 4-game rapid matches, while knockout ties are the best of 3 such matches. The prize fund is $150,000, with $45,000 for first place, while the winner also qualifies for the $300,000 Grand Final. The time control is 15 minutes for all moves with a 10-second increment from move 1. The winner of a preliminary tie decided in rapid games gets 3 points. If the score is 2:2 an Armageddon game is played, where White has 5 minutes to Black's 4 but a draw counts as a win for Black. A winner in Armageddon gets 2 match points, while the loser gets 1. The knockout format is the same except before Armageddon there are two 5+3 blitz games. No draw offers are allowed before move 40. 

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Ding Liren vs Peter Svidler, Legends of Chess 2020
Slav Defense: Soultanbeieff Variation [D16] 
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 e6 6. e3 c5 7. Bxc4 Nc6 8. O-O cxd4 9. exd4 Be7 10. Qe2 O-O 11. Rd1 Nd5 12. Bb3 Ncb4 13. Ne5 Bd7 14. Qg4 Nf6 15. Qg3 Kh8 16. d5 exd5 17. Bxd5 Nbxd5 18. Nxd5 Be6 19. Bh6 Nh5 20. Qf3 Bg5 21. Nf4 Qf6 22. Bxg5 Qxe5 23. Qxh5 h6 24. h4 Kg8 25. Re1 Qf5 26. g4 1-0

Link to Study created of this game: 
https://lichess.org/study/yIYZxC9d/cxQ0LwxJ#0

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0:00 Start
0:07 Introduction of Ding vs Svidler
2:05 The chess game begins here

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