2018-06-14

Svidler won the rapid match against Yu Yangyi!

The Chinese Blitz Champion Yu Yangyi and the 8-time Russian Champion Peter Svidler competed their chess mastership in a rapid and blitz match from 12 to 14 June, 2018 in Shenzhen, China.
On the second match day Peter Svidler had 3 wins and a draw  and took the score of 12 points.
Yu Yangyi finished impressively with 4 wins from the last 5 blitz games, but Svidler had the prevalence of the rapid wins!
(picture from qipai.org.cn)

Peter Svidler won with a scoreline of 15.5-10.5. Congratulations!


Watch the games of the Svidler vs Yu 2018 with computer analysis on ChessBomb.