On May 6, Beijing time, the new world chess king Ding Liren will play in the Bucharest Chess Super Tour, which is also the first event of this year's Chess Grand Tour. For Ding Li people, this is a very cruel thing.
Ding Liren won the title on April 30 by defeating Nepomnyaki, and in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, the two experienced a very brutal 14-game slow chess battle, followed immediately by fast chess, as well as accelerated chess, and physical strength and energy have reached the limit. The gold content of Ding Liren's title of chess king will not be discussed in this article.
After nearly a month of brutal fighting and winning the world championship, the first thing I really want to do is take a vacation to relax my body and mind for a while. But less than a week later, the Bucharest station started again.
In this game, except for the former chess king Carlson, who has gone to play cards, the rest of the world's first-line masters have almost arrived. New chess king Ding Liren and chess Yaseng Nepomniacki are both participating. Also competing in the current top 10 are Anish Giri, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley Soh and Alireza Firuja, the first time in half a year for Iranian Firuja.
Also participating were three players from last year's Madrid Championship Trials, Maxim Vasiye Langlav, Jan Křishtoff Duda and Richard Laporte. Vasiye Langlaf was the last tournament champion, and Richard Laporte was the assistant who helped Ding Liren just win to the top of the world chess title. Romania's Bogdan Daniel Diak, ranked 38th in the world, will play as a wildcard player.
All 10 participating players have a rating of 2,700 points or more, and the tournament is played in a 9-round round-robin format. The time limit for the Bucharest race is 40 steps and 90 minutes, the rest of the time is 30 minutes, plus 30 seconds plus seconds from the first step. The total prize pool is $350,000, and the winner will receive $100,000.
This competition is a huge challenge for Ding Liren, and the other 9 people want to attack him, and there is no psychological baggage. The Chess Super Tour will continue in Warsaw from May 19 to 26. From 3 to 10 July, the third stop will be moved to Zagreb. Subsequently, the competition will also be held in St. Louis, USA.