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FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup 2020 (Games and Results)

FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup 2020

The FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup took place May 5-10, 2020. 6 teams Russia, USA, Europe, China, India, plus a team representing the "Rest of the World" will compete in a rapid (25 minutes + 10 seconds a move) tournament hosted by the chess.com servers. Many of the leading players in the world will compete for their nations and the $180,000 (166,109 euros) prize-fund.

Players include: Caruana, Ding, Nepomniachtchi, MVL, Aronian, So, Radjabov Giri, Wang Hao, Leinier Dominguez, Duda, Anand, Karjakin, Nakamura, Wei Yi, Firouzja etc. Garry Kasparov will captain the European team.

China were the dominant team throughout - they only lost the final preliminary match to the USA who they also met in the final. As China topped the qualification group they got draw odds in the final. The match was indeed drawn 2-2. The decisive games in the final were Caruana beating Wei Yi and Yu Yangyi beating Wesley So.

China win the FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup on tie-break from the USA (Day 6)

The final match of the FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup was tied 2-2 with the title going to China as a result of them winning the preliminary stage. Although this was rather rough on a game USA side the Chinese domination of the first stage did deserve some reward.

It was fitting that the top two performers in the entire tournament also won their final games leaving Fabiano Caruana on a score of 7.5/9 and Yu Yangyi a score of 7.5/10.

The US strategy seemed to be to try and draw on boards 1, 3 and 4 and hope that Caruana win with white on board 2 against Wei Yi. Caruana won a pawn but things became very complicated and it was in the Rook and Knight endgame Caruana whistled up an attack that won the game. 30...Re2 (30...Rxa2 was better) seems to have been the decisive error.

This worked except So couldn't hold on against a savage attack from Yu Yangyi. So was under pressure throughout and then fell to the sacrifice 26.Ng5+.

On the other boards Hikaru Nakamura got a draw with black in an extremely sharp battle against Ding Liren. Although the computers give him a slight edge at the end a draw with black was a great result. Likewise Irina Krush played the Exchange French against Hou Yifan who out rated her by over 200 Elo point and she held the draw very comfortably.

FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup 2020 (Day 6)

The winning Chinese team. Photo ©

The winning Chinese team. Photo © | https://chess.com

FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup 2020 (chess.com INT)
Tue 5th May 2020 - Sun 10th May 2020 - Official Site - Live

Online Nations Cup Prelim (6 players 10 Rds League Team TC:25m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games Prelim

Online Nations Cup Final (2 players 2 Rds League Team TC:25m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games Final

Online Nations Cup Prelim (6 players 10 Rds League Team TC: 25m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games Prelim

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Online Nations Cup Prelim chess.com INT Tue 5th May 2020 - Sun 10th May 2020
Leading Final Round 10 Standings:
RkTeam1a1b2a2b3a3b4a4b5a5b6a6bMptsBptsTB1TB2TB3
1China3231725.50473.561
2USA132313220418.858.5
3Europe132221321.50414.353
4Russia2122328190370.845
5India222517.50353.343
6Rest of the World1½1212414.50295.539.5
6 teams

Online Nations Cup Final (2 players 2 Rds League Team TC: 25m+10spm) - Games in PGN: Games Final

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