China wins FIDE Online Nations Cup against US

It was round midnight in Beijing that Chinese Grandmaster Wei Yi broke right into a rueful smile, as his American opponent Fabiano Caruana, sitting in his beachside home in Miami, the place it was simply midday, killed an exhilarating faceoff with a slick end-game manoeuvre. The victory left the FIDE Online Nations Cup super-final locked in a 2-2 draw, although China have been declared winners as they’d received the round-robin



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The 4 Chinese Grandmasters—Yi, Ding Liren, Hou Yifan and Yu Yangyi—appeared briefly for a video convention on the ChessBase web site, that was live-streaming the week-long event. Following on the livestream, their eyes seemed sleepy however beaming, the voices sounded blissful however drowsy to all who adopted them on-line. Their American counterparts have been dreary and downcast, although Caruana later lifted the gloom along with his attribute humour.