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Instructive game tags: Batista, China GM tournament, Chinese GM, Chinese GM Prodigy, Cuban opponent, Chinese champion, chinese chess champion, 16 year old chess prodigy, Sicilian defence, delaying d4... (Show Full Description)
Instructive game tags: Batista, China GM tournament, Chinese GM, Chinese GM Prodigy, Cuban opponent, Chinese champion, chinese chess champion, 16 year old chess prodigy, Sicilian defence, delaying d4, delayed open sicilian, tricky move order, tricky sicilian move order, Q to g3, Queen maneuver, bishops pointing at king, centralised bishops, Queen to h3, weakness of last move, f-file pressure, soft spot, drawing king out, king hunt, exploiting f-file pressure, avoiding recaptures, celebrating trump cards, avoiding routine recapture, rook sac, rook sacrifice, bringing king out, threat of double check, draw option, immortal king hunt, hunting king, king escape squares, magical move, magical chess move, sucking king down board, only move, avoiding king escape, king suction, preventing king retreat, threat of mate in one, mate in one threat, centralising move, central move creating threats, weaving mating net, mating nets, mating net, counter piece sac, attacking and defending, dual purpose move, unveiling threat, subtle threat, king visit, fantastic game, stunning game, beautiful king hunt, beyond engines, difficult for engines, emotional IQ, intuitive attack, logical basis Game quality tags: amazing, awesome, astonishing, brilliant, classic, crushing, dynamic, elegant, exceptional, excellent, exciting, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fascinating, finest, flashy, greatest, important, impressive, incredible, instructive, incredible, interesting, magnificent, marvellous, memorable, mind-blowing, must see, outrageous, remarkable, scintillating, sparkling, stunning, superb, thrilling, top, unbelievable, wonderful [Event "6th Hainan Danzhou"] [Site "Danzhou CHN"] [Date "2015.07.03"] [EventDate "2015.07.02"] [Round "2.4"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Wei Yi"] [Black "Lazaro Bruzon Batista"] [ECO "B40"] [WhiteElo "2724"] [BlackElo "2669"] [PlyCount "71"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nc3 a6 4. Be2 Nc6 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Qc7 7. O-O Nf6 8. Be3 Be7 9. f4 d6 10. Kh1 O-O 11. Qe1 Nxd4 12. Bxd4 b5 13. Qg3 Bb7 14. a3 Rad8 15. Rae1 Rd7 16. Bd3 Qd8 17. Qh3 g6 18. f5 e5 19. Be3 Re8 20. fxg6 hxg6 21. Nd5 Nxd5 22. Rxf7 Kxf7 23. Qh7+ Ke6 24. exd5+ Kxd5 25. Be4+ Kxe4 26. Qf7 Bf6 27. Bd2+ Kd4 28. Be3+ Ke4 29. Qb3 Kf5 30. Rf1+ Kg4 31. Qd3 Bxg2+ 32. Kxg2 Qa8+ 33. Kg1 Bg5 34. Qe2+ Kh4 35. Bf2+ Kh3 36. Be1 1-0 This game features an absolutely stunning "king hunt". The opening is a Sicilian Defence. It is arguably one of the greatest "immortal games" seen on a Chessboard. It was played by the young Chinese super-prodigy Wei Yi who was 16 years old at the time of this game. His opponent is the Cuban No.2 GM . An absolutely insane immortal chess game by Wei Yi ! - "Game of the Decade" is Susan Polgar's tweet! Info from chessgames.com: WEI YI (born Jun-02-1999, 16 years old) has a fast track record of chess achievement: FM (2010); IM (2012); GM (2013); Asian U12 Champion (2010); World U12 Champion (2010); Chinese Champion (2015). Born in Jiangsu province (Yancheng County), Wei Yi was the world's youngest GM when he gained his title. At 13 years 8 months and 23 days (1), he became the fourth youngest GM ever after Sergey Karjakin, Parimarjan Negi and Magnus Carlsen, the latter of whom is his favorite player "because he is so strong!" (2). He is the youngest player to reach 2600 and the youngest to reach 2700. Wei gained his FM title by winning the World U12 Championship in 2010. He won his IM norms at the Aeroflot Open 2012 B, and at the Asian Continental Chess Championship (2012) (a 20-game norm), becoming an IM a few weeks before his 13th birthday. His GM norms came at the World Junior Championship (2012), the 2nd Indonesia Open Chess Championship (2012) and at the Reykjavik Open (2013). LAZARO BRUZON BATISTA playing black - (born May-02-1982, 33 years old) Cuba - IM (1999); GM (1999). GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista was born in Cuba and has long been Cuba's #2 player behind Leinier Dominguez Perez. He began to compete internationally during his teenage years, gaining his Grandmaster title in 1999, 32 days after gaining his IM title. (1) In 2001 he became World Junior Champion and won the Lausanne Young Masters event, ahead of future top-ten players Ruslan Ponomariov, Etienne Bacrot, and Levon Aronian, among others. ?Support the channel by donating via PayPal: http://goo.gl/7HJcDq ?Playlists: http://goo.gl/FxpqEH ?FREE online chess at http://osk03.chesshorsey.com/chessclubs/asplogin.asp?from=1053 or realtime at http://www.chessclub.com/from/kingscrusher ?Follow me at Google+ : http://www.google.com/+kingscrusher Thumbnail Wei Yi By Andreas Kontokanis from Piraeus, Greece (Wei Yi) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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