The power of the bishops | Hou Yifan vs Ding Liren | Chinese Championships 2009

GM Daniel King demonstrates the game Hou Yifan vs Ding Liren. Support on Patreon: 🔥 / powerplaychess ►Support via PayPal: www.paypal.com...
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[@PowerPlayChess]

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[@JJ-kl7eq]

I’m all for Dingfest, even if I don’t get another Monday holiday off work each year.

[@damiester1]

The fact that Hou Yifan was a 2600 when she was 15 is remarkable. Perhaps she really could've surpassed Judit Polgar if she hadn't given up chess in her prime.

[@lessormore001]

She completely dominated women's chess and was a multiple world champion without any competition from other women, despite the fact that she devoted half as much time to training as them. She was already the Magnus of women's chess. Most of the best chess players in the world believe that if she devoted herself entirely to chess, her game would be at the level of the best men and she would be the first woman who could compete for the highest goals on an equal footing. Vladimir Kramnik considered her a better chess player than Judit Polgar and was sure she could beat her top rating, and a rating of 2700 elo would be the bare minimum if Hou decided to play chess professionally. Anish Giri, in turn, said in an interview that when he and Hou were the same age, she played better than him, counted variants faster, had better time, and saw moves that he couldn't. Grandmasters rated 2700 elo and above unanimously claimed that the real power of Hou's game goes far beyond her rating, and sometimes even though they didn't make any mistakes, they still lost to her without noticing when.

[@elhugo13]

I am really enjoying this vids, to answer your question.

[@DrZygote214]

Can i request videos? It's more Dingfest ofc! The Candidates 2021, he won the last 3 games in a row. You covered Round 14 vs Nepo, but his wins against Grischuk in Round 12 and Alekseenko in Round 13 were rly cool, would love to see them from you.

[@praveennarayanan9451]

This game is so reminiscent of the beautiful Soviet era games by Botvinnik and Petrosian. There were two very similar examples in Nunn and Euwe's "The development of Chess style" with the thematic Rc4 French exchange sac ideas (the Botvinnik game was a Ruy though, and in Hort-Petrosian, he sacs the exchange differently with Rf7xf6, but the themes are extremely illustrative). Also very evocative of Nimzo's pompous commentary from Chess Praxis on how to open long diagonals. Marvelous stuff really. GM King, I would like to request a series on exchange sacrifices if it's not in your playlist. It seems like it is very 'routine' these days.

[@PowerPlayChess]

Thanks for the suggestion. Exchange sacs are certainly far more routine than in days past.

[@rumaulia2709]

Hi Daniel, will you cover Kamsky vs Ding in the French? That was one fantastic game by Ding!

[@djgresearch]

Great game - what creativity and maturity from Ding. The WC looked so tiring and here's me thinking that they'd take a month or so off. Not a bit of it - many of the top players, including Ding and Nepo are competing in the chess classic in Bucharest and they've already met again.

[@conovan5081]

I respect their grind

[@nikitaukraine3473]

Great! Will see how Ding will manage post WCh tournaments in GCT series.

[@joseraulcapablanca8564]

A great attacking concept from Ding.Thanks Daniel

[@Cyst11]

Perhaps so your continued series on Ding needn't be entirely at the expense of current events, you could cover the most recent Superbet game and his first decisive game as world champion? It was an interesting enough game and happened to feature Ding, which should make it highly worthy of coverage.

[@PowerPlayChess]

I am travelling at the moment so unfortunately it isn't possible for me to cover the games.

[@bonghunezhou5051]

"Yifan" but not LIREN?! I recall a similar game with Topalov and Kramnik, in which one player exchanges a rook for a bishop in order to create a central passed pawn.

[@LondonofGont]

Loving Dingfest!

[@Opferschach]

In November 2020 I watched Arkadij Naiditsch streaming and commentating on an online game between Nakamura and Vachier-Lagrave, and I noticed that he repeatedly refered to Nakamura as 'Nakamura', but to Vachier-Lagrave as 'Maxime,' i.e. by his first name. I asked Naiditsch about it, and he said, yes, he worked with Vachier-Lagrave for a while, so he knows him much more closely. By the same token, people who know Nakamura more closely usually call him 'Hikaru.' In this video you call Ding by his last name, and Hou by her first name. I know you interviewd both players before, but I am curious, do you have any other connection to Hou that you don't have to Ding?

[@PowerPlayChess]

Nothing behind it at all. I just got into the habit of calling them by those names.

[@davidblack2970]

Actually, I think that Chinese people put their surname first. So by Western standards his first name would be Liren and his last name Ding.

[@Herlock07]

Carlsen's rating when he was 16 was 2765. Ding's rating when he was 16 was 2458. How did Ding managed to become a 2800+ player?

[@mattkim96]

Just dropping a comment and like cause I’m very curious as well if anyone knows. Did Ding start playing a lot later than other super GMs?

[@PowerPlayChess]

Players develop at different stages and at different rates according to their circumstances and talent. It isn't much more complicated than that.

[@PowerPlayChess]

@@mattkim96 According to Wikipedia he learned the moves at the age of four.

[@mattkim96]

@@PowerPlayChess thank you :)! And great video as always.

[@wiserhinoceros]

@@PowerPlayChess He may not have had the opportunities to play internationally as early as players like Magnus, too. I imagine that exposure to top talent makes quite a difference?

[@LateCloser]

As a 1 e4 player, I've never enjoyed playing traditional French lines as white; despite their favorable reputations. I've always disliked the pawn structure. The d4 pawn always demands more attention than I want to give it. As a result, I play "offbeat" systems like the King's Indian Attack. Stockfish doesn't find them as appealing, but I prefer the positions that arise. This was certainly a nightmare of a game for Yifan. Ding in his element. Fun to see. Thanks!

[@goodsuggestionbutno6783]

On 18:03 i found a really Interesting move i think may work. That after 1. Kh2 Rb3, 2. Rxd2!? Is that a move?

[@alexdommnich2544]

Yeah, but you play 1. … Ra3 and there is no defense against Ra1.

[@ZhangBangsFury]

Ding ❤

[@RoyGazoff]

Ding does