A day after chess legend Magnus Carlsen mentioned that he was most impressed by Turkish phenom Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus on the FIDE Grand Swiss event, Hans Niemann handed the 14-year-old a defeat in simply 26 strikes in spherical 7 of the Samarkand occasion.
Carlsen, whereas speaking to the Take Take Take app, was requested which younger participant had impressed him at Grand Swiss. The world no 1 mentioned: “Erdogmus is basically, actually good, at nearly unprecedented ranges at that age. So, he’s clearly impressed me probably the most from the younger, non-established gamers.”
Simply hours after these feedback aired, Niemann — who was concerned in a $100 million lawsuit with Carlsen over unsubstantiated allegations that Niemann had cheated on the Sinquenfield Cup — crushed the Turkish teen after negating his opening surprises.
Taking part in with white items, Niemann received a bonus early on and saved pushing {the teenager} until he resigned in 26 strikes. Niemann thus grew to become the primary participant to defeat Erdogmus at Grand Swiss, a feat that world champion Gukesh, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Vincent Keymer, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (who can also be Erdogmus’s coach) and Aditya Mittal couldn’t handle in earlier rounds.
INTERACTIVE: How Hans Niemann beat Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus in 26 strikes
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All of the strikes from Niemann’s win over Erdogmus
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. O-O Bg4 8. c3 f5 9. Nbd2 Qf6 10. Qa4 O-O-O 11. Bb5 Nxd2 12. Nxd2 f4 13. Re1 f3 14. h3 Bh5 15. Bxc6 bxc6 16. Re5 Qg6 17. g3 Bd6 18. Nb3 Rhf8 19. Be3 Rde8 20. Qxc6 Bxe5 21. Qa8+ Kd7 22. Nc5+ Ke7 23. Qxd5 Qf5 24. Bg5+ Rf6 25. dxe5 Qxg5 26. exf6+ gxf6
“He appeared so nervous, I needed to maintain strain (on him). I needed to get a positional, technical sport in opposition to him, he’s fairly a concrete younger participant, so you need to take the children to the endgame,” Niemann mentioned on the FIDE livestream of the occasion whereas speaking concerning the sport. “I’ve checked out his video games and technically and positionally if you end up youthful, you lack some expertise with the endgame. You’ll be able to inform by his opening selections that he’s attempting to complicate the sport in any respect prices. Primarily with youthful gamers, as a result of they lack expertise, you wish to get them right into a place they’ve by no means performed earlier than. One other 2650-rated participant who has expertise wouldn’t get into hassle like this within the opening as a result of they’re a bit extra pessimistic and so they’re jaded from being crushed by stronger gamers. It’s important to be taught classes the laborious approach generally.”
Requested if he was helped by Erdogmus attempting to be formidable, Niemann mentioned: “Undoubtedly. It’s superb when your opponents are formidable with black items. You see some gamers try so laborious to get a superb sport with white…”
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Niemann mentioned that he was shocked with a few early strikes from the younger Erdogmus.
“The Petrov (defence) was fairly a shock, I don’t assume he’s performed it earlier than. I used to be truly fairly joyful. He likes enjoying this bizarre forcing stuff,” the American added.
Niemann mentioned that he had ready “extra” for this sport, however not for the opening part “as a result of I knew he was going to shock me”.
“I analyzed a variety of his video games and his coach’s sport and watched a variety of his on-line video games to get a way of his type,” Niemann added.
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