Qingdao, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The 5th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Chess Team Tournament recently concluded in Qingdao with all nine rounds of competition. The Chinese team drew with Kazakhstan in the final round, and the points were overtaken by the Russian team, and finally won the runner-up.
Since its launch in 2019, the competition has been held for four times. The 10 teams participating in this competition are the Chinese team, the Chinese second team (Shanghai team), the Chinese third team (Shanghai team), the Russian team, the Kazakhstan team, the Kyrgyz team, the Tajikistan team, the Iranian team, the Mongolian team, and the Nepal team.
The Chinese team is composed of Wei Yi, the men's individual chess gold medalist at the Hangzhou Asian Games, Wang Yue, the team world champion in the Chess Olympiad, and Tan Zhongyi, the former world chess queen. After the start of the match, the Chinese team and the Russian team made great progress, and the Russian team swept the opponent in the seventh and eighth rounds in a row, slowly narrowing the gap with the top Chinese team. After the end of the eighth round, the two teams have exactly the same game score and game score, and the Chinese team is only slightly ahead of the opponent with "Sauber points".
In the last round, the Chinese team played against the Kazakhstan team, although Wei Yi successfully defeated the opponent, but Tan Zhongyi, who had been playing well, unexpectedly lost, and Wang Yue won a draw, and the Chinese team was forced to draw by the opponent at the last moment of the championship. The Russian team defeated the three Chinese teams in the other game to win the tournament.
During the competition, a seminar on the results of chess events in the SCO countries was also held, and the SCO Demonstration Zone will continue to deepen the cultivation of chess and card brand sports events, comprehensively expand cultural and sports exchanges with the SCO countries, promote people-to-people bonds, and build a practice place for the SCO countries' cultural community.