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Ding Liren vs Ian Nepomniachtchi
World Championship Candidates (2020/21), Yekaterinburg RUS, rd 14, Apr-27
Indian Game: Anti-Grünfeld. Alekhine Variation (D70)  ·  1-0

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Apr-27-21
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  MissScarlett: It is not enough to be a world title challenger, one must also play well.
Apr-27-21  fisayo123: Ding was really powerful in the 2nd half of the Candidates. Even in the 1 game he lost to Giri, he was outplaying Giri before the rash g4 move.

He was also better in pretty much all his other games other than the theory debate with Wang Hao in round 8.

The timing of the pandemic in China and the quarantine clearly had a negative effect as now he's back to his previous level

Apr-27-21
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  MissScarlett: He was lost against Alekseenko.
Apr-28-21  Viking707: Ding's move 17. Nc2, followed by his Qe3 sealed the capture of the black Knight. I thought they were mistakes at the time, but they cleverly insured his advantage.
Apr-30-21  Nechess: Why don't I see Nepo able to be a world champion?

<fisayo123> forget about the pandemic, if u are good then u are good.

May-01-21  fabelhaft: If Ding was a bit unlucky in the first half, everything was going his way in the last rounds. First Grischuk refused to just take a draw when he thought he had to win, took crazy risks and lost. Then Alekseenko went from winning to losing in one blunder of the sort that would have made everyone cry about collusion if his opponent had been Russian. Then Nepo had already won before the last round and played far below his level.

As for Nepo not feeling like a World Champion yet, he is after all a challenger with a comparatively weak CV. Top ten for only two years in spite of being 30. Still, it’s rare that matches are uneven nowadays and he is not without chances.

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