strong>ASTANA, April 10, Andrey Simonenko. Russian grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi said that the Chinese chess player Ding Liren made a tricky move in the opening of the second game of the match for the world chess crown.
On Monday Nepomniachtchi defeated Ding Liren with black pieces. The score in the confrontation was 1.5-0.5 in favor of the Russian. The next batch will take place on April 12.
«»I felt that the move h3 is the influence of (Richard's second) Rapport. A tricky move with an idea, but I switched to the Queen's Gambit Accepted and ended up in a position that was familiar to me, but without the move h3. Then I «I consolidated the pieces in the center and everything happened by itself. I expected to see the move g3, but when I saw h3, I immediately thought that this was Rapport's idea. But in general I consider this move normal,» Nepomniachtchi said at a press conference.
«You could have gone f6 and transferred the queen to g7, but I had all the pieces well placed, except for this knight, so this move suggested itself,» the Russian chess player noted.
Nepomniachtchi added that, most likely, friends and parents would be the first to congratulate him on his victory, but he said that he did not concentrate on the phone and social networks.