ASTANA, April 26, Oleg Bogatov. Russian chess player Ian Nepomniachtchi stated that in the 12th game of the match for the title of world champion in Astana he had good chances of winning, but made several inaccuracies and was defeated.
On Wednesday Nepomniachtchi lost to China's Ding Liren with Black. The score in the confrontation became equal — 6-6.
“My position at a certain moment looked winning,” Nepomniachtchi told reporters. “But in such a situation, you have to be accurate to the very end. Obviously, I was not accurate enough. Losing a game that was supposedly won is not the best case. There was a possibility of simplifying the position, but I decided to go for forced complications of the situation. I thought that everything should be fine with me. This happens.»
«The quality of the game was not very high, there were many (mutual) mistakes,» said Ding Liren. «But I can't say that I was very nervous, I didn't feel (special) emotions. I was close to losing and tried to change and complicate the situation through tactics, and after the 30th move I thought that I already had a better position.»