The 8th Wenling Cup National Chess National Game has come to an end. The special master Zhao Xinxin is a double blessing. Not only did he win the championship trophy, but he also replaced Wang Tianyi as the first person in the new fast chess level, waiting for the official announcement of Chinese Chess Association on October 1.
Zhao Teda Double Happiness
In the fast chess level ranking officially announced on January 1 this year, Wang Tianyi ranked first with 2606.7 points, Jiang Chuan ranked second with 2600.9 points, and Zhao Xinxin ranked third with 2574.6 points. Zhao Te is 32.1 points less than Lao Wang, so the gap should be said is not small. Surprisingly, in just over half a year, Zhao Te replaced it, with the real-time fast chess score reaching 2620.2 points, while Wang Tianyi dropped to 2595 points and ranked second, Zheng Weitong ranked third with 2584 points, and Jiang Chuan dropped to 2580 points and fell out of the top three.
2022First half of the year Fast Chess Level
This year, there are not many competitions. The rating and score events that Lao Wang and Zhao Te participated were completely consistent, which provided us with specific data comparing the scores of two fast chess points:
Zhao Xinxin: 4 fast chess wins in the Xiangjia League (+16 points), 2 fast chess wins in the North and South Championship (+10 points), 4 fast chess wins in the Wenling Cup (+19.6 points);
Wang Tianyi: 1 fast chess win in the Xiangjia League (+1.1 points), 2 fast chess wins in the North and South Championship (-1.4 points), 2 fast chess wins in the Wenling Cup (-11.4 points).
From these data, we can see that the number of fast chess and winning rates of the two are very different. Lao Wang played 5 fast chess this year, while Zhao Te played 10 fast chess; Lao Wang won 2 and 3 losses, while Zhao Te won 10 wins in 10 games. In other words, Zhao Te won 11 more fast chess than Wang Tianyijing, more than enough to catch up with the 32.1 point gap. From this perspective, at least this year's performance, Zhao Te is indeed more worthy of "the first person in fast chess level" than Lao Wang.
However, "Das Kapital" tells us to see the essence through phenomena. Behind the data of Wang Tianyi Quick Chess, his helplessness is reflected.
Let’s talk about Zheng Weitong first. Xiao Zheng also won all the fast chess this year, but he only played fast chess twice in the North and South matches, and did not participate in the Wenling Cup, while all the elephant armors were slow chess to determine the outcome.
If the gap between Wang Tianyi and Zhao Xinxin comes from both quantity and winning rate in terms of fast chess level, then the gap between Zheng Weitong and Zhao Xinxin obviously only comes from quantity.
Why are there obvious differences in the number of fast chess players as both top chess players?
This is mainly attributed to the competition system. The current chess competitions are mostly slow chess - fast chess - play-offs, and there are also slow chess - fast chess - super fast chess - play-offs. Any game will end if the winner is decided (a match with less than 15 minutes is collectively called fast chess. The so-called "super fast chess" is just convenient to distinguish, but in fact it is also fast chess, and the grades are only counted once based on the final result). In other words, only by slow chess can you have the chance to enter the subsequent link. As we all know, the winning rates of Wang Tianyi and Zheng Weitong are extremely high. Many times they win by slow chess, and naturally they lose the chance of adding fast chess. Taking Xiangjia as an example, Wang Tianyi's slow chess match 7 wins and 1 draw, and only 1 chance of fast chess; Zheng Weitong's slow chess match 5 wins and 1 loss, and no chance of fast chess match; while Zhao Xinxin's slow chess matched 4 draws and got 4 chances of fast chess.
In addition, Wang Tianyi and Zheng Weitong have a high winning rate of slow chess, which also means that those who cannot win slow chess are often very high. Even if they enter the fast chess stage with more chance, it is very difficult to get a high winning rate.
Therefore, for Wang Tianyi and Zheng Weitong, who pay special attention to the slow chess level, the slow chess and fast chess level are contradictory, and fish and bear's paw cannot have both. Unless the special fast chess competitions with grade-based scores (such as last year's first National Fast Chess Championship) are increased to a certain number in the future, this problem is unsolvable.
So, will other chess players face this contradiction? The answer is yes. No matter who you are, as long as you are facing an opponent who is more than 3 points lower than your slow chess level, you will lose the slow chess level if you don’t win. However, other chess players do not pay as much attention to slow chess level as Wang Tianyi and Zheng Weitong.In fact, with Wang Zheng's "Temini Star" shining and his slow chess level far surpassing everyone, others, including Zhao Xinxin, who want to get the first place in the slow chess level, will not see any hope for the time being. So for Zhao Te, being the first in fast chess rating is undoubtedly a great pleasure in life. After all, being the first in fast chess rating is also the "first person".
