Ding vs Vincent || 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad 2026

Hello everyone and welcome to the second game we're covering from round six of this year's FIDE Chess Olympiad. We've seen what happened on board one between Uzbekistan and India. Uzbekistan has defeated India and it was quite spectacular. If you haven't seen it, check it out. It's my previous video and now we tend to the match China versus Germany. On board one we have the former world classical champion Ding Liren and facing him Vincent Keimer. Germany's number one. It's a beautiful game. You will love it. Let's dive straight into it. So Ding with white opens with knight to f3 and remember Germany is still on 100%. They defeated USA in the previous round and it was quite quite quite an upset regardless of how strong Germany is. So knight f3 d5 with g3 this is some sort of a king's Indian attack with an invitation to a Sicilian something like that. Castles king side g6 we have pawn to d4 and c captures on d4. We have knight captures and bishop to g7 and c4 is by far the most popular here. We have a knight back to b3 by Ding and castles king side we have knight to c3 pawn to e6 and pawn to e4. Striking in the center knight to c6 and e captures on d5. We have e captures and bishop to g5 just nicely pinning the knight h6 with bishop back to e3 and the rook to e8 and here Ding just played queen to d2 and it seems that Vincent realized that Ding was just fooling around with the position because Ding already played at this position. It was a couple of years ago in 2019 in the world team championship. He played it against Michael Adams and Michael Adams played knight to g4 here putting pressure on the bishop and also just keeping around that h6 pawn and it's one of the top moves recommended by the engine but maybe Vincent realized that maybe not. Maybe he's just playing a game. He decided to go knight to e4 investing almost 10 minutes here and he's already down to 45 minutes on the clock and he wants to trade this pawn for this pawn and it is now as of move 13 that we have a completely new game. So Ding captures the knight. He plays knight captures on e4 invests some almost 15 minutes here. D captures with bishop captures on h6 and the queens come off the board. Queen captures bishop captures and Vincent also gobbles up the b2 pawn. Rook a to e1 and now you could play f5 but I think maybe if it was you know just a standard game maybe Vincent goes f5. Here he goes bishop to f5. It does appear to be a bit more solid. h3 we have rook a to c8 and pawn to g4 but this is probably the idea behind bishop to f5 pawn to e3 and it's not really an offer to trade bishops because if you play g captures on f5 then Vincent can play e2 and he's going to win an exchange here. So Ding has to agree to just trade pawns. Bishop captures on e3. Bishop captures on c2 and now rook e2 inviting bishop to d3 but then the bishop on b2 would fall. So knight to b4 defending the bishop and bishop captures on b7 attacking the rook. Rook c7 bishop to f3 and now even knight captures on e2. So just trading pawns and now it's three pawns each with a lot of pieces on the board. Knight d4 attacks the bishop twice and now Vincent decides to trade with bishop captures on d4. Bishop captures rook captures on e2. Bishop captures on e2 and now knight to c3 attacks the bishop on e2. Bishop to a6 and now knight to d5. We have rook to a1 and pawn to f6. Okay we have bishop back to e2 and bishop to e4. We have pawn to f3 and bishop to c2 although extremely ugly looking can very much be played. You will go bishop c2 bishop e3 and your position is fine but we have knight to f4 attacking the bishop king f2 and now knight captures on e2. King captures and bishop to d5 and now it's just three pawns each. Bishops of opposite color. What could possibly go wrong? But we have bishop captures on f6. Sorry rook to f7 attacking the bishop. We have pawn to g5 and now rook to b7. So Vincent is now down a pawn but we know that doesn't mean all that much when it's bishops of opposite color. However Vincent is down to 30 seconds on the clock and it will remain like playing exclusively on increment until he reaches move 40. We are currently on move 34. So rook to a5 attacks the bishop. We have bishop to c6 and now rook to c5 attacks the bishop and bishop to b5 check from Vincent. We have king to f2 and pawn to a5. Vincent starts advancing his passed pawn h4. We have king to f7 and now pawn to f4 and the position is still very much playable with bishop to d7. Vincent should be able to hold and reach time control but this is move 39 and Vincent plays pawn to a4 and this is now a losing position for Vincent but only if you play the correct moves for Ding. Now I'm not going to ask you to pause the video here because well there's kind of only one move that you can play here and Ding plays it. Or rather you can play both f5 and h5. Both are fine. So pawn to f5 and you can't really capture otherwise you get two connected passed pawns. Then you move the bishop then you push g6 g7 and it's an easy win. But after f5 we have bishop to d7 now putting pressure on this pawn and now it would be a pretty big mistake to capture. The point being that if you capture yes you do have the two connected passed pawns but after rook to a5 you can go rook b4 and you have no problems here. You cannot play h5 in g3. You even have a check rook g4 check and everything is nicely defended. So Ding plays pawn to h5. This is the way to play g captures and now there is only one way for Ding to win this game. Feel free to pause the video and win the game for the former world classical champion while I give you a couple of seconds. Yes it is of course bishop to d4 because black's only defense is rook b5. To give you an example if let's say you move the bishop somewhere else bishop c3 also looks fine. You can just go rook b5 here and now you have problems. Even if you start pushing g6 King to f8 and now there's no continuation because this pawn is hanging and the rook is attacked. So bishop to d4 is the way to play and now rook b5 doesn't really do anything. So here we have bishop captures on f5. Vincent decides to sacrifice the piece because well we can even show it like rook b5. It's the most reasonable move to play. King f8 f6 and that's it. Now you trade bishop captures comes with check f7 with check f8 is guarded. There's really nothing to even calculate here. So bishop captures on f5. Vincent decides to give up the bishop. Rook captures and now we have King to g6 attacks the rook. Rook to a5 puts the rook behind the passed pawn and pawn to a3. Vincent even tries to give it up for some counterplay but King f3. King not allowing it. We have rook to b4 and now bishop to e3. Rook to b3 and rook to a6 with check. King to f5 g6. We have rook to b4 and now pawn to g7. Rook g4. Vincent stops the promotion but only for a move as Ding now spots bishop to d4 and it was in this position on move 50 that Vincent Keimer resigned the game as there is nothing more to be done here. So the world the former world champion champion takes down the German Bobby Fischer. It's spectacular how Ding is improving in form. He is now almost 2740 and he is climbing back to the former glory and you resign here because there is really no move that you can make after bishop to d4. Let's say you make a move. A simple rook f6 check will force the king to the g file. Once you move the king then you can promote and that is it. King h4 and a bishop f2 check. King h3. You can play whatever you want. You can even allow black to promote the pawn into a queen because there's a check. Only move rook h4 and rook captures on h4 will be checkmate. So Ding Liren takes down Vincent Keimer. Wei Yi against Matthias Bluba on board two is a draw. Yu Yangyi versus Frederik Svane also on draw on board three and it was Xu Xiangyu who defeated Alexander Donchenko on board four and that means China wins against Germany three to one. So really spectacular stuff. The games are still being played but probably the next match we are going to see is Uzbekistan versus China. So very much looking forward to that. Still a lot of rounds to be played in the Olympiad and you know I wish the Olympiad was 20 rounds but it's only 11. What are you going to do? So I really hope you enjoyed it. We're going to check out some of the other games and then we're going to discuss all the results and the standings and whatnot but of course Uzbekistan is now the only team on 100 percent on 12 points. We'll see if they can continue pushing like this. So I really hope you enjoyed it. I would like to thank Jonathan Burke, RadarChess, Ivan Sterling, CheckmateCanvas and Derek Von Morek for your contribution to my channel. Thank you a lot. I really appreciate it. As usual you can check two of my previous videos here. Thank you for watching and I will see you soon continuing to check up on your wonderful suggestions and whatever else happens in the chess world. Thank you all. I will see you soon and have an excellent rest of your day and of course first link in the description below download Lotus Chess and improve today. Why wouldn't you? See you soon.