It's worth reminding ourselves too that the guys playing this game are pretty much unknown outside China. The same applies to the overall Championship winner, Ding Liren who, at 19, remains 'unknown' - unknown except for winning the Chinese Championship in 2009, that is, presumably when 17 😲
The country has a quite small chess-playing community. But their elite development methods must be astonishing to produce such young high quality players. That said, we don't hear much about Chinese players once they reach 28+
Originally posted by watchyourbackrank great game! while the queen sac was beautiful it was not completely neccessary,was it? i believe Rxf7 removing the defence of g6 would be just as effective (obviously not as beautiful, though)
Rxf7 wins, sure, but Qg6+ is still more crushing.
Taking the queen is mate in 8, not taking the queen (Kf8) mates as well, for instance as follows:
FEN
r2n3r/pq3pk1/bp2pR2/2pPP1p1/2P1Q3/P1PB2P1/6P1/5RK1 w - - 0 25