TATA STEEL 2024 MASTERS_ R13: WEI WITH AN EXCHANGE SACRIFICE AND SOON WINNING ATTACK DEFEAT VIDIT !!

GRANDMASTER WEI YI VS GRANDMASTER VIDIT SANTOSH

TATA STEEL MASTER TOURNAMENT 2024, ROUND 13

Chinese grandmaster Wei Yi claimed the Tata Steel Chess Tournament title for the first time in the Netherlands on Sunday,In the 13th and final regular round of the tournament earlier on Sunday, Wei beat Vidit Santosh Gujrathi from India.
Wei Yi triumphed over Vidit, using, of all things, the Colle System. Not the Zukertort, but the actual Colle in all its not-so-glorious insipidity. And yet, it worked, as did many of Wei Yi’s opening experiments in this tournament. The Colle hasn’t been even a sort-of big deal in something like 90 years, and Vidit was probably as confused by the sight of it as the participants in a philosophy class would be by seeing someone dressed like Socrates enter the seminar room. But this relic from the Great Depression (I guess they couldn’t afford good openings in those days?) proved effective, as Vidit couldn’t remember or figure out the best way to meet it. As a result, everything went as smoothly as possible for White, achieving a clear advantage by move 13 and a winning position by move 18. Black lasted until move 38, but once he was lost he stayed lost.