A Queen's Gambit Exchange with a 260-point rating gap — Wei, Yi playing the position everyone says is a squeeze for White. What follows is anything but a squeeze.
- — 9.g4! Wei, Yi rips the kingside open with pawns while the king is still in the center. This is not textbook positional chess — this is a declaration of war.
- — The opponent castles long, and now we have opposite-side ambitions crammed onto the same board. Both clocks are already bleeding — this game is going to hurt somebody.
- — 22.fxg6 lights the fuse. Pawns are flying off on both wings, and Wei, Yi is down under two minutes while the h-pawn starts its ominous march the other way.
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