FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup

[Chris Rice]

Cheers John, in the original post I was quoting Peter Heine Nielsen and after that I quoted Suat Atalik who specifically said Aronian was Armenian so there was no need of a correction from Tim as such and your clarification was the point that was being made ie that the team selections were all a bit confusing. It was like a few good players said they would play and then makeshift teams were set up to accomodate them and the optics looked a bit strange. There were a few good games so I'm not complaining:

In the final it was China 2-2 USA with no tiebreaks and as China had the draw odds having scored more points in the preliminary bit they won the "Nations Cup". Carlsen wasn't impressed "this is a let down" but Yu did impress:

Yu, Yangyi - So, Wesley FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup 2020 round 11-Superfinal
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 d5 5. Qb3 c5 6. dxc5 Na6 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. c6 Qa5 9. Bd2 bxc6 10. g3 Nxc3 11. bxc3 Be7 12. Bg2 O-O 13. O-O e5 14. Qc2 Qc7 15. Qe4 f6 16. Qc4+ Kh8 17. Be3 Nb8 18. Rfd1 Ba6 19. Qe6 Bxe2 20. Rd2 Ba6 21. Nh4 Bc8 22. Qc4 f5 23. Nf3 h6 24. Rad1 Kh7 25. h4 Rf6 26. Ng5+ hxg5 27. hxg5 Rg6 28. Bd5 f4 29. Be4 Bxg5 30. Rd6 Bf6 31. Kg2 f3+ 32. Kxf3 Bg4+ 33. Kg2 Bxd1 34. Rxd1 1-0