- 5.5 / 8
- Points from games
- +4 =3 −1
- Wins, draws, losses
- 2, 3
- Boards played
- 2397
- Average opponent
How Peng Li Min played the olympiad
At 2568, Peng Li Min was the highest-rated player in the Swiss team and played eight rounds on boards 2 and 3. Five and a half out of eight against opponents averaging 2397 is the second best result in the team.
Four wins: round 1 against Wilfried Ntamatungiro with a king attack in 29 moves and the quiet 21.Qh3, round 2 against Muhamet Asllani in a technically clean ending, round 5 against Rishi Vijayakumar and round 8 against Almas Rakhmatullaev with Black. Added to that three draws against grandmasters: Mahammad Muradli at 2653, Isik Can and Alexandr Predke, the last of them an opposite-coloured bishop ending that could no longer be won.
The only loss came in round 10 against Rijad Burovic. 15...f6 opened the diagonal, after which eleven minutes went on 20...Bb4 and twenty-one minutes on 23...Kh7. That time was missing later.
All 8 games, annotated
Every game leads to its analysis, with board, variations and commentary.
- Round 1against Wilfried NtamatungiroA king attack in 29 moves, decided by the quiet 21.Qh3.1-0
- Round 2against FM Muhamet AsllaniA quiet Alapin, an exchange at the right moment, and a technically clean ending.1-0
- Round 3against GM Mahammad MuradliThe Poisoned Pawn against 2653: a trap sidestepped and the only move 33.Kh1.½-½
- Round 5against FM Rishi VijayakumarA Scotch: one knight move takes the queen off, and the right bishop lands on d5.1-0
- Round 6against GM Isik CanA Four Knights: a queen trade declined, a pawn and a half down, and 27...Qe2, the only move that holds.½-½
- Round 8against IM Almas RakhmatullaevTwo Knights, Polerio: thirty moves of third-of-a-pawn manoeuvring, then 32.Rxf6 with one minute twenty-three left, and a move-forty rook that walks itself to the end of the a-file.0-1
- Round 9against GM Alexandr PredkeA slow Italian: the freeing 13...d5, twenty-eight minutes for 20...c5, and an opposite-coloured bishop ending that could no longer be won.½-½
- Round 10against IM Rijad BurovicAn Italian with 4.d3: 15...f6 opens the diagonal, eleven minutes for 20...Bb4 and twenty-one minutes for 23...Kh7.1-0