Chess: Draws take WC semis into tie-breaks

It turned out to be another dull day for the chess buffs as Wei Yang of China and Javokhir Sindarov of Uzbekistan decided not to take risks against their respective opponents to settle for effortless draws in the second game of the semifinals at the FIDE World Cup here on Saturday.

- Press Trust of India

Wei Yi, with white pieces, tried his bit against a dignified Andrey Esipenko of Russia but no matter what he did, the impregnable Petroff had its final say in the game played under classical time control.

The fact of the matter from the perspective of the Chinese was that he tried hard to follow a normal situation but there was no way he could conquer.

In the other semifinal, it seemed more like an order of the day to draw and go into the next stage, the tiebreak.