China won the inaugural FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup on Sunday. Their Superfinal with the USA ended 2-2 with China having draw odds for winning the round-robin phase.
The Superfinal concluded six days of online competitive chess at the highest level between six international teams full of top grandmasters. Co-organized by FIDE and Chess.com, the event had a peak of over a million concurrent viewers across all languages and broadcast partners.
China's star player GM Yu Yangyi decided the match with a brilliant win against GM Wesley So, which gave his team the desired two board points as two games—GM Ding Liren vs. GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Irina Krush vs. GM Hou Yifan—had ended in draws. GM Fabiano Caruana's win against GM Wei Yi did not matter anymore.
