Russia’s Peter Svidler may have beaten Wei Yi of China in the quarterfinal but the 16-year old Yi fought a tooth-and-nail battle with multiple-time champion Svidler. The Beijing teenager drew with the seasoned Russian in the first two classical games and two rapid rounds of 25 minutes each. Then Svidler couldn’t beat Yi in the first round of 10-minute rapid. Until then, Yi had shown great resilience and quick-silver reactions. In the second round of 10-minute rapid, however, a combination of Yi's time trouble and Svidler's king raid up the e- and d-files denied the Chinese the semifinal berth