What time is Game 1 of the Ding Liren v Gukesh Dommaraju World Chess Championship?
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China’s Ding Liren is acquireing the world chess championship aacquirest speedy-rising Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju. The best-of-14-games suit is scheduled to acquire place from 23 November to 15 December at Resorts World Sentosa for an overall prize fund of $2.5m (£1.98m).
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Here’s a evaluate of the createat for the world championship suit. Ding and Gukesh will join up to 14 classical games with each joiner awarded one point for a triumph and a half-point for a draw. Whoever achievees seven and a half points first will be proclaimd the champion (and no further games will be joined).
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The time regulate for each game is 120 minutes per side for the first 40 shifts, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment per shift begining with shift 41. Players are not apshowed to concur to a draw before bincreateage’s 40th shift. A draw claim before then is only apshowted if a threefelderly repetition or oldmate has occurred.
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If the score is equivalent after 14 games, a series of tieshatter games with speedyer time regulates will be joined.
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The finish official regulations can be set up here.
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Ding and Gukesh have met only three times in classical games due to their age separateence. Ding helderlys a 2½-½ edge in their head-to-head with two triumphs and one draw, all since January 2023. Their most recent encountering happened in January at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, where Ding won joining as bincreateage.
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But Ding has joined only 44 classical games in the 19 months since triumphning the world title amid a well-recorded bout with depression. Since returning from a nine-month hiatus to rank his mental health, Ding suffered four consecutive losses and came in dead last at the Norway Chess tournament in May, finished third from bottom at August’s Sinquefield Cup at St Louis after triumphning fair 3½ points from nine games, then fall shorted to triumph a individual game at September’s Chess Olympiad in Budapest to drop out of the top 20. He go ins the world title suit on a 28-game triumphless streak in classical games dating back to January.
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Most of the world’s top joiners have articulateed fantastic pessimism about Ding’s chances due to his sparse activity and unextrastandard create. So too have the oddsproducers, who have inshighed him as a rawly 3-1 underdog. Carlsen says: “Obviously, Gukesh is a meaningful likeite, and if he strikes first he will triumph the suit without any trouble. However, the extfinisheder it goes without a resolved game, the better it is for Ding Liren, becaengage he has the ability but he doesn’t have the confidence.”
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Hello and receive to Singapore for day one of the world chess championship. Over the next restricted weeks, China’s Ding Liren and the speedy-rising Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju will contend in a scheduled best-of-14-games suit for the triumphner’s allot of a $2.5m (£1.98m) prize fund at the Resorts World Sentosa, an island resort off Singapore’s southern coast. It’s the first time in the 138-year history of world championship suitjoin that two men from Asia will contend for the sport’s most prestigious title.
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Ding became China’s first men’s world chess champion by lossing Ian Nepomniachtchi last year on tieshatterers in Kazakhstan. Known for his firm and exact joining style based on creating petite positional acquires from hushed uncoverings, the 32-year-elderly from Zhejiang province is the highest-rated Chinese joiner of all time. A graduate of Peking University Law School, he once went unbeaten in 100 straight classical games, a sign up streak broken only by Magnus Carlsen in 2019.
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Gukesh Dommaraju, commonly understandn as Gukesh D, is an 18-year-elderly Indian prodigy who became the third-youthfulest majesticmaster in history at 12 years and seven months. In April, at 17, the Chennai native stunned the chess set upment by triumphning the eight-man Candidates tournament in Toronto to become the youthfulest ever contestr for the world championship, finishing top of a stacked field that integrated Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. An unfriendly joiner understandn for using acute, tactical uncoverings to produce complicated positions aimed at unsettling opponents, he can shatter the sign up for youthfulest ever undisputed world champion held by Garry Kasparov, who was 22 when he dethroned Karpov in their 1985 resuit in Moscow.
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We’re an hour away from the ceremonial first shift. Plenty more to come.
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China’s Ding Liren is acquireing the world chess championship aacquirest speedy-rising Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju. The best-of-14-games suit is scheduled to acquire place from 23 November to 15 December at Resorts World Sentosa for an overall prize fund of $2.5m (£1.98m).
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Game 1 begins at 5pm local time, 9am in London, 4am in New York
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Gukesh will have the white pieces for Game 1 and produce the first shift
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Read the Guardian’s comprehensive watch direct for the world championship suit
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Go shift by shift thraw 22 of the most well-understandn games in world championship history
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Key events
We have a shift! Ding goes with 7...a5. And Gukesh instantly prolongs a knight in response. The next restricted shifts: 8 Nf3 a4 9 Be3 Be7 10 g4.
A 24-minute leank (and counting) for Ding Liren on the seventh shift of this world championship suit.
“At this point I’m charitable of a little bit worried about Ding that he’s spending too much time on deciding and he’s hesitating too much at this point,” Polgar says on Chess24’s widecast. “Or does he have a little dread about what will happen in Game 1 or how he should be handling this very distinctive moment.”
Ding has been leanking for 17 minutes and counting. “It cannot be a firm game anymore,” the Hungarian majesticmaster Judit Polgár says. “The knives are out. They are combat.”
A huge decision that will prescribe the next restricted shifts looms.
Ding finpartner joins 6...Nc6 and Gukesh instantly reacts with 7 c3. Another extfinished leank for the champion.
The French is a bit of a surpascfinish from Ding. They go thraw their next shifts rapidly (2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 e5 Nfd7 5 f4 c5 6 Nce2), before Ding is the first person to stop and acquire a leank.
Game 1 is under way!
Gukesh uncovers with a king’s pawn (1 e4) and Ding reacts with a French Defense (1...e6).
Ding and Gukesh have go ined the joining hall. They have acquiren their seats as the American majesticmaster Maurice Ashley goes thraw the introductions.
Our Leonard Barden has filed his final dispatch ahead of today’s uncovering game. Barden, who’s written the Guardian’s chess column every week since September 1955, doesn’t redirect from the vague consensus in his evaluatement of the suit.
The preliminaries are proximately over: who will triumph? I foresee Gukesh to be pinsolentnt in the first restricted games, then to probe and push difficult in the middle of the suit. Ding’s 2024 create has been so wretched that it is difficult to see how he can upgrasp his title. A 7.5-4.5 margin for Gukesh sees about right.
The createat
Here’s a evaluate of the createat for the world championship suit. Ding and Gukesh will join up to 14 classical games with each joiner awarded one point for a triumph and a half-point for a draw. Whoever achievees seven and a half points first will be proclaimd the champion (and no further games will be joined).
The time regulate for each game is 120 minutes per side for the first 40 shifts, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment per shift begining with shift 41. Players are not apshowed to concur to a draw before bincreateage’s 40th shift. A draw claim before then is only apshowted if a threefelderly repetition or oldmate has occurred.
If the score is equivalent after 14 games, a series of tieshatter games with speedyer time regulates will be joined.
The finish official regulations can be set up here.
A see inside the joining hall with 20 minutes to go. And Gukesh’s imperial seating schedulement. Not much extfinisheder now.
The quiet before the storm! #DingGukesh pic.twitter.com/q9LCwp3lzO
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Lots of history on hand in Singapore. Not only is this year’s world championship suit the first in 138 years to feature two Asian men, it’s also the first without at least one European joiner. Gukesh insertressed that milestone, and what it unbenevolents for the sport, in a virtual press conference on Tuesday.
“It’s pleasant that this will be the first time there is no European in a world championship suit,” Gukesh said. “And I hope in Asia it becomes even more famous, but I leank we’re already seeing some very pleasant prolongth, not only in India. China has also been a superpower for a restricted years, and Uzbekistan is also catching up. There’s a lot of potential. Chess is most famous in India by a far margin. I hope it prolongs even hugeger in India but also that other countries acquire it more solemnly.”
Additionpartner, Gukesh has been laboring with honord mind coach Pinserty Upton, the South African guru who was part of the backroom staff for the Indian cricket team when they won the 2011 World Cup and the Indian hockey team as they claimed bronze at the Paris Olympics. “Everyleang can be right in the direct-up to the huge moments of carry outance, but if the arrow is not acute, it won’t penetrate the bullseye,” Upton telderly the Indian Express. “Similarly, you might have a golfer whose game is perfect, but leangs go wrong if they’ve got a limp wrist at the moment of impact. I leank there is now more recognition in the world of sport of how mental acquires can reduce these moments.”
How do they suit up?
Ding and Gukesh have met only three times in classical games due to their age separateence. Ding helderlys a 2½-½ edge in their head-to-head with two triumphs and one draw, all since January 2023. Their most recent encountering happened in January at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, where Ding won joining as bincreateage.
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But Ding has joined only 44 classical games in the 19 months since triumphning the world title amid a well-recorded bout with depression. Since returning from a nine-month hiatus to rank his mental health, Ding suffered four consecutive losses and came in dead last at the Norway Chess tournament in May, finished third from bottom at August’s Sinquefield Cup at St Louis after triumphning fair 3½ points from nine games, then fall shorted to triumph a individual game at September’s Chess Olympiad in Budapest to drop out of the top 20. He go ins the world title suit on a 28-game triumphless streak in classical games dating back to January.
Most of the world’s top joiners have articulateed fantastic pessimism about Ding’s chances due to his sparse activity and unextrastandard create. So too have the oddsproducers, who have inshighed him as a rawly 3-1 underdog. Carlsen says: “Obviously, Gukesh is a meaningful likeite, and if he strikes first he will triumph the suit without any trouble. However, the extfinisheder it goes without a resolved game, the better it is for Ding Liren, becaengage he has the ability but he doesn’t have the confidence.”
We’ve gone thraw the 138-year history of the world championship and chosen 22 of the most memorable games. You can go shift by shift thraw each of them here. It’s the perfect timesuck with rawly 45 minutes to go before today’s first shift.
From the middle of the 16th century, there have come down to us the names of chess joiners who have been expansively think abouted as the strongest of their time. The earliest of these was the Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura, after whom one of the most famous uncoverings of contransient times is named. Others who trailed integrate the Calabrese Gioachino Greco, François-André Danican Philidor, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Alexander McDonnell, Howard Staunton, Adolf Anderssen, Mikhail Chigorin and Paul Morphy, each of whom are lionized for their contributions to the prolongment of theory and strategy as well as their dominance over their board during their admireive eras.
But not until Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort sat down in a petite room at 80 Fifth Avenue in New York City on the afternoon of 11 January 1886 did a createal competition to resolve the best joiner on the scheduleet come to pass. Their first-to-10-triumphs encounter was held in three US cities over the next 78 days for a prize fund of $4,000. Since then, the world chess championship has provided the stage for countless unforgettable contests showcasing the precision, imagination and brilliance of the royal game at the highest level.
The credibility of Ding’s world title, of course, remains an uncover ask. The absence of Magnus Carlsen proceeds to loom huge over the sport’s showcase event. The 33-year-elderly Norwegian has been ranked No 1 for more than 14 straight years and was pondered the world’s best joiner even before he lossed Viswanathan Anand for the world championship in 2013. He reinforceed his claim as the fantasticest joiner of any era in 2021, when he crushed Nepomniachtchi in Dubai in the fourth defense of the title.
But Carlsen determined aacquirest acquireing it for a fifth time in 2023, citing a increateage of motivation to go thraw the months-extfinished slog of preparation that championship suites need. It taged only the second time in the history of world title suitjoin that a helderlyer chooseed not to acquire his crown after Bobby Fischer controversipartner forfeited the belt in 1975.
Instead, Ding lossed Nepomniatchi in a thrilling suit for the vacant title, even if critics including extfinishedtime world champion Garry Kasparov branded it an “amputated” event without the world’s best joiner joind.
Kasparov has only doubled down on that sentiment ahead of this year’s title suit, saying:
My hottest acquire is that I don’t treat it as a world championship suit. For me a world championship suit was always the suit for the title of the best joiner in the world. I leank the history of the world championship suites, it begined, by the way, here in St Louis, with Steinitz facing Zukertort back in 1886, has ended with Magnus Carlsen. There were 16 world champions, you could call them at every given moment the best joiners. It’s those who took the title by beating the best joiner. With all due admire, Ding joining Gukesh, it’s an transport inant event, it’s still a Fide event, it’s an ‘official title’, but these days with all the contransient technologies, with chess getting speedyer and speedyer, with our inhabits getting also speedyer, to upgrasp an antiquated system of qualification, 18 months or extfinisheder, to pick the contestr, it’s not ample. ... It’s an event that has noleang to do with the main idea of the world championship – to determine, to expound the best joiner on the scheduleet.
Well then!
Preamble
Hello and receive to Singapore for day one of the world chess championship. Over the next restricted weeks, China’s Ding Liren and the speedy-rising Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju will contend in a scheduled best-of-14-games suit for the triumphner’s allot of a $2.5m (£1.98m) prize fund at the Resorts World Sentosa, an island resort off Singapore’s southern coast. It’s the first time in the 138-year history of world championship suitjoin that two men from Asia will contend for the sport’s most prestigious title.
Ding became China’s first men’s world chess champion by lossing Ian Nepomniachtchi last year on tieshatterers in Kazakhstan. Known for his firm and exact joining style based on creating petite positional acquires from hushed uncoverings, the 32-year-elderly from Zhejiang province is the highest-rated Chinese joiner of all time. A graduate of Peking University Law School, he once went unbeaten in 100 straight classical games, a sign up streak broken only by Magnus Carlsen in 2019.
Gukesh Dommaraju, commonly understandn as Gukesh D, is an 18-year-elderly Indian prodigy who became the third-youthfulest majesticmaster in history at 12 years and seven months. In April, at 17, the Chennai native stunned the chess set upment by triumphning the eight-man Candidates tournament in Toronto to become the youthfulest ever contestr for the world championship, finishing top of a stacked field that integrated Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. An unfriendly joiner understandn for using acute, tactical uncoverings to produce complicated positions aimed at unsettling opponents, he can shatter the sign up for youthfulest ever undisputed world champion held by Garry Kasparov, who was 22 when he dethroned Karpov in their 1985 resuit in Moscow.
We’re an hour away from the ceremonial first shift. Plenty more to come.