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Ding Liren begins with 1.Nf3 agetst D Gukesh in the final classical game of the World Chess Championship!
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Here’s a appraise of the establishat for the world championship suit. Ding and Gukesh have perestablished 13 of 14 classical games with each perestablisher awarded one point for a prosper and a half-point for a draw. The score is tied 6½-6½, uncomardenting either perestablisher can clinch the title with a prosper in today’s game. If it results in another draw and the suit finishs in a 7-7 deadlock, a series of tieshatter games with rapider time administers will be perestablished on Friday.
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• A suit consisting of four rapid games with 15 minutes per side and a 10-second increment begining with shift 1 would be perestablished. If a perestablisher scores 2½ points or more, he would prosper the championship.
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• If the score is still equivalent, a mini-suit of two rapid games would be perestablished, with 10 minutes per side and a five-second increment begining with shift 1. If a perestablisher scored 1½ points or more, he would prosper the championship.
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• If the score is equivalent after the rapid portion, a mini-suit of two blitz games would be perestablished, with a time administer of three minutes per side and a two-second increment begining with shift 1. If a perestablisher scored 1½ points or more, he would prosper the championship. A draprosperg of lots would consent place before each mini-suit to determine which perestablisher perestablishs with the white pieces.
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• If the blitz mini-suit are tied, a individual blitz game with a time administer of three minutes per side and a two-second increment begining with shift 1 would be perestablished, and the prosperner would prosper the championship. A draprosperg of lots would determine which perestablisher perestablishs with the white pieces. If this game was drawn, another blitz game with reversed colors would be perestablished with the same time administer, and the prosperner would prosper the championship. This process is repeated until either perestablisher prospers a game.
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The end official regulations can be establish here.
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Hello and greet to Game 14 of the world chess championship. China’s Ding Liren and India’s Gukesh Dommaraju are facing off in a best-of-14-games suit for the prosperner’s dispense of a $2.5m (£1.98m) prize fund at the Equarius Hotel at Resorts World Sentosa, an island resort off Singapore’s southern coast. It’s the first time in the 138-year history of world championship suitperestablish that two men from Asia are competing 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 stable and exact perestablishing style based on creating petite positional gets from hushed uncoverings, the 32-year-elderly from Zhejiang province is the highest-rated Chinese perestablisher of all time. A graduate of Peking University Law School, he once went unbeaten in 100 straight classical games, a enroll streak broken only by Magnus Carlsen in 2019.
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Gukesh Dommaraju, normally understandn as Gukesh D, is an 18-year-elderly Indian prodigy who became the third-lesserest majesticmaster in history at 12 years and seven months. In April, at 17, the Chennai native stunned the chess set upment by prosperning the eight-man Candidates tournament in Toronto to become the lesserest ever contestr for the world championship, finishing top of a stacked field that participated Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. An unfrifinishly perestablisher understandn for using keen, tactical uncoverings to create intricate positions aimed at unsettling opponents, he can shatter the enroll for lesserest 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 a little more than a half hour from the ceremonial first shift. Plenty more to come.
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China’s Ding Liren is deffinishing the world chess championship agetst rapid-rising Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju. The best-of-14-games suit for an overall prize fund of $2.5m (£1.98m) is all square at 6½-6½ after 13 games.
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Either Ding or Gukesh can prosper the world title with a prosper in today’s 14th game. If it finishs in a draw, a series of tieshatter games with rapider time administers will be perestablished on Friday to rerepair the champion.
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Game 14 begins at 5pm local time, 9am in London, 4am in New York
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Ding will have the white pieces for Game 14 and create 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 famous games in world championship history
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Key events
A couple of pawns off the board after 44 Bb7 Kg5 45 f3 f5 46 fxg4 hxg4. Says Susan Polgar: “Gukesh has no choice but to fight on becaemploy he is up a pawn. Ding was accurate when he shelp after game 13 that there will not be a unininestablishigentinutive draw in the final game. He is a man of his words. He never promised to prosper, fair a extfinished fight.”
The grind persists: 41 Kg1 Re6 42 Rc4 g4 43 Bd5 Rd6. Ding’s body language not wonderful at the moment. He’s more than 45 minutes behind Gukesh on time.
Both perestablishers accomplish the time administer after 38 Rb4 h5 39 Ra4 Re5 40 Bf3 Kh6. That’s 30 compriseitional minutes plus a 30-second increment with each shift.
On we go. Gukesh is making his opponent toil to helderly the draw after 32…g5 33 Bd5 Bf5 34 Rc1 Kg7 35 Rc7 Bg6 36 Rc4 Rb1+ 37 Kg2 Re1. Ding has been pondering his response for about six minutes now, leaving him 12 minutes to create his next three shifts before the time administer.
And there go a pair of rooks: 31…Rxa8 32 Bxa8. As in the 13th game, Ding has give upd a pawn in swap for a modest finishgame. But with a more than 30-minute get on the clock and an extra pawn, Gukesh will create the champion toil for it. The Latvian majesticmaster Arturs Neikšāns doesn’t appreciate what he sees.
“Ding’s choices in this game are endly unrecognizable,” Neikšāns says. “Why go in an finishgame down a pawn when there were many modest ways to draw before? Very strange.”
The queens are off the board! We’re headed into the finishgame after: 27…g6 28 Qd4 Qb5 29 b4 Qxb4 30 Qxb4 Rxb4 31 Ra8. It’s not a dead-drawn position but we’re getting awbrimmingy seal.
A scant more shifts: 26 a4 bxa3 27 Rxa3. And we have en passant for the second time in two days.
“Ding got what he wanted for game 14: No danger position to push,” Susan Polgar says. “Gukesh also got what he wanted: No danger helderly then intensify on the perestablishoff.”
More material off the board after 23 Rfd1 Qb6 24 Bf3 fxg3 25 hxg3 b4. The prosper-loss-draw evaluation bar on the official widecast shows an 84.1% chance of a draw, highest of the day so far.
Ding begins the pawn swap (19 cxb5 axb5). A couple more material swaps adhere with 20 Nf4 exf4 21 Bxc6 Bxb2 22 Qxb2 Rb8. The position is seeing dradesire after the abrupt wateryation.
“Unless one of them suddenly creates a massive error, we are heading to the perestablishoff,” the establisher women’s world champion Susan Polgar says. “Gukesh did a excellent job unlocking his pieces.”
Ding shifts his knight into the cgo in with 18 Nd5. Gukesh aims for counterperestablish with 18…b5 after a 10-minute leank. White is more sootheable out of the uncovering but no prompt danger for bconciseage.
“True to his style, Gukesh perestablishs the most ambitious shift,” the English IM Jovanka Houska says on the official Fide widecast. “It’s ambitious becaemploy it aims to rerepair the tension promptly. If Ding fair reacts in a bashful way, the position will probably fizzle out into a draw. But if he picks to ascfinish to the occasion, Ding could reassociate fair hug the complications and we’re going to see a huge struggle on the board.”
Ding pushes his b-pawn (14 b3). The engines say Gukesh insists to discover a6 or the evaluation will spike further in white’s straightforwardion. And after eight minutes he discovers it! The next shifts: 14…a6 15 Nc3 Bd4 16 Bb2 e5 17 Qd2 Be6.
“In my mind Ding is now a burdensome likeite to prosper it,” Leko says on Chess24’s widecast. “Though we understand it’s the last game, nerves are in perestablish, there are chances for Gukesh to helderly it. But it will be a nightmare.”
Gukesh passes on a fight in the cgo in drops the bishop back with 13…Bb6?!. The engines don’t appreciate that shift for the contestr as the evaluation bar sprospergs in Ding’s straightforwardion.
“I’m to be genuine endly shocked by this shift,” Leko says on the Chess24 widecast. “I have seen the shift but I did not even want to allude it becaemploy I somehow felt that this is fair horrible. Now white might get a free get.”
The evaluation bar on the official stream before Bb6 had it 22.3% for a Ding prosper, 15.0% for a Gukesh prosper and 62.7% for a draw. Now? It’s reading 41.5% for a Ding prosper, 10.4% for a Gukesh prosper and 48.1% for a draw.
A pawn swap on d4 (11 exd4 Bxd4). And Ding is back in the tank. He’s already a half hour behind Gukesh on time. No surpascfinish there: most of these games have seen the champion go down on the clock in the uncovering. A scant more shifts: 12 Nc3 O-O 13 Nb5.
Ding has spent 20 minutes and counting mulling his response to 10…Bc5. Fide pdwellnt Arkady Dvorkovich has combiinsist the official widecast, giving his appraisement of the uncovering.
“I leank the uncovering choice from Ding was an foreseeed one,” Dvorkovich says. “And Gukesh readyd variations that nobody foreseeed. The structure is still more or less standards. There are fair some particular lines that contrast from standard Tarrasch variations. There’s a lot of life in this position. Of course it all depfinishs on the motivation of the perestablishers and whether Ding is ready for a huge fight today or he wants to create a protected line [for a draw and tiebreakers].”
A couple more shifts from both perestablishers: 9 Qd1 d4 10 e3 Bc5. The engines have the position as even with both perestablishers apparently out of their uncovering preparation. Bc5 is the first novel shift of the game.
Another uncovering surpascfinish from Gukesh. Ding leanks for 13 minutes before perestablishing 7 c4. Bconciseage begins a trade of knights (7…Nxd4 8 Qxd4) before menaceening white’s queen with 8…Nc6.
“It’s a surpascfinish from Gukesh, but it’s also a very hazardous one,” the Hungarian majesticmaster Peter Leko says on Chess24’s widecast. “I don’t count on bconciseage can perestablish appreciate this if he’s not super-readyd. One inaccuracy and you can finish up in a lot of trouble.”
A scant more shifts: 2…c5 3 Bg2 Nc6 4 d4. And we’re into a Reversed Grünfeld. After six shifts by each perestablisher (4…e6 5 O-O cxd4 6 Nxd4 Nge7), there are only three games in the masters database that have accomplished this position.
Game 14 is under way!
The King’s Indian Attack is on the board. Ding uncovers with 1 Nf3 before broadening the airy-square bishop with a fianchetto.
Ding Liren begins with 1.Nf3 agetst D Gukesh in the final classical game of the World Chess Championship!
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The establishat
Here’s a appraise of the establishat for the world championship suit. Ding and Gukesh have perestablished 13 of 14 classical games with each perestablisher awarded one point for a prosper and a half-point for a draw. The score is tied 6½-6½, uncomardenting either perestablisher can clinch the title with a prosper in today’s game. If it results in another draw and the suit finishs in a 7-7 deadlock, a series of tieshatter games with rapider time administers will be perestablished on Friday.
A suit consisting of four rapid games with 15 minutes per side and a 10-second increment begining with shift 1 would be perestablished. If a perestablisher scores 2½ points or more, he would prosper the championship.
If the score is still equivalent, a mini-suit of two rapid games would be perestablished, with 10 minutes per side and a five-second increment begining with shift 1. If a perestablisher scored 1½ points or more, he would prosper the championship.
If the score is equivalent after the rapid portion, a mini-suit of two blitz games would be perestablished, with a time administer of three minutes per side and a two-second increment begining with shift 1. If a perestablisher scored 1½ points or more, he would prosper the championship. A draprosperg of lots would consent place before each mini-suit to determine which perestablisher perestablishs with the white pieces.
If the blitz mini-suit are tied, a individual blitz game with a time administer of three minutes per side and a two-second increment begining with shift 1 would be perestablished, and the prosperner would prosper the championship. A draprosperg of lots would determine which perestablisher perestablishs with the white pieces. If this game was drawn, another blitz game with reversed colors would be perestablished with the same time administer, and the prosperner would prosper the championship. This process is repeated until either perestablisher prospers a game.
The end official regulations can be establish here.
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 10 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 perestablishers who have been widely 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 well-understandn uncoverings of contransient times is named. Others who adhereed participate 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 broadenment of theory and strategy as well as their dominance over their board during their esteemive 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 establishal competition to rerepair the best perestablisher on the scheduleet come to pass. Their first-to-10-prospers greet 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 supplyd 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 persists 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 perestablisher even before he lossed Viswanathan Anand for the world championship in 2013. He reinforceed his claim as the wonderfulest perestablisher of any era in 2021, when he crushed Nepomniachtchi in Dubai in the fourth defense of the title.
But Carlsen determined agetst deffinishing it for a fifth time in 2023, citing a conciseage of motivation to go thraw the months-extfinished slog of preparation that championship suites insist. It labeled only the second time in the history of world title suitperestablish that a helderlyer chooseed not to deffinish his crown after Bobby Fischer controversiassociate 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 perestablisher participated.
Kasparov only doubled down on that sentiment ahead of this year’s title suit, saying:
My hottest consent 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 perestablisher 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 finished with Magnus Carlsen. There were 16 world champions, you could call them at every given moment the best perestablishers. It’s those who took the title by beating the best perestablisher. With all due esteem, Ding perestablishing Gukesh, it’s an vital event, it’s still a Fide event, it’s an ‘official title’, but these days with all the contransient technologies, with chess getting rapider and rapider, with our dwells getting also rapider, to preserve 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 clarify the best perestablisher on the scheduleet.
Well then!
Preamble
Hello and greet to Game 14 of the world chess championship. China’s Ding Liren and India’s Gukesh Dommaraju are facing off in a best-of-14-games suit for the prosperner’s dispense of a $2.5m (£1.98m) prize fund at the Equarius Hotel at Resorts World Sentosa, an island resort off Singapore’s southern coast. It’s the first time in the 138-year history of world championship suitperestablish that two men from Asia are competing 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 stable and exact perestablishing style based on creating petite positional gets from hushed uncoverings, the 32-year-elderly from Zhejiang province is the highest-rated Chinese perestablisher of all time. A graduate of Peking University Law School, he once went unbeaten in 100 straight classical games, a enroll streak broken only by Magnus Carlsen in 2019.
Gukesh Dommaraju, normally understandn as Gukesh D, is an 18-year-elderly Indian prodigy who became the third-lesserest majesticmaster in history at 12 years and seven months. In April, at 17, the Chennai native stunned the chess set upment by prosperning the eight-man Candidates tournament in Toronto to become the lesserest ever contestr for the world championship, finishing top of a stacked field that participated Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. An unfrifinishly perestablisher understandn for using keen, tactical uncoverings to create intricate positions aimed at unsettling opponents, he can shatter the enroll for lesserest ever undisputed world champion held by Garry Kasparov, who was 22 when he dethroned Karpov in their 1985 resuit in Moscow.
We’re a little more than a half hour from the ceremonial first shift. Plenty more to come.
Everyleang you insist to understand about the Ding Liren v Gukesh Dommaraju world chess championship
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China’s Ding Liren is deffinishing the world chess championship agetst rapid-rising Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju. The best-of-14-games suit for an overall prize fund of $2.5m (£1.98m) is all square at 6½-6½ after 13 games.
Either Ding or Gukesh can prosper the world title with a prosper in today’s 14th game. If it finishs in a draw, a series of tieshatter games with rapider time administers will be perestablished on Friday to rerepair the champion.
Bryan will be here unininestablishigentinutively. In the uncomardenttime here’s a see back at Wednesday’s high-wire Game 13.
