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The executeers
China’s Ding Liren is deffinishing the world chess championship aacquirest speedy-rising Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju. The best-of-14-games suit is scheduled to consent place from 23 November to 15 December at Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore for an overall prize fund of $2.5m (£1.98m).
Ding became China’s first men’s world chess champion by fall shortureing Ian Nepomniachtchi last year in Kazakhstan, prosperning the title vacated by lengthytime world No 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway. But the 32-year-elderly from Zhejiang province has executeed only 44 classical games in the 19 months since prosperning the world title while battling personal difficulties including depression and will go off as an underdog in his first world title defense.
Gukesh, normally understandn as Gukesh D, stunned the chess set upment by prosperning the eight-man Candidates tournament in Toronto aged 17 to become the youthfulest ever disputer for the world championship, finishing top of a stacked field that included Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. The 18-year-elderly can shatter the enroll for youthfulest ever world champion held by Garry Kasparov, who was 22 when he dethroned Karpov in their 1985 resuit in Moscow.
The establishat
The suit will consist of 14 classical games with each executeer awarded one point for a prosper and a half-point for a draw. Whoever achievees seven and a half points first will be proclaimd the champion.
The time regulate for each game in the classical portion 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.
If the score is equivalent after 14 games, tiefracture games with speedyer time regulates will be executeed:
• A suit consisting of four rapid games with 15 minutes per side and a 10-second increment begining with shift 1 would be executeed. If a executeer 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 executeed, with 10 minutes per side and a five-second increment begining with shift 1. If a executeer 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 executeed, with a time regulate of three minutes per side and a two-second increment begining with shift 1. If a executeer scored 1½ points or more, he would prosper the championship. A draprosperg of lots would consent place before each mini-suit to choose which executeer executes with the white pieces.
• If the blitz mini-suit are tied, a one blitz game with a time regulate of three minutes per side and a two-second increment begining with shift 1 would be executeed, and the prosperner would prosper the championship. A draprosperg of lots would choose which executeer executes with the white pieces. If this game was drawn, another blitz game with reversed colors would be executeed with the same time regulate, and the prosperner would prosper the championship. This process is repeated until either executeer prospers a game.
Players are not permited to consent to a draw before bdeficiency’s 40th shift. A draw claim before then is only assistted if a threefelderly repetition or oldmate has occurred.
The schedule
Sat 23 Nov Opening ceremony and technical greeting
Sun 24 Nov Rest day
Mon 25 Nov Game 1
Tue 26 Nov Game 2
Wed 27 Nov Game 3
Thu 28 Nov Rest day
Fri 29 Nov Game 4
Sat 30 Nov Game 5
Sun 1 Dec Game 6
Mon 2 Dec Rest day
Tue 3 Dec Game 7
Wed 4 Dec Game 8
Thu 5 Dec Game 9
Fri 6 Dec Rest day
Sat 7 Dec Game 10
Sun 8 Dec Game 11
Mon 9 Dec Game 12
Tue 10 Dec Rest Day
Wed 11 Dec Game 13
Thu 12 Dec Game 14
Fri 13 Dec Tiefractures (if essential)
Sat 14 Dec Closing ceremony
All games begin at 5pm local time, 2.30pm in India, 9am in London, 4am in New York.
