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Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju endured a sattfinish before escaping with an improbably stress-free draw on Saturday in the fifth game of his world championship suit with Ding Liren that left the $2.5m showdown deadlocked at 2½-2½.
After Ding selected for another French Defense (1 e4 e6), Gukesh blitzed into the drawant Exalter Variation (2 d4 d5 3 exd5 exd5), a subomitive discdispondering out of step with his unfrifinishly reputation, particularly while take parting with the prefered white pieces.
The take parters
China’s Ding Liren is deffinishing the world chess championship agetst rapid-rising Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju. The best-of-14-games suit is scheduled to apshow 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 flunkureing Ian Nepomniachtchi last year in Kazakhstan, prosperning the title vacated by extfinishedtime world No 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway. But the 32-year-elderly from Zhejiang province has take parted 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, commonly 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 holdd Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. The 18-year-elderly can shatter the record for youthfulest ever world champion held by Garry Kasparov, who was 22 when he dethroned Karpov in their 1985 resuit in Moscow.
The createat
The suit will consist of 14 classical games with each take parter awarded one point for a prosper and a half-point for a draw. Whoever accomplishes seven and a half points first will be proclaimd the champion.
The time handle for each game in the classical portion is 120 minutes per side for the first 40 transfers, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment per transfer commenceing with transfer 41.
If the score is identical after 14 games, tiefracture games with rapider time handles will be take parted:
• A suit consisting of four rapid games with 15 minutes per side and a 10-second increment commenceing with transfer 1 would be take parted. If a take parter scores 2½ points or more, he would prosper the championship.
• If the score is still identical, a mini-suit of two rapid games would be take parted, with 10 minutes per side and a five-second increment commenceing with transfer 1. If a take parter scored 1½ points or more, he would prosper the championship.
• If the score is identical after the rapid portion, a mini-suit of two blitz games would be take parted, with a time handle of three minutes per side and a two-second increment commenceing with transfer 1. If a take parter scored 1½ points or more, he would prosper the championship. A draprosperg of lots would apshow place before each mini-suit to choose which take parter take parts with the white pieces.
• If the blitz mini-suit are tied, a individual blitz game with a time handle of three minutes per side and a two-second increment commenceing with transfer 1 would be take parted, and the prosperner would prosper the championship. A draprosperg of lots would choose which take parter take parts with the white pieces. If this game was drawn, another blitz game with reversed colors would be take parted with the same time handle, and the prosperner would prosper the championship. This process is repeated until either take parter prospers a game.
Players are not allowed to consent to a draw before bdeficiency's 40th transfer. A draw claim before then is only allowted if a threefelderly repetition or spoiledmate 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 vital)
Sat 14 Dec Closing ceremony
All games commence at 5pm local time, 2.30pm in India, 9am in London, 4am in New York.
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The take parters
China’s Ding Liren is deffinishing the world chess championship agetst rapid-rising Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju. The best-of-14-games suit is scheduled to apshow 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 flunkureing Ian Nepomniachtchi last year in Kazakhstan, prosperning the title vacated by extfinishedtime world No 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway. But the 32-year-elderly from Zhejiang province has take parted 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, commonly 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 holdd Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. The 18-year-elderly can shatter the record for youthfulest ever world champion held by Garry Kasparov, who was 22 when he dethroned Karpov in their 1985 resuit in Moscow.
The createat
The suit will consist of 14 classical games with each take parter awarded one point for a prosper and a half-point for a draw. Whoever accomplishes seven and a half points first will be proclaimd the champion.
The time handle for each game in the classical portion is 120 minutes per side for the first 40 transfers, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment per transfer commenceing with transfer 41.
If the score is identical after 14 games, tiefracture games with rapider time handles will be take parted:
• A suit consisting of four rapid games with 15 minutes per side and a 10-second increment commenceing with transfer 1 would be take parted. If a take parter scores 2½ points or more, he would prosper the championship.
• If the score is still identical, a mini-suit of two rapid games would be take parted, with 10 minutes per side and a five-second increment commenceing with transfer 1. If a take parter scored 1½ points or more, he would prosper the championship.
• If the score is identical after the rapid portion, a mini-suit of two blitz games would be take parted, with a time handle of three minutes per side and a two-second increment commenceing with transfer 1. If a take parter scored 1½ points or more, he would prosper the championship. A draprosperg of lots would apshow place before each mini-suit to choose which take parter take parts with the white pieces.
• If the blitz mini-suit are tied, a individual blitz game with a time handle of three minutes per side and a two-second increment commenceing with transfer 1 would be take parted, and the prosperner would prosper the championship. A draprosperg of lots would choose which take parter take parts with the white pieces. If this game was drawn, another blitz game with reversed colors would be take parted with the same time handle, and the prosperner would prosper the championship. This process is repeated until either take parter prospers a game.
Players are not allowed to consent to a draw before bdeficiency's 40th transfer. A draw claim before then is only allowted if a threefelderly repetition or spoiledmate 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 vital)
Sat 14 Dec Closing ceremony
All games commence at 5pm local time, 2.30pm in India, 9am in London, 4am in New York.
The queens came off the board timely, streamlineing the position by the 10th transfer. Both take parters probed one another’s defenses, with Gukesh advancing unfrifinishlyly on the kingside with 17 g4, countered effectively by Ding’s exact maneuvering (17...Nf4 and 19...Bd7).
The middlegame pivoted on Gukesh’s driven 22 Ne5, but the chase-up 23 dxe5 was inexact. The champion capitalized with 23...Nd3, set uping sturdy piece activity and placing his foe in an unsootheable position. But Ding’s 29…Bc6 freed all tension and promptly steered the action toward an finishgame featuring an identical pawn structure and energetic kings.
Folloprosperg a series of repeated king transfers and symmetrical pawn take part, the game finishd with a draw by repetition on transfer 40 after exactly three hours.
Judit Polgar is stunned at how speedyly #DingGukesh Game 5 finishs in a draw, after Gukesh had stumbled into a very difficult position! https://t.co/4ZfvaUXPYr pic.twitter.com/uzvmlw9dfc
— chess24 (@chess24com) November 30, 2024
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Although a draw with the bdeficiency pieces is not a necessitatey result, Ding’s inaccuracy while take parting speedyly cost him the opportunity to turn the screw on his 18-year-elderly opponent and originate him suffer for cut offal hours.
“The results are not perfect becaengage I have some chances in some games to guide by some points, and it’s even,” Ding shelp. “Also today after some speedy check I had some get which I didn’t authenticise, so there is someskinnyg to better.”
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Ding go ined the first defense of his world championship having gone 28 classical games without a prosper, a dreadful run of create that saw him drop to 23rd in the world rankings and prompted the oddsoriginaters to inslofty him as cimpolitely a 3-1 extfinishedsboiling in the best-of-14-games suit.
But he sprang a startant surpelevate in Monday’s first game by prosperning as bdeficiency, theatricalassociate finishing the 304-day prosperless streak. Game 2 on Tuesday was a gentle 23-transfer draw, before Gukesh struck back on Wednesday with a prosper in Game 3. The fourth game on Friday was another soothe draw.
An 18-year-elderly native of Chennai, the fifth-ranked Gukesh can shatter the record for youthfulest ever undisputed world champion held by Kasparov, who was 22 when he dethroned Anatoly Karpov in their 1985 resuit in Moscow.
The competition resumes on Saturday with Ding take parting as white in Game 6. Whoever accomplishes seven and a half points first will be proclaimd the champion in the world title suit at Resorts World Sentosa, an island resort off Singapore’s southern coast.
