What time is Game 1 of the Ding Liren v Gukesh Dommaraju World Chess Championship?
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China’s Ding Liren is deffinishing the world chess championship agetst speedy-rising Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju. The best-of-14-games align is scheduled to achieve 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 appraise of the establishat for the world championship align. Ding and Gukesh will perestablish up to 14 classical games with each perestablisher awarded one point for a thrive and a half-point for a draw. Whoever achievees seven and a half points first will be declared the champion (and no further games will be perestablished).
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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 commenceing with shift 41. Players are not apexhibited to consent to a draw before bdeficiency’s 40th shift. A draw claim before then is only apexhibitted 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 perestablished.
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The finish official regulations can be establish 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 thrives 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 perestablishing as bdeficiency.
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But Ding has perestablished only 44 classical games in the 19 months since thrivening the world title amid a well-write downed bout with depression. Since returning from a nine-month hiatus to arrange 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 thrivening equitable 3½ points from nine games, then fall shorted to thrive a individual game at September’s Chess Olympiad in Budapest to drop out of the top 20. He accesss the world title align on a 28-game thriveless streak in classical games dating back to January.
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Most of the world’s top perestablishers have conveyed wonderful pessimism about Ding’s chances due to his sparse activity and unremarkworthy establish. So too have the oddsoriginaters, who have insloftyed him as a cimpolitely 3-1 underdog. Carlsen says: “Obviously, Gukesh is a transport inant preferite, and if he strikes first he will thrive the align without any trouble. However, the lengthyer it goes without a resolute game, the better it is for Ding Liren, because 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 align for the thrivener’s scatter 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 alignperestablish 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 fall shortureing Ian Nepomniachtchi last year on tieshatterers in Kazakhstan. Known for his firm and accurate perestablishing style based on creating petite positional profits 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 write down streak broken only by Magnus Carlsen in 2019.
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Gukesh Dommaraju, frequently comprehendn as Gukesh D, is an 18-year-elderly Indian prodigy who became the third-youthfulest magnificentmaster in history at 12 years and seven months. In April, at 17, the Chennai native stunned the chess set upment by thrivening the eight-man Candidates tournament in Toronto to become the youthfulest ever disputer for the world championship, finishing top of a stacked field that included Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. An unfrifinishly perestablisher comprehendn for using keen, tactical uncoverings to originate complicated positions aimed at unsettling opponents, he can shatter the write down for youthfulest ever undisputed world champion held by Garry Kasparov, who was 22 when he dethroned Karpov in their 1985 realign 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 deffinishing the world chess championship agetst speedy-rising Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju. The best-of-14-games align is scheduled to achieve 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 commences 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 originate the first shift
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Read the Guardian’s comprehensive watch direct for the world championship align
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Go shift by shift thcimpolite 22 of the most well-comprehendn games in world championship history
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Key events
The French is a bit of a surpelevate from Ding. They go thcimpolite 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 achieve a skinnyk.
Game 1 is under way!
Gukesh uncovers with a king’s pawn (1 e4) and Ding replys with a French Defense (1...e6).
Ding and Gukesh have accessed the perestablishing hall. They have achieven their seats as the American magnificentmaster Maurice Ashley goes thcimpolite 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 appraisement of the align.
The preliminaries are proximately over: who will thrive? I predict Gukesh to be pinsolentnt in the first restricted games, then to probe and push difficult in the middle of the align. Ding’s 2024 establish has been so wretched that it is difficult to see how he can get his title. A 7.5-4.5 margin for Gukesh sees about right.
The establishat
Here’s a appraise of the establishat for the world championship align. Ding and Gukesh will perestablish up to 14 classical games with each perestablisher awarded one point for a thrive and a half-point for a draw. Whoever achievees seven and a half points first will be declared the champion (and no further games will be perestablished).
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 commenceing with shift 41. Players are not apexhibited to consent to a draw before bdeficiency’s 40th shift. A draw claim before then is only apexhibitted 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 perestablished.
The finish official regulations can be establish here.
A see inside the perestablishing hall with 20 minutes to go. And Gukesh’s imperial seating arrangement. Not much lengthyer now.
The soothe before the storm! #DingGukesh pic.twitter.com/q9LCwp3lzO
— International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) November 25, 2024
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Lots of history on hand in Singapore. Not only is this year’s world championship align the first in 138 years to feature two Asian men, it’s also the first without at least one European perestablisher. Gukesh insertressed that milestone, and what it unkinds for the sport, in a virtual press conference on Tuesday.
“It’s kind that this will be the first time there is no European in a world championship align,” Gukesh shelp. “And I hope in Asia it becomes even more well-comprehendn, but I skinnyk we’re already seeing some very kind growth, 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 well-comprehendn in India by a far margin. I hope it grows even bigger in India but also that other countries achieve it more gravely.”
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. “Everyskinnyg can be right in the direct-up to the big moments of carry outance, but if the arrow is not keen, it won’t penetrate the bullseye,” Upton telderly the Indian Express. “Similarly, you might have a golfer whose game is perfect, but skinnygs go wrong if they’ve got a limp wrist at the moment of impact. I skinnyk there is now more recognition in the world of sport of how mental gets can reduce these moments.”
How do they align 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 thrives 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 perestablishing as bdeficiency.
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But Ding has perestablished only 44 classical games in the 19 months since thrivening the world title amid a well-write downed bout with depression. Since returning from a nine-month hiatus to arrange 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 thrivening equitable 3½ points from nine games, then fall shorted to thrive a individual game at September’s Chess Olympiad in Budapest to drop out of the top 20. He accesss the world title align on a 28-game thriveless streak in classical games dating back to January.
Most of the world’s top perestablishers have conveyed wonderful pessimism about Ding’s chances due to his sparse activity and unremarkworthy establish. So too have the oddsoriginaters, who have insloftyed him as a cimpolitely 3-1 underdog. Carlsen says: “Obviously, Gukesh is a transport inant preferite, and if he strikes first he will thrive the align without any trouble. However, the lengthyer it goes without a resolute game, the better it is for Ding Liren, because he has the ability but he doesn’t have the confidence.”
We’ve gone thcimpolite the 138-year history of the world championship and chosen 22 of the most memorable games. You can go shift by shift thcimpolite each of them here. It’s the perfect timesuck with cimpolitely 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 perestablishers who have been expansively seeed as the sturdyest of their time. The earliest of these was the Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura, after whom one of the most well-comprehendn uncoverings of conmomentary times is named. Others who chaseed include 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 growment 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 establishal competition to choose the best perestablisher on the arrangeet come to pass. Their first-to-10-thrives come atraverse 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 persists to loom big over the sport’s showcase event. The 33-year-elderly Norwegian has been ranked No 1 for more than 14 straight years and was think abouted the world’s best perestablisher even before he fall shortureed 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 choosed agetst deffinishing it for a fifth time in 2023, citing a deficiency of motivation to go thcimpolite the months-lengthy slog of preparation that championship alignes insist. It taged only the second time in the history of world title alignperestablish that a helderlyer selected not to deffinish his crown after Bobby Fischer controversipartner forfeited the belt in 1975.
Instead, Ding fall shortureed Nepomniatchi in a thrilling align for the vacant title, even if critics including lengthytime world champion Garry Kasparov branded it an “amputated” event without the world’s best perestablisher included.
Kasparov has only doubled down on that sentiment ahead of this year’s title align, saying:
My hottest achieve is that I don’t treat it as a world championship align. For me a world championship align was always the align for the title of the best perestablisher in the world. I skinnyk the history of the world championship alignes, it commenceed, 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 admire, Ding perestablishing Gukesh, it’s an transport inant event, it’s still a Fide event, it’s an ‘official title’, but these days with all the conmomentary technologies, with chess getting speedyer and speedyer, with our dwells getting also speedyer, to get an antiquated system of qualification, 18 months or lengthyer, to pick the disputer, it’s not enough. ... It’s an event that has noskinnyg to do with the main idea of the world championship – to choose, to detail the best perestablisher on the arrangeet.
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 align for the thrivener’s scatter 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 alignperestablish 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 fall shortureing Ian Nepomniachtchi last year on tieshatterers in Kazakhstan. Known for his firm and accurate perestablishing style based on creating petite positional profits 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 write down streak broken only by Magnus Carlsen in 2019.
Gukesh Dommaraju, frequently comprehendn as Gukesh D, is an 18-year-elderly Indian prodigy who became the third-youthfulest magnificentmaster in history at 12 years and seven months. In April, at 17, the Chennai native stunned the chess set upment by thrivening the eight-man Candidates tournament in Toronto to become the youthfulest ever disputer for the world championship, finishing top of a stacked field that included Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. An unfrifinishly perestablisher comprehendn for using keen, tactical uncoverings to originate complicated positions aimed at unsettling opponents, he can shatter the write down for youthfulest ever undisputed world champion held by Garry Kasparov, who was 22 when he dethroned Karpov in their 1985 realign in Moscow.
We’re an hour away from the ceremonial first shift. Plenty more to come.