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The gamers
China’s Ding Liren is defending the world chess championship towards fast-rising Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju. The perfect-of-14-games match is scheduled to happen from 23 November to fifteen December at Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore for an general prize fund of $2.5m (£1.98m).
Ding turned China’s first males’s world chess champion by defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi final yr in Kazakhstan, successful the title vacated by longtime world No 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway. However the 32-year-old from Zhejiang province has performed solely 44 classical video games within the 19 months since successful the world title whereas battling private difficulties together with despair and can go off as an underdog in his first world title protection.
Gukesh, generally often known as Gukesh D, surprised the chess institution by successful the eight-man Candidates event in Toronto aged 17 to turn out to be the youngest ever challenger for the world championship, ending prime of a stacked area that included Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. The 18-year-old can shatter the document for youngest ever world champion held by Garry Kasparov, who was 22 when he dethroned Karpov of their 1985 rematch in Moscow.
The format
The match will include 14 classical video games with every participant awarded one level for a win and a half-point for a draw. Whoever reaches seven and a half factors first can be declared the champion.
The time management for every recreation within the classical portion is 120 minutes per facet for the primary 40 strikes, then half-hour for the remainder of the sport, with a 30-second increment per transfer beginning with transfer 41.
If the rating is equal after 14 video games, tiebreak video games with sooner time controls can be performed:
• A match consisting of 4 fast video games with quarter-hour per facet and a 10-second increment beginning with transfer 1 could be performed. If a participant scores 2½ factors or extra, he would win the championship.
• If the rating remains to be equal, a mini-match of two fast video games could be performed, with 10 minutes per facet and a five-second increment beginning with transfer 1. If a participant scored 1½ factors or extra, he would win the championship.
• If the rating is equal after the fast portion, a mini-match of two blitz video games could be performed, with a time management of three minutes per facet and a two-second increment beginning with transfer 1. If a participant scored 1½ factors or extra, he would win the championship. A drawing of tons would happen earlier than every mini-match to determine which participant performs with the white items.
• If the blitz mini-match are tied, a single blitz recreation with a time management of three minutes per facet and a two-second increment beginning with transfer 1 could be performed, and the winner would win the championship. A drawing of tons would determine which participant performs with the white items. If this recreation was drawn, one other blitz recreation with reversed colours could be performed with the identical time management, and the winner would win the championship. This course of is repeated till both participant wins a recreation.
Gamers usually are not allowed to conform to a draw earlier than black’s fortieth transfer. A draw declare earlier than then is barely permitted if a threefold repetition or stalemate has occurred.
The schedule
Sat 23 Nov Opening ceremony and technical assembly
Solar 24 Nov Relaxation day
Mon 25 Nov Sport 1
Tue 26 Nov Sport 2
Wed 27 Nov Sport 3
Thu 28 Nov Relaxation day
Fri 29 Nov Sport 4
Sat 30 Nov Sport 5
Solar 1 Dec Sport 6
Mon 2 Dec Relaxation day
Tue 3 Dec Sport 7
Wed 4 Dec Sport 8
Thu 5 Dec Sport 9
Fri 6 Dec Relaxation day
Sat 7 Dec Sport 10
Solar 8 Dec Sport 11
Mon 9 Dec Sport 12
Tue 10 Dec Relaxation Day
Wed 11 Dec Sport 13
Thu 12 Dec Sport 14
Fri 13 Dec Tiebreaks (if crucial)
Sat 14 Dec Closing ceremony
All video games begin at 5pm native time, 2.30pm in India, 9am in London, 4am in New York.
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