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China’s Ding Liren struck again in opposition to Gukesh Dommaraju on Monday within the twelfth recreation of their $2.5m world championship match in Singapore, at some point after the feisty Indian teenager appeared to have taken command of a deadlocked best-of-14-games showdown with a dramatic Recreation 11 win.
The decisive outcome after 39 strikes over practically 4 hours signaled a dramatic turnaround for the 32-year-old defending champion from Zhejiang province, who had regarded visibly shaken after strolling right into a one-move blunder that price him a vital recreation lower than 24 hours earlier.
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The gamers
China’s Ding Liren is defending the world chess championship in opposition to fast-rising Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju. The most effective-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, profitable 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 profitable 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 called Gukesh D, surprised the chess institution by profitable the eight-man Candidates match in Toronto aged 17 to develop into the youngest ever challenger for the world championship, ending prime of a stacked subject 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 encompass 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 will likely 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 will likely be performed:
• A match consisting of 4 speedy 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 speedy 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 speedy 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 resolve 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 resolve 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 are usually 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 Recreation 1
Tue 26 Nov Recreation 2
Wed 27 Nov Recreation 3
Thu 28 Nov Relaxation day
Fri 29 Nov Recreation 4
Sat 30 Nov Recreation 5
Solar 1 Dec Recreation 6
Mon 2 Dec Relaxation day
Tue 3 Dec Recreation 7
Wed 4 Dec Recreation 8
Thu 5 Dec Recreation 9
Fri 6 Dec Relaxation day
Sat 7 Dec Recreation 10
Solar 8 Dec Recreation 11
Mon 9 Dec Recreation 12
Tue 10 Dec Relaxation Day
Wed 11 Dec Recreation 13
Thu 12 Dec Recreation 14
Fri 13 Dec Tiebreaks (if essential)
Sat 14 Dec Closing ceremony
All video games begin at 5pm native time, 2.30pm in India, 9am in London, 4am in New York.
Whereas Sunday’s recreation had left Gukesh with one hand on the trophy, the defeat on Monday left the devastated challenger combating again tears on the board earlier than signing his opponent’s scoresheet for the arbiter and exiting the sound-proof enjoying corridor.
“It’s perhaps the most effective recreation I’ve performed in current occasions,” Ding stated afterward. “I simply put strain on my opponent the entire recreation. I didn’t slip like final recreation.”
Enjoying with the white items, Ding opened with the English (1 c4) for the second time within the match earlier than aiming for long-term strain with g3 and Bg2. He fell behind by greater than half-hour on time earlier than making his tenth transfer, however managed to thwart black’s predominant concept and discover all the correct strikes that left Gukesh uncomfortable and with out counterplay.
Confounded by a state of middlegame zugzwang, Gukesh first cracked on his seventeenth transfer, when he exhausted 26 minutes and fell behind on time earlier than retreating his light-square bishop (17…Bg6!?). Ding blitzed out 18 d4! in response, giving rise to a transparent profitable probability for white.
After Ding capitalized on one other mistake (22…Bg5?!) with the profitable 23 Nf4, the sport appeared all however a handshake away in line with the supercomputers evaluating the strikes. However Ding nonetheless wanted to seek out them below mounting time strain, counting on extraordinary composure and calculation. The champion continued to squeeze till Gukesh lastly resigned after 3hr 54min.
“After 23 Nf4, I spotted my place was a lot, a lot better,” Ding stated. “Earlier than this, after 15 Nb5, I used to be very optimistic.”
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Ding entered the primary protection of his world championship having gone 28 classical video games and not using a win, a dreadful run of kind that noticed him drop to twenty third on this planet rankings and prompted the oddsmakers to put in him as roughly a 3-1 longshot within the best-of-14-games match.
Recreation 2 was a quiet draw, earlier than Gukesh roared again with a win in Recreation 3. The fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth video games had been every attracts, earlier than Gukesh’s shock win on Sunday took management of the match.
“Six-all is general the truthful outcome, however since I used to be main after yesterday, it’s a bit disappointing to lose this recreation,” Gukesh stated. “At the very least the rating remains to be tied and two extra video games are remaining.”
Each gamers will sit up for Tuesday’s relaxation day earlier than the match resumes on Wednesday with Gukesh marshaling the white items in Recreation 13.
Ding’s recuperative powers on the world championship stage turned well-known when he gained the title final yr in opposition to Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi, coming from behind thrice throughout the classical stage earlier than profitable the match in tiebreakers regardless of by no means having led as soon as within the three-week encounter.
The fifth-ranked Gukesh, an 18-year-old native of Chennai, is bidding to shatter the document for youngest ever undisputed world champion held by Garry Kasparov, who was 22 when he dethroned Anatoly Karpov of their 1985 rematch in Moscow.
