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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 perfect-of-14-games match is scheduled to happen from 23 November to fifteen December at Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore for an total prize fund of $2.5m (£1.98m).
Ding grew to become 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 referred to as Gukesh D, surprised the chess institution by successful the eight-man Candidates match in Toronto aged 17 to turn out to be the youngest ever challenger for the world championship, ending high 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 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 might be declared the champion.
The time management for every sport 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 might be performed:
• A match consisting of 4 speedy video games with quarter-hour per facet and a 10-second increment beginning with transfer 1 can be performed. If a participant scores 2½ factors or extra, he would win the championship.
• If the rating continues to be equal, a mini-match of two speedy video games can 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 can 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 sport with a time management of three minutes per facet and a two-second increment beginning with transfer 1 can be performed, and the winner would win the championship. A drawing of tons would resolve which participant performs with the white items. If this sport was drawn, one other blitz sport with reversed colours can be performed with the identical time management, and the winner would win the championship. This course of is repeated till both participant wins a sport.
Gamers should 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 (Gukesh–Ding, 0-1)
Tue 26 Nov Sport 2 (Ding-Gukesh, ½-½)
Wed 27 Nov Sport 3 (Gukesh-Ding, 1-0)
Thu 28 Nov Relaxation day
Fri 29 Nov Sport 4 (Ding-Gukesh, ½-½)
Sat 30 Nov Sport 5 (Gukesh-Ding, ½-½)
Solar 1 Dec Sport 6 (Ding-Gukesh, ½-½)
Mon 2 Dec Relaxation day
Tue 3 Dec Sport 7 (Gukesh-Ding, ½-½)
Wed 4 Dec Sport 8 (Ding-Gukesh, ½-½)
Thu 5 Dec Sport 9 (Gukesh-Ding, ½-½)
Fri 6 Dec Relaxation day
Sat 7 Dec Sport 10 (Ding-Gukesh, ½-½)
Solar 8 Dec Sport 11 (Gukesh-Ding, 1-0)
Mon 9 Dec Sport 12 (Ding-Gukesh, 1-0)
Tue 10 Dec Relaxation Day
Wed 11 Dec Sport 13 (Gukesh-Ding, ½-½)
Thu 12 Dec Sport 14 (Ding-Gukesh, 0-1)
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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