Singapore. After shedding a essential lead, Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh will face defending champion Ding Liren within the thirteenth sport of the World Chess Championship on Wednesday. Their intention will be to realize the lead as soon as once more. The complete world is maintaining a tally of this match as a result of the age distinction between the 2 gamers is sort of double.
An fascinating competitors is occurring between the youngest challenger, 18 12 months previous Gukesh and 32 12 months previous Liren of China. No participant has been capable of preserve his lead for lengthy. After a day’s relaxation, each the gamers will face one another once more on Wednesday. In this 14-round match, after 12 rounds the rating is the same as 6-6 and whichever participant reaches 7.5 first will grow to be the world champion. If the rating stays equal even after 14 rounds, then tiebreak will be resorted to.
Gukesh had a probability to achieve the magic variety of 7.5 after profitable the eleventh sport however he misplaced the subsequent sport. The Indian participant has to play the subsequent sport with white items. He is assured that he will undertake an aggressive angle on this necessary sport of the match being performed within the classical format. Now that the competitors has reached an thrilling flip, whichever participant stays affected person will be .
In this match, after 10 video games the rating was equal to 5-5 however after that the results of the subsequent two matches was totally different. This match had grow to be boring resulting from steady attracts however the final two matches have breathed new life into this $2.5 million prize competitors. Now that there are two rounds of play left, each gamers have a probability.
Liren carried out very poorly within the eleventh sport however he managed to make a nice comeback within the subsequent spherical. He was in a comparable scenario in his final World Championship match against Ian Nepomniachtchi. He then turned world champion by profitable within the tiebreaker. Chess consultants, together with world primary and former world champion Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura of America, imagine that now the Chinese participant has received the higher hand. He will enter the subsequent sport with extra confidence.
FIRST PUBLISHED: December 10, 2024, 13:57 IST
