D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: Liren Starts Finale With Win As Gukesh Resigns In Opener – News18

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: Gukesh resigns!

Ding Liren starts the finals with a win!

The Chinese champion, who looked to be in deep trouble early in the game, found his way back before bombarding Gukesh following a queen exchange.

Liren turned the tables to pile pressure on Gukesh, before the teenage Indian resigned the first game of the championships battle.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: Time crunch for Gukesh!

32 moves down and Gukesh finds himself in a position of vulnerability as he needs to make his next seven moves with just 45 seconds on the clock.

It seemed as through the Indian GM was pulling the strings to the game up until the 22nd move, before the Champion came back in roaring fashion to turn the game on its head.

And now, it is the Indian who finds himself with his back up against the wall and needs to produce something special to halt the barrage he is being put under and find his stead.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: Gukesh under pressure!

29 moves done in this opener and Liren has the position of superiority.

The Chinese GM, who is yet to leave his seat at the table since the beginning of the game nearly three hours ago, is on top at the moment and Gukesh, who enjoyed a strong opening to the game, finds himself in a world of pressure on the board and on the clock.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: Turntables!

In a swift fell whoop, Liren seems to have turned the game on its head as the Chinese champion has clawed his way back into the game and seems to have the upper hand now.

He offered up his queen in an exchange on his 21st move in a calculated risk, which seems to have paid off with the 32-year-old now in a position of superiority in the first game against the Indian GM.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: The board after 20 moves.

This is how the board looks after 20 moves each.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: 18 Moves Down!

At the end of 18 moves, it seems like Gukesh holds the edge in the opening game of the World Championship against holder Liren, who is nearly 20 minutes behind on the clock.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: Gukesh taking his time!

Ding, who was nearly an hour behind had a helping hand from Gukesh, who deliberated around 20 minutes to chomp down on the advantage on the clock.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: Ding behind on the clock!

14 moves up for Gukesh as he sits in a position of dominance on the board against the Chinese opponent, who also has a ticking clock on his mind.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: Ding behind on the clock!

10 moves each down in the opening game of the title bout, and holder Liren seems to have his task cut out here as he lags 40 minutes behind.

Gukesh will look to use time to his advantage considering the pressure the champions is under.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: Both on Even Ground as Ding Liren Produces French Defense to Open

Champion Ding Liren starts off with a classic French defence as both competitors play it safe for their openings.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: First Move For Gukesh Made By Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind Technologies, makes the first move for Gukesh. Hassabis was handed a Nobel Prize this year for his work with proteins.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: And We Begin!

The players shake hands and the first match is underway!

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: The Stage is Set!

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: How To Live Stream World Chess Championship Matches?

The 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship will be streamed live on the YouTube and Twitch channels of FIDE and Chess.com. There is no official telecast of the event on television in India.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: Format For The World Chess Championship

The match is scheduled for 14 classical games. The winner will be the first to score 7.5 points or more. Each game will feature a time control of 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment kicking in on move 41.

If the match ends in a tie after 14 games, a rapid-play tie-break will determine the champion.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: Where is World Chess Championship being held?

The 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship is being held at the Equarius Hotel in Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: When Will World Chess Championship matches start?

All the 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship matches between D Gukesh and Ding Liren will begin at 2:30 pm IST.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: Magnus Carlsen Believes Liren ‘Lacks Confidence’

“I think what happened with Ding (Liren) is that he has not completely recovered from that World Championship yet. You could argue that maybe the only thing that could make him recover completely is to win this one,” Magnus Carlsen said on the newly launched Take Take Take app.

“You can sense when Ding plays that he is lacking confidence. He’s apprehensive in his play…He’s still finding it hard to make the decisions he needs to make when the chips are down and tends to really gravitate towards the safer choices. Often those can be very dangerous to make.”

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: How Gukesh Qualified For the World Chess Championship

Liren’s challenger D Gukesh won the Candidates tournament in April to become the youngest challenger to the world title at the age of 17. He turned 18 in May.

Should the teenager prevail, it would make him the first Indian after the great Viswanathan Anand to claim the title.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: How Ding Liren Became World Champion Earlier

Liren won the world crown in May last year after defeating Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. He took a break from the game after that, owing to his battle with depression.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: Magnus Carlsen in Awe of Gukesh’s Classical Abilities

“It’s weird to have someone who is so unbelievably much better at classical than he is (at faster formats),” Magnus Carlsen stated in a recent interview on his app ‘Take Take Take’.

“When I talk to Gukesh after games, he’s considered stuff that I didn’t even think about! Like, ‘how did he have time for this?’ I think he just calculates non stop. In classical chess, it works out quite well. But then you see in some games he just makes very strange positional decisions because he doesn’t have the same filter,” added Magnus Carlsen, who was in awe of the Indian GM.

D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Updates: The Showdown Begins

Hello everyone! Welcome to our live coverage of the Chess World Championship final that pits India’s Grandmaster D Gukesh against the reigning champions Ding Liren of China.