Gukesh Dommaraju ranges World Chess Championship as Ding Liren loses on time in Sport 3 | World Chess Championship 2024

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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 very best-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 turned China’s first males’s world chess champion by defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi final 12 months 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 18 months since profitable the world title whereas battling private difficulties together with melancholy and can go off as an underdog in his first world title protection.

Gukesh, generally often known as Gukesh D, shocked the chess institution by profitable the eight-man Candidates event in Toronto aged 17 to grow 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 report 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 sport within the classical portion is 120 minutes per aspect 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 quicker time controls will likely be performed:

• A match consisting of 4 fast video games with quarter-hour per aspect 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 aspect 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 aspect 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 heaps 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 aspect and a two-second increment beginning with transfer 1 could be performed, and the winner would win the championship. A drawing of heaps would resolve which participant performs with the white items. If this sport was drawn, one other blitz sport 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 sport.

Gamers usually are not allowed to comply with a draw earlier than black’s fortieth transfer. A draw declare earlier than then is simply 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.