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Viswanathan Anand on his bond with Gukesh: ‘He’s a fun guy, laughs a lot… we often sit and discuss chess’ | Chess News

Viswanathan Anand on his bond with Gukesh: ‘He’s a fun guy, laughs a lot… we often sit and discuss chess’ | Chess News

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Occasionally, even Viswanathan Anand gets shocked. The five-time world champion has seen all kinds of hell break loose on the chess board. But there is a certain rumbling in the air when the storm clouds start to gather over the chessboard. Thursday was not shaping up to be one of those days. That’s why Anand was at his home keeping only half an eye on game 14 of the World Chess Championship battle between Gukesh and Ding Liren when the world of chess changed in the blink of an eye. In a single move of his rook, Ding had opened the door for Gukesh to become the 18th world champion of the sport. “Sometimes history walks in when you are not expecting it to. Like on Thursday. I was kind of just sitting around, not watching the 14th World Championship game live in the end game. I was expecting it to end in a draw at some point and the match to continue in tiebreaks on the next day. I was still following the game. …

Magnus Carlsen on Game 13 draw: ‘Gukesh did his job well for a long time, but Ding survived with a combo of skill and luck’ | Chess News

Magnus Carlsen on Game 13 draw: ‘Gukesh did his job well for a long time, but Ding survived with a combo of skill and luck’ | Chess News

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World No 1 Magnus Carlsen was appreciative of both D Gukesh’s strategic thinking and Ding Liren’s ability to wriggle out of a tight situation as the World Chess Championship’s penultimate game ended in a draw to keep things level between the contenders. Gukesh had his chances in Game 13, but could not overcome a resilient Ding Liren as the penultimate game of the World Chess Championship ended in a draw on Wednesday. “He showed fighting spirit in his opening choice,” Carlsen said of Gukesh’s gameplay in his recap for Take Take Take. “After that, yeah of course he was he was trying to win but, who wouldn’t? Like he didn’t have a single moment in the game where there was any risk to his position at all so I think anybody practically would try and win in this situation.” “You know, he did his job very well for a long time, he found a nice idea in the French defense he put Ding under a lot of pressure and with a combination of skill and …

Ding Liren crumbling is most likely scenario

Ding Liren crumbling is most likely scenario

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The momentum in the 2024 World Chess Championship match swung decisively on Sunday after Gukesh defeated Ding Liren with white pieces in Game 11 to take a 6-5 lead. There are just three more games left. Under severe time trouble in Game 11, Ding Liren blundered on Move 28 when he retreated his queen to c8 (28.Qc8). That move proved to be decisive as he resigned one move later. Ding Liren’s predecessor on the world champion’s throne — Magnus Carlsen — predicted after Game 11 that the “most likely scenario was that Ding will crumble” after the defeat. “We’ll see if Ding has any fight in him. Will Ding crumble now? I think that’s most likely the most likely scenario. Whether he will put any pressure on Gukesh, whatsoever? Hard to say. Kinda doubt it. Gukesh has been very good at neutralising Ding with black pieces. Maybe Ding will put in a shift in the two white games remaining. But I am not optimistic on his behalf,” Carlsen said on Take Take Take. INTERACTIVE: Game …

16 things we learnt about Indian teen bidding to be youngest-ever world champion

16 things we learnt about Indian teen bidding to be youngest-ever world champion

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After nine games of the World Chess Championship, both Gukesh and Ding Liren are tied on 4.5 points each. After each game, both players have gone to the press conference room and sat side by side answering questions. After nine press conferences, there’s plenty we pieced together about Gukesh: his warm up routine, why he shuts his eyes on the board, how he maintains a poker face in games and what he would do if he was allowed to look at the engine just once during a game. ‘Good moves’ not numerology After Game 4, Gukesh was asked if he, like chess legend Garry Kasparov, believes in numerology. The Russian world champion has spoken about how it was fitting he became the 13th world champion since he was born on 13th of April. The idea behind the question was that the 18-year-old Gukesh is looking to become the 18th world champion. “I guess I should say I believe more in what Bobby Fischer had said (I believe in good moves). So I am just trying …

14 things we learnt about world champion from press conferences

14 things we learnt about world champion from press conferences

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The world chess championship will see its 10th game tomorrow. In the nine games so far, both Ding Liren and Gukesh have been asked all kinds of questions. Here are the best responses and what we learnt about the players from the replies: In the press conference after Game 8, both players were asked if they had to visit one tourist attraction on Sentosa Island, where the World Chess Championship 2024 match is being played, what would it be. Both players were given three options: Adventure Cove Waterpark, Universal Studios or the Aquarium. And there was a catch, they had to visit one of these together. “There’s not much of a difference (between all three). They are all for kids,” smiled Ding Liren. Ding Liren is ‘not hiding’ At the 2023 World Chess Championship in Astana against Ian Nepomniachtchi, Ding spent a lot of his time away from the board, in his private players’ lounge. Not this time. In Game 1 for example, Ding spent 245 minutes in his chair without a break. “Today, I …

Elite GMs explain why Ding Liren’s happy playing out draws

Elite GMs explain why Ding Liren’s happy playing out draws

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For the second time in eight games at the World Chess Championship, Ding Liren, the man with the crown on his head, tried to play out a draw despite having the upper hand. And Gukesh, the teenager playing in his first World Chess Championship, has been pushing for a win, even in comparatively worse positions. READ MORE: Why Gukesh’s dad and Ding Liren’s mom are most important members of their entourage at World Chess Championship One of the popular theories that explains this paradox is that if the best-of-14 games match stays level on points after 14 games, players will have to fight it out in shorter time control tiebreaks, which is a format that favours Ding Liren. It was via the tiebreaks that Ding Liren had become world champion last year. Elite players like former world champion Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura believe that Ding Liren would not mind the match heading into tiebreaks. READ MORE: 16 things we learnt about Gukesh, the Indian teen bidding to be youngest-ever world champion, from press conferences …

Gukesh stuns and impresses chess legends by rejecting draw vs Ding Liren

Gukesh stuns and impresses chess legends by rejecting draw vs Ding Liren

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The 18-year-old challenger for the world champion’s crown, Gukesh, earned the respect of chess legends like Magnus Carlsen, and the Polgar sisters with his decision to reject a draw offer and to play on in game 8 of the world chess championship against Ding Liren. On move 41, Gukesh could have played 41…Qg2 and brought the game to an end as a draw due to a threefold repetition. At that stage Gukesh was in a worse match situation than his opponent from China. Follow our liveblog of Game 10 of the World Chess Championship here: World Chess Championship Game 10 But instead of playing 41…Qg2, the Indian chose to keep the game continuing with 41…Qa2+ to reject a draw offer. This is now the second time in eight games that he has pulled out of playing for a certain draw and tried to push for a win. His attitude earned him praise from veritable chess legends. “I used to say that chess players should be somewhere between optimistic and delusional. This clearly was on the …

What Gukesh did in Game 7 opening ‘takes guts… really impressed by him’

What Gukesh did in Game 7 opening ‘takes guts… really impressed by him’

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After a battling 72-move draw between Ding Liren and Gukesh in Game 7 of the world chess championship on Tuesday, former world champion Magnus Carlsen said he was in awe of the opening ideas that Gukesh and his team found to surprise the world champion. Follow our liveblog of Game 8 of the World Chess Championship here: World Chess Championship Game 8 Game 7 was the longest match of this year’s world chess championship lasting five hours and 30 minutes. “This was a fantastic game. Really couldn’t have asked for more. Best game of the match so far. One that really thrilled everybody,” Carlsen said on the Take Take Take app. “There was a fascinating idea from Gukesh in the opening and almost entirely new concept. Then he played a really good game until a certain point. Ding started fighting back and we got a fantastic back-and-forth battle. Ding found a lot resources.” Carlsen heaped praise on the opening used by Gukesh, crediting it to his trainer Gregorz Gajewski, who’s known for his opening ideas. …

London System in chess explained after Ding Liren uses it vs Gukesh

London System in chess explained after Ding Liren uses it vs Gukesh

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The London System is a relatively new and solid opening where White opens with d4 and then moves the dark-squared bishop to f4 (Bf4). White plays d4, Nf3, Bf4 – though the order may change – followed by e3 and c3, building a balanced pawn structure. It takes its name from a tournament played in London in 1922. The London System enables White to develop its pieces smoothly and castle early, though it is not an aggressive move for control of the centre at the early stage of the game. It can be deployed against a variety of Black defences. Black’s response determines how the game develops then on. Those following the 2024 World Chess Championship would spot that this was the opening used in Game 6 by China’s Ding Liren , playing White, against India’s D Gukesh. Here are the first few moves of that game.1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 d5 3) e3 e6 4) Nf3 c5 Game 6 of the World Chess Championship saw the London System making an appearance. (Courtesy: Lichess) Ding …

Gukesh has ‘generally not impressed me’ so far

Gukesh has ‘generally not impressed me’ so far

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Former world champion Magnus Carlsen has said that Gukesh, who at the age of 18 is bidding to become the youngest ever world champion, has not impressed him so far over the course of five games at the ongoing World Chess Championship against the reigning world champion Ding Liren. “Gukesh has generally not impressed me so far. Ding has probably done a little bit better than we had thought. Well, we didn’t expect much (before the start of the world chess championship). But Gukesh has probably been a little bit worse,” said Magnus Carlsen in a recap video on the Take Take Take app. After five games, the score in the best-of-14 World Chess Championship match stands level with both players having 2.5 points each after winning one game apiece and drawing the remaining three. Gukesh, though, has had the chance to play in three games so far with the white pieces. Game 5 ended in a draw despite Gukesh blundering on move 25, which saw Ding Liren have the chance to attack. But Ding …