The tough competition between Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh and China’s Ding Liren continues in the final of the World Chess Championship. Both played a draw match on Tuesday. The fourth consecutive game in the final was a draw. The second, fourth, fifth and sixth games between the two players were also draws. China’s 32-year-old Liren won the first game while 18-year-old Gukesh won the third game. During the 7th game, Gukesh, playing with white pieces, was in a strong position, but the Chinese star defended brilliantly and forced him to play a draw. After 72 moves, Gukesh was ahead by one pawn. After this draw game, both the players have equal 3.5-3.5 points. In the 14-game match, the player who scores 7.5 points first will win the match and will be called the World Champion. Gukesh was ahead in terms of time and position
During the game, Gukesh was ahead in terms of time and position. At one point it seemed that Liren would lose the game again on the basis of time. But he had to play 15 moves in 16 minutes. In the 40th move, he had only 7 seconds left to avoid defeat. At one point, even Gukesh got caught in the time pressure. He played the 56th move when only 2 seconds were left on the clock. Gukesh remained at a lead of one pawn till the end, but he could not take advantage of it. The match lasted for 5 hours and 20 minutes
The 7th match lasted for 5 hours and 20 minutes. The previous match lasted for more than four hours. This was the longest game of the final till date. 3 photos in the end… ————————————– Also read this news of World Chess Championship… The sixth match of Gukesh and Liren was tied The sixth match of the FIDE World Chess Championship final being played in Singapore between Indian Grand Master D Gukesh and World Champion Ding Liren was tied. Both have played the third consecutive draw match. Before this, the fourth and fifth matches also ended in a draw. Read the full news
