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D Gukesh vs Ding Liren World Chess Championship Highlights: Gukesh beats Ding Liren to level after three rounds

World Chess Championship 2024 Round 3: India's Grandmaster D Gukesh on Wednesday logged this first win against defending champion ...

The Times of India | Nov 27, 2024, 18:59:21 IST

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18:59 (IST), Nov, 27

Match report - D Gukesh logs first win against defending champion Ding Liren in World Chess Championship

Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh clinched his first win over defending champion Ding Liren in the World Chess Championship, outplaying him in the third round to draw level on points in Singapore on Wednesday.

The two players now have 1.5 points each. The 18-year-old Indian won in a winning position after 37 moves showcasing an exemplary opening preparation to outwit the Chinese.

18:40 (IST), Nov, 27

It feels great! Also the last two days I was happy with my play — today was even better. I feel good at the board. Today I just managed to outplay my opponent. During the game we both thought that White was doing well, which is what matters... As long as I played better than my opponent, it's good.

 

- D Gukesh after winning Round 3

18:39 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 - Ding after defeat in Round 3

06:28 (IST), Nov, 27

Match result - D Gukesh logs first win against defending champion Ding Liren in World Chess Championship, beats him in third game to draw level on points.

06:28 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: A big win for D Gukesh in 37 moves!

06:22 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: Gukesh WINS!

What a game! Gukesh bags his first classical win over Ding Liren. He wins on time!

Levels score at 1.5-1.5 after Game 3.

After 37 moves, Gukesh manages to beat Ding.

Swift moves from Gukesh in the ends and a panicked Ding is beaten on time.

06:10 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: Ding's race against time!

06:07 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: Ding under time pressure

After 30 moves, Ding now has got just over 6 minutes to make 10 moves. Advantage Gukesh!

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05:42 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: Gukesh vs Liren Move 28

05:41 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: Gukesh in winning position? Can he pull it off?

05:40 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: Gukesh edges ahead

17:22 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: Gukesh with chance to level scores

17:14 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: Gukesh with big advantage!

17:10 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: Gukesh consolidates

Ding made a positional error in 18th move and Gukesh is now looking to consolidate on that. After 20 overs, Liren has 22 minutes on the clock while Gukesh has almost an hour.

16:56 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: 19th Move - Gukesh takes pawn on D4 and he now has got to go for Liren's bishop

16:54 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: Ding gets trapped again!

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16:47 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: A twist in move 18?

16:38 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: In last few moves

16:28 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: With 16th Rh8 move, Liren in comfortable position

16:17 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: Anand in commentary

Legendary Viswanathan Anand, who is in the commentary booth for the FIDE YouTube broadcast, says: "Gukesh has been coming up with interesting stuff. But so far he has not landed a blow. But that's a perfectly normal situation for both of them. You don't expect that the first good idea you have is going to hit. But for Gukesh it it nice that he is able to keep probing here and there. But he'll have to keep on developing new ideas."

16:10 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: After 15 moves made

First 15 moves by Ding Liren and D Gukesh
1. d4 Nf6
2. Nf3 d5
3. c4 e6
4. cxd5 exd5
5. Nc3 c6
6. Qc2 g6
7. h3 Bf5
8. Qb3 Qb6
9. g4 Qxb3
10. axb3 Bc2
11. Bf4 h5
12. Rg1 hxg4
13. hxg4 Nbd7
14. Nd2 Rg8
15. g5 Nh5

15:48 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE: Ding Liren uses 35 minutes for 13th move

Ding Liren takes 35 minutes for his 13th move. He moves his knight to d7, it gives Gukesh an hour and four minutes time advantage

15:27 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 Round 3 Live: Gukesh has edge on time control

D Gukesh has forced Ding Liren into a long phase of thought. After the queen exchange, Liren jumped in with his light-square bishop to try and pressure the pawn that claimed his queen.

Having made that error, Liren has to strive to get out of the trap created by Gukesh.

Must mention now, Gukesh has spent four minutes with his moves. Ding, meanwhile, has spent nearly 48 minutes

14:53 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 Live: Time control making a difference

The World Chess championship works in a different time control this year vs last game between Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi.

This time: players have 120 minutes individually for their first 40 moves. After that there is 30 additional minutes for the remainder of the game. They also get 30 additional seconds from the 41st move.

Ding Liren on the time control: "It's quite a short time control with not so much time for thinking. Last time, second time control we both have more time to think. But this time just 30 minutes. It's like Olympiad or other important tournaments. Maybe, it will lead to more interesting games. It's maybe there to see our reaction in time trouble."

Gukesh said: "The time control is shorter than the previous world championship. Same in Toronto (at the Candidates). Something to keep in mind. It's a very nice time control."

14:35 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship LIVE: Game 3 Live stream

14:29 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 Live: Format of the Chess Championship

The World Chess Championship match consists of 14 rounds of classical chess. The first player to score 7.5 points will become the champion. If there is no winner after all 14 games, tiebreak will be required to determine the winner

14:19 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 Live: What is the prize money at stake?

At the 2024 World Chess Championship, the first player to reach 7.5 points will claim the coveted prize. The total prize money at play is $2.5 million.

Each player shall receive $200,000 for each game won. The remaining prize fund will be split equally.

If the winner is decided on a tie-break, the prize money shall be divided as follows: the winner takes home $1.3 million, the runner-up gets $1.2 million

14:15 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 Live: What Ding Liren said after Round 2

Ding Liren after the second round which ended in a draw: "In the first game I played something new in the opening and of course it requires a lot of memory. Today I also played not a common move (for me) 1.e4 and I prepared a lot," Liren said.

14:15 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 Live: What D Gukesh said after Round 2

After the second round, D Gukesh said: "Draw with black in the world championship match is always nice and it's too early, we still have a long match."

Pressure on the 18-year-old? "There is obviously some pressure for anyone playing in a World Championship; there is a lot of pressure. But I also see it as a privilege that I can represent so many people and my country," he said.

"I am just focusing on one game at a time. Hopefully, things go my way," he added.

14:13 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 Live: How the championship stands at the moment

In the first game of the World Chess Championship, Ding Liren had edged D Gukesh and the second was a draw. These are only early days in this 14-round competition which will run until the middle of December.

Game 1: Ding Liren 1.0 - 0.0 D Gukesh

Game 2: Ding Liren 0.5 - 0.5 D Gukesh

Overall score: Ding Liren 1.5 - 0.5 D Gukesh

14:12 (IST), Nov, 27

World Chess Championship 2024 Live: D Gukesh vs Ding Liren in Round 3

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the World Chess Championship 2024 in Singapore. It is reigning Ding Liren vs D Gukesh in the showdown.

Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh clinched his first win over defending champion Ding Liren in the World Chess Championship, outplaying him in the third round to draw level on points in Singapore on Wednesday.

The two players now have 1.5 points each. The 18-year-old Indian won in a winning position after 37 moves showcasing an exemplary opening preparation to outwit the Chinese.

Liren paid dearly for spending a lot of time in the first phase of the game.

By move 13th, Gukesh had a lead of one hour on the clock as the Indian had just spent four minutes to make his moves compared to Liren's one hour and six minutes.

With 40 moves to make in the first 120 allotted minutes without any increment, the complicated middle game had the desired impact on Liren and Gukesh was relentless in finding out some difficult yet perfect moves to increase the pressure.

The players followed a much less-played variation in the topical Queen's Gambit and Gukesh followed an idea played by former world champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in a rapid game against highest rated Indian Arjun Erigaisi.

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