In the final of the World Chess Championship on Thursday, the match between De Gukesh and China's Ding Liren ended in a King Vs King draw. This was the 9th round match. In the match played on Thursday night, both players agreed on a draw after 54 moves.
32-year-old Chinese Grandmaster Liren won the first match while 18-year-old Indian Grandmaster Gukesh won the third match. The second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth games were drawn. This is the sixth consecutive game and seventh overall of the match, in which both players shared points. After this draw both players have equal 4.5 points. That is three points short of the 7.5 points required to win the championship.
Friday is a break day after which both players will resume competition on Saturday. Only 5 matches are left in the championship with a prize money of 25 lakh dollars. If the score remains tied after 14 rounds, the match will be played under 'faster time control' to decide the winner.
What is King Vs King Draw? When only both players' kings remain on the chess board during a chess match, it is called a king vs king draw. In such a situation there is no chance of winning for either player.
Gukesh made the Catalan opening, Liren looked under time pressure Gukesh played the Catalan opening with White Peace. Here too Liren took a long time to deal with the opening. Gukesh took 15 minutes in the first 14 moves. While Liren took 50 minutes. In the middle game, Gukesh had a chance to pressure Liren in the 20th move, but Liren didn't let Gukesh take advantage of the excellent moves.
At one point Liren was behind after 30 minutes, but despite the time pressure, he made the right move and leveled the match. Meanwhile, Gukesh made good use of his extra time. In the 23rd move he fell behind Liren in terms of time. After the 24th move it was decided that the game would be a draw and that was what happened in the end.
Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh is thinking about his next move.
Gukesh finally began to lag behind After the 41st move Leeren got the advantage and De Gukes started to fall behind. After a short pause, on the 54th move the chess board became King Vs King and both players agreed to a draw.
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