World Chess Championship 2024 Game 14 Live Updates, December 12: If there is no winner at the end of today, Gukesh and Ding Liren will have to fight it out in the tiebreaks tomorrow which will be played in the faster time controls.
FIDE World Chess Championship 2024, Game 14 Singapore Live Updates, Gukesh D vs Ding Liren: After three weeks of duelling each other over the battlefield of 64 squares, world champion Ding Liren and the 18-year-old challenger could see their fate decided today in Singapore when they play in Game 14 of the World Chess Championship. Ding Liren has the white pieces in the final classical game today.
Coming into Thursday’s game deadlocked on 6.5 points each, the game could well decide if an Indian becomes the youngest world champion in history. Or if the Chinese grandmaster will extend his reign for a couple more years.
If today’s game ends in a draw, both players will be back tomorrow for to decide the battle in rapid tiebreaks.
Tiebreaks format at World Chess Championship
Here are the tiebreak rules for the World Chess Championship:
The tiebreaks see a four-game playoff where each player has just 15 minutes on the clock and earn an increment of 10 seconds for every move.
If these four games do not yield a winner, the games get faster: a two-game playoff with both players having just 10 minutes (with five seconds increment per move).
If even at this stage, we do not have a winner, the games gets frantically quick: a two-game playoff with a time control of three minutes per player (with two-second increments per move).
After this both players will play single games in three minutes (with two-second increments) time control until someone wins.
Scroll down for our updates from Game 14 from the World Chess Championship
World Chess Championship 2024 Live Updates: Ding Liren tired
Aftger playing for five hours on Wednesday, world champion Ding Liren revealed he was tired from the grind of playing in the world chess championship this year.
He also revealed that he would go to his room and spend time thinking about his strategy. “tomorrow is a golden game,” he said.
It is a golden game, a winner takes all.
If there are no winners, he head to the tiebreaks tomorrow where the players will fight in faster time controls.
World Chess Championship 2024 Live Updates: How the 2024 World Chess Championship has played out
Game 1: Ding Liren beats Gukesh with black pieces
Game 2: Draw
Game 3: Gukesh beats Ding Liren with white
Rest Day – November 28
Game 4: Draw
Game 5: Draw
Game 6: Draw
Rest Day – December 2
Game 7: Draw
Game 8: Draw
Game 9: Draw
Rest Day – December 6
Game 10: Draw
Game 11: Gukesh beats Ding Liren with white
Game 12: Ding Liren beats Gukesh with white
Rest Day – December 10
Game 13: Draw
World Chess Championship 2024 Live Updates: Susan Polgar’s views on today’s game
On Twitter, chess legend Susan Polgar has offered a detailed breakdown of what each player must today to prevail. This is what she wrote:
What Ding must do:
– Do not get into severe time pressure, especially being down an hour on the clock. He was lucky to save game 13. Can’t continue to push his luck in the final game.
– Try to steer toward a strategic and positional game while staying away from complications where deep calculations would be required. This would favor Gukesh.
What Gukesh must do:
– Play objective chess and not think about the shorter time control playoff. Topalov made this mistake against Anand in the final game 12 of their 2010 match. He knew that Anand would be the favorite in the playoff so he gambled and lost instead of taking his chances in rapid.
– Play confidently and try to conserve valuable time to take advantage of any potential inaccuracies by Ding in time pressure. Another 5-10 extra minutes on move 31 in game 13 may have made a huge difference.
Viswanathan Anand, a five-time world champion, turned 55. His protégé, D Gukesh, had a chance to become the youngest-ever world champion by winning the final game of the World Chess Championship against Ding Liren. However, the game ended in a draw, pushing the match into tiebreakers.
