After seven straight draws, Indian rival D Gukesh advanced by defeating China’s Ding Liren in match 11 of the FIDE World Chess Championship in Singapore on Sunday. With three games remaining in the match, the 18-year-old resigned from the world champion to take the lead for the first time.
Winning any match at the World Championships is sweet, but Gukesh achieved it by besting the World Champion in a massive time scrabble that made both players lucky from the opening stages. Ding is known to be a very good player in fast time control such as speed and blitz. But on Sunday, he got worse.
Follow: Highlights of Gukesh’s win in Game 11
The manner in which Gukesh won also made this victory special.
In a match where the world seemed to move slowly at times – especially when Ding spent 38 minutes on his 4th move and 22 minutes on his 5th, and Gukesh took an hour on move 11 – it ended in two moves. within a minute.
Interactive: Game 11 between Gukesh and Ding Liren
You can check out the move by move action from Game 11 between Gukesh and Ding Liren and also play in the interactive below.
Move. I don’t know if this is a novelty. But last night, my team showed me and I really liked the idea,” said Gukesh, praising his hidden team and coach Grzegorz Gajewski of Sec.
At the press conference, Gukesh said, ‘At some point it was a blitz game. “I was glad to see him thinking so long. I was glad to take advantage of that time.
Ding lost game 3 due to timing. Gukesh controlled the past time in one game with one second left on his clock. Even on Sunday, the timing problem seemed a very real threat.
Ding made 16 moves in one stage with only eight minutes remaining while Gukesh had to make 15 moves in less than 15 runs.
Ding now needs to do something he’s been avoiding since winning Game 1: play for the win.
But the world champion found some hope in his match against Ian Nepomniacci at the 2023 World Chess Championship.
“Last time too I came back with a white piece in the 12th round. Tomorrow, I will definitely try,” said Ding.