FIDE World Chess Championship 2024, Game 3 Singapore Live Updates, Gukesh D vs Ding Liren: World champion Ding Liren lost the third game on time to Gukesh after being in trouble on the clock and on the board for most of the game. At some point during the third game of the World Chess Championship against Gukesh, the world champion needed to make 11 moves in eight minutes. That fell rapidly with Ding needing to make four moves in five seconds.
The result of game 3 of the 2024 World Chess Championship means that Ding Liren’s one-point advantage has been wiped off and both players head into the first rest day at par score.
Ding Liren had fallen behind by a whopping 60 minutes on the clock after Gukesh’s 13th move in game 3 of the World Chess Championship. The game saw a Queen’s Gambit on the board after Gukesh started with d4. The queens were exchanged early on, inside the first 10 moves by both players, but Ding’s impetuous jump to the c2 square with his light-squared bishop on the 10th move to pressure an unprotected pawn from Gukesh had left him in a quandary. The bishop was trapped on that square, with Ding scrambling his best to try and rescue it. But it was eventually captured on the 24th move.
After a tame 23-move draw in Game 2 of the World Chess Championship in Singapore’s Resorts World Sentosa, world champion Ding Liren had predicted that the third installment of his skirmish with India’s Gukesh will see a “big fight”. “Gukesh is down a point and he’s playing with white pieces,” said Ding Liren before adding, “I’m ready for a fight.”
INTERACTIVE: Game 3 between Gukesh and Ding Liren
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Former world champion Magnus Carlsen was unhappy with the inability of his successor on the throne to push despite having a position in game 2 that allowed him to pile pressure on his 18-year-old, upstart challenger.
“It’s hard to get better chances than this in a World Chess Championship. Ding Liren is one-nil up. He has a risk-free position. He has an opponent who hasn’t shown him anything positive in the game so far. But Ding decided not to push. That’s not surprising… This is the Ding we have been used to seeing, decent prep, gets a slightly better position but doesn’t try to win. Just happy to make draws,” Carlsen said.
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