I know most of you aren't interested in chess, but I am.... Ding Escapes In Game 7 Thriller To Tie Gukesh At Halfway Of World Chess Championship
The 2024 FIDE‡ World Chess Championship is underway, and game 7 just finished in the Best of 14 match. The score is tied at 3.5 each for India GM Gukesh Dommaraju and defending champion China GM Ding Liren. Each player has won one game, and there have been 5 draws. (1 point for a win; ½ for a draw.)
[Ding] did it again, however, finding another deep resource to escape what should have been a technically lost endgame. The match is level at 3.5-3.5 at the halfway mark.
The match is taking place in Singapore, so the games take place in the middle of the night night. (Game 8 was at 4 AM Wednesday morning Eastern Standard Time.) But the Chess24 YouTube channel has the reviews of the games. A Grandmaster-level chess game can take many hours. The reviews are less than 10 minutes.
You can also find the games live on on that YouTube channel (click on the "live" tab). Game 7 lasted more than 6 hours, so you could watch part of it, even if you didn't want to get up in the early morning hours.
‡ FIDE, stands for the Fédération Internationale des Échecs or the World Chess Federation in English. It is the governing body for chess on the world stage. The organization's name is pronounced like Fee-day.
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