Gukesh and Ding set for explosive final showdown

IMAGE: Ding Liren and Gukesh remain deadlocked at 6.5-6.5 after the 13th round. Photographs: Kind Courtesy Eric-Rosen/FIDE Years of relentless preparation and unyielding focus have boiled down to......

Gukesh holds Ding: Chess C'ship heads for dramatic finale

IMAGE: Ding Liren managed to hold off a determined challenge from D. Gukesh. Photograph: Kind Courtesy Eric-Rosen/FIDE Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh tried his best but could not break past a......

'Gukesh Must Go All Out For Win Today'

'If Gukesh wins, he has to survive in Game 14.''But if Liren wins, then it will be game over for Gukesh.' IMAGE: Can Dommaraju Gukesh make most of his advantage of playing with white in Game 13?......

World Championship: Gukesh will need nerves of steel at business end

While the mind games will go on in the last two games and a potential tiebreaker, American Hikaru Nakamura and world number one Magnus Carlsen feel that the balance had tilted slightly in Ding......

Gukesh In Tears After Loss

IMAGE: A disappointed Dommaraju Gukesh after losing Game 12 against China's Ding Liren at the World Chess Championship in Singapore on Monday, December 9, 2024. Photographs: Maria Emelianova/FIDE......