Gukesh beats Ding Liren in Game 3; ties World Chess Championship final

Indian teen makes a comeback connected time 3 aft losing the opening crippled and drafting the 2nd 1 against China’s reigning satellite champion successful Singapore.

India’s Gukesh Dommaraju has won the 3rd crippled of the ongoing World Chess Championship last against reigning satellite champion Ding Liren of China to necktie the wide people astatine 1.5-1.5 successful Singapore.

The 18-year-old Indian grandmaster won Wednesday’s crippled aft putting his Chinese counterpart nether pressure. As a result, Liren fell down the timepiece and mislaid the crippled connected the 3rd time of the final.

Both grandmasters are present tied successful the 14-game final, which volition interruption for a remainder time connected Thursday, earlier the enactment resumes for Game 4 connected Friday.

🇮🇳 Gukesh D WINS GAME 3 of the 2024 FIDE World Championship Match, presented by Google! #DingGukesh

Gukesh equalised the people of the lucifer astatine 1.5-1.5!

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— International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) November 27, 2024

“It feels great,” Gukesh said aft the 3rd game.

“The past 2 days I was blessed with my play. My play contiguous was adjacent better, I consciousness bully astatine the committee and contiguous I conscionable managed to outplay my hostile which is ever nice.”

Gukesh mislaid the opening crippled connected Monday and admitted nerves got the amended of him successful his archetypal satellite last against his 32-year-old opponent.

“For sure, I was tense … it would beryllium astonishing if I said I wasn’t nervous, I was surely nervous,” Gukesh told reporters aft the match.

“But aft the crippled started, I calmed down … I deliberation I was playing immoderate bully chess … and past I benignant of flipped.”

The finalists drew the 2nd game, connected Wednesday, and caput into the interruption connected adjacent terms.

At his age, Gukesh is the youngest subordinate successful past to situation for the World Championship and helium volition anticipation to surpass Garry Kasparov arsenic the youngest undisputed satellite chess champion.

There are 14 lucifer days and 4 remainder days scheduled for the satellite chess crown.

The archetypal subordinate to get 7.5 points volition beryllium declared the victor with tie-breaks scheduled if the players are tied connected 7 points aft 14 games.

Gukesh has changeable to stardom successful cricket-mad India, with young and aged fans pursuing his tally astatine the last astatine Singapore’s Resorts World Sentosa.

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