What is today's Google Doodle and why is it celebrating the World Chess Championship?

Google Doodle is 1 of those things that bring a spark to your time portion teaching you thing new. And for Monday, November 25, it is nary different.

The rules of the crippled archetypal began taking their modern signifier successful the 15th period but wherefore has Google jumped connected the fashionable crippled for its online scribble?

The doodle for November 25 is chess-themed and has been done to observe the 2024 World Chess Championships.

Two apical chess players from astir the globe volition spell caput to caput successful committee crippled battles crossed November and December successful the hopes of being crowned the champion astir Christmas time.

The lawsuit is being held successful Singapore from Monday, November 25 to Sunday, December 15.

It is really being sponsored by Google this twelvemonth and volition spot 14 games being held betwixt the reigning champion Ding Liren against challenger Gukesh Dommaraju.

Each lucifer is expected to past astir 4 hours and the archetypal subordinate to triumph 7.5 points volition beryllium crowned the champion for 2024. The players person 2 hours to marque 40 moves, past 30 minutes to extremity the game. 30 seconds are added for each determination from determination 41 onwards.

In the lawsuit of a tie, they volition play “blitz games” wherever each subordinate lone gets 3 minutes to checkmate the other.

The prize money is $2,500,000, and each subordinate volition person $200,000 for each crippled they win. The remaining wealth volition beryllium divided arsenic betwixt the 2 players. If the lucifer is decided connected a tie-break, the victor volition person $1,300,000, and the runner-up receives $1,200,000.

The existent champion is called Ding Liren, and helium won the accolade successful 2023.

But aft helium won the eventual champion title, helium disappeared from nationalist presumption and did not play successful immoderate nonrecreational contests for months connected end.

He aboriginal confessed helium had been suffering from fatigue and slump and withdrew from tournaments including the 2023 Asian Games.

He returned to classical chess successful January 2024 astatine the Tata Steel Chess tourney wherever helium announced that helium was readying connected defending his satellite rubric successful the World Chess Championship.

The archetypal lucifer starts connected Monday, November 25 and begins astatine 5pm successful Singapore, which is 1am UK time.

Full sum begins astatine this clip online. Fans volition beryllium capable to ticker the matches unrecorded connected Chess.com/TV and the Chess24 Twitch and YouTube channels.