World chess champ Ding and teen challenger Gukesh tied past halfway mark

Gukesh Dommaraju gives up beardown presumption successful mediate crippled with inaccurate moves successful eighth lucifer of satellite title successful Singapore.

Defending satellite chess champion Ding Liren and teenage challenger Gukesh Dommaraju played to a 5th consecutive gully with neither subordinate taking the pb aft 8 games.

Both players were deadlocked astatine 4 points each successful the archetypal World Championship brushwood betwixt 2 Asian players arsenic the 14-match tourney went past the halfway people connected Wednesday successful Singapore.

For the 2nd crippled successful a row, Gukesh appeared to springiness up a beardown presumption during the mediate crippled by playing a bid of inaccurate moves.

However, the Indian teen rejected Ding’s connection of a gully aft 41 moves and played immoderate attacks during the endgame successful an effort to get a result.

But the Chinese grandmaster fended disconnected the offensive, and the players yet shook hands connected different gully aft 51 moves.

Gukesh admitted that helium was not alert of his perilous presumption erstwhile helium rejected the gully and instantly enactment Ding nether check.

“I didn’t deliberation I was successful overmuch danger,” said the 18-year-old, who played with the achromatic pieces.

“I ever thought that successful my position, possibly I would person immoderate chances, but it was conscionable a misjudgement of the position.”

Ding, for his part, rued his inability to property location his advantage.

“Today during the game, I didn’t realise that I was winning astatine immoderate point,” the 32-year-old said.

“I deliberation helium missed immoderate important details, which fto maine get backmost into the game, but earlier that, helium was wholly outplaying maine again.

“Actually, I didn’t consciousness excessively tense during the game, but I felt uncomfortable retired of the open.”

Game 9 of the bid volition instrumentality spot astatine Resorts World Sentosa connected Thursday.

The archetypal subordinate to get 7.5 points volition beryllium declared the winner.

Tiebreaks volition instrumentality spot if the players are tied connected 7 points aft 14 games.

Gukesh is the youngest subordinate successful past to vie successful the World Championship and helium is looking to surpass Garry Kasparov arsenic the youngest undisputed satellite chess champion.