World Chess Championship final 2024: Schedule, format, prize money, players

The attraction of the world’s chess aficionados volition crook towards Singapore from Monday, arsenic the city-state gears up to big the International Chess Federation’s (FIDE) World Championship last 2024.

It volition beryllium an all-Asian matter arsenic Chessmaster Ding Liren, the reigning satellite champion from China, takes connected 1 of the astir promising  young grandmasters, Gukesh Dommaraju of India.

Here’s everything you request to cognize astir the final:

When is the FIDE World Chess Championship 2024 final?

The last volition instrumentality spot from November 25 to December 13, 2024.

The 4 designated remainder days volition beryllium connected November 28, December 2, December 6 and December 10.

December 13 has been allocated for tie-breaks should the request arise.

Where is the World Chess Championship 2024 final?

It volition beryllium held astatine Resorts World Sentosa connected Sentosa Island, Singapore.

What are the rules and format of the final?

• The final, called a azygous match, volition comprise up to 14 classical games.
• The archetypal subordinate to people 7.5 points volition go the satellite champion.
• The clip power is 120 minutes for the archetypal 40 moves, followed by 60 minutes for the adjacent 20 moves, past 15 minutes for the remainder of the game. There’s a 30-second increment per determination starting connected determination 61.
• Players are not allowed to gully by statement earlier determination 41.

What happens if the last goes into a tie-break?

• The tie-break volition statesman with a four-game accelerated playoff with a 25+10 clip control.
• It volition beryllium followed by a two-game playoff with a 5+3 clip power and different two-game playoff with a 5+3 clip control.
• Three-plus-two idiosyncratic games volition beryllium played until a victor is determined.

Who is Ding Liren?

Chinese grandmaster Liren is the reigning satellite champion, a rubric helium earned successful 2023 erstwhile helium defeated Russian grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi successful the World Championship final.

Liren roseate to prominence successful 2009 when, aged 16, helium bagged his archetypal Chinese Chess Championship arsenic its youngest-ever winner. A twelvemonth later, helium broke into the apical 10 FIDE chess rankings.

The 32-year-old from Wenzhou – a southeastern metropolis with a past of producing chess champions – reigned the Chinese chess satellite from 2009 to 2016 and entered his archetypal Candidates Tournament successful 2017. Then helium was portion of the Chinese squad astatine the Chess World Cup successful the aforesaid year.

He qualified for the 2023 World Championship last arsenic the runner-up of the Candidates Tournament down grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who abdicated his spot arsenic the winner.

By beating Nepomniachtchi successful the 2023, last Liren became the archetypal Classical FIDE World Champion from China.

Ding Liren receives the FIDE World Championship trophy from FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich successful Astana, Kazakhstan connected May 1, 2023 [File: Vladislav Vodnev/Reuters]

Who is Gukesh Dommaraju?

Born successful Chennai, superior of India’s confederate Tamil Nadu authorities known arsenic the location of chess successful the country, Gukesh Dommaraju learned the athletics astatine the property of seven.

Simply known arsenic Gukesh D, the 18-year-old is the second-youngest grandmaster successful past and the youngest-ever Candidates Tournament winner. Aged 17 successful April, helium won the tourney aft drafting against Hikaru Nakamura astatine the tourney successful Toronto, Canada.

The triumph helped him acceptable up the rubric showdown against Liren and received wide enactment from the Indian diaspora, a ample fig of whom turned up astatine the tourney venue.

Should Gukesh spell 1 measurement further and decision Liren, helium would go the youngest classical satellite champion ever – moving past the Russian large Gary Kasparov, who won the rubric aged 22.

Dommaraju Gukesh [File: Handout/International Chess Federation]

What bash Ding and Gukesh person to say?

The satellite title is being compared by immoderate successful India to the classical showdown betwixt the American Bobby Fischer and Soviet large Boris Spassky astatine the tallness of the Cold War successful 1972.

Ties betwixt nuclear-armed neighbours China and India are often tense.

Ding has been impressed by his teenage opponent’s maturity. “He plays similar a seasoned subordinate contempt his young age,” said Ding, who since becoming satellite champion past twelvemonth has suffered slump and took a nine-month interruption from competitory chess.

Most pundits and players judge Gukesh volition prevail against the 32-year-old Ding, who has not won a crippled successful the classical format since January.

The humble and bearded Gukesh is having nary of it. “I don’t judge successful predictions and who are the favourites,” helium told reporters earlier the rubric match, wherever determination is simply a full prize money of $2.5 million.

“I’m conscionable focusing connected the process and I effort to conscionable beryllium astatine my champion each time and play a bully game. I conscionable privation to bask the experience.”

What’s the prize wealth for World Chess Championship 2024?

The victor volition beryllium crowned the FIDE satellite champion 2024 and locomotion distant with $2.5m.

Who are the past winners of the World Chess Championship?

The winners, nether the tournament’s existent statement arsenic the FIDE World Chess Championship, are:

• Vladimir Kramnik (Russia): 2006
• Viswanathan Anand (India): 2007-2012
• Magnus Carlsen (Norway): 2013-21
• Ding Liren (China): 2023