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It looked like we were headed for a tiebreak but Gukesh persevered and managed to get Ding to break through. As we saw in most games of the 2024 World Chess Championship, Ding Liren was behind on the clock. The world champion had 23 minutes less on the clock after the 23rd move. Gukesh pulled out a few innovations in the opening stages to ask questions of the world champion.

After world champion Ding Liren and the 18-year-old challenger from India, Gukesh, dueled on the chessboard for three weeks, their fate could be decided in the 14th game in Singapore today.

This is the last game in the classic part and if there is no winner at the end of today, we will determine the world champion in a tiebreak tomorrow. China’s Ding Liren has the whites today.

INTERACTIVE: Game 14 between Gukesh and Ding Liren

You can watch the move-by-move action from Game 14 between Gukesh and Ding Liren and also play along in the interactive game below. For all our live, real-time updates, scroll down.

Since they go into Thursday’s game tied with 6.5 points each, the game could well decide whether an Indian becomes the youngest world champion in history. Or whether the Chinese grandmaster will extend his reign for a few more years.

Tiebreak format at the World Chess Championship

The tiebreakers are a four-game playoff where each player has only 15 minutes and is given a 10-second allowance for each move. If these four games do not produce a winner, the games become faster: a two-game playoff in which both players only have 10 minutes (with a five-second advantage per move). Even though we don’t have a winner at this point, the games are moving quickly: a two-game playoff with a three-minute time limit per player (with two-second increments per move).

Then both players play individual games in three minutes (with two-second increments) under time control until someone wins.

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