World Chess Championship 2024

Gukesh is World Chess Champion

Ding Liren vs

Gukesh D. Nepo vs Ding Liren -- World Chess Ch. 2021 Carlsen vs Nepo -- 2018 Carlsen vs Caruana -- 2016 Carlsen vs Karjakin

2014 Carlsen vs Anand -- 2013 Anand vs Carlsen --2012 Anand vs Gelfand -- 2010 Anand vs Topalov -- 2008 Anand vs Kramnik

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Ding Liren

Birth year: 1992
Federation: China
Current rating: 2728
Overall record: + 553 - 223 = 792 before the World Champ.

Gukesh

Birth year: 2006
Federation: India
Current rating: 2783
Overall record: + 1112 - 518 = 570 before the World Champ.

Watch the Games

23 November - 13 December 2024
Singapore
14 games . The winner of the match shall be
the first player to score 7.5 points or more.
If the scores are level after 14 games,
4 tie-break are played.

Time controls: 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game,
with a 30-second increment starting from move 41.

Total prize fund for the match is $2.5 million

$200,000 for each win
The remaining prize money will be split equally between the players.

Classical Games
Game	Gukesh	Ding Liren	Opening	Aggregate Gukesh - Liren
1	0	1	French def.	1 - 0
2	0.5	0.5	Italian op.- 4 Knights	1.5 - 0.5
3	1	0	Queen's pawn game	1.5 - 1.5
4	0.5	0.5	Reti	2 - 2
5	0.5	0.5	French d. exchange	2.5 - 2.5
6	0.5	0.5	London system	3 - 3
7	0.5	0.5	Neo Grünfeld	3.5 - 3.5
8	0.5	0.5	English Kramnik-Shirov counter attack	4 - 4
9	0.5	0.5	Bogo-Indian defence	4.5 - 4.5
10	0.5	0ç5	French def. Steinitz	5 - 5
11	1	0	Reti advance var.	6 - 5
12	0	1	English Neo Catalan	6 - 6
13	0.5	0.5	French def.	6.5 - 6.5
14	1	0	Zukertort Opening - Reversed Grunfeld	7.5 - 6.5

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Standings -- Results

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