World Chess Championship 2024 Game 7 Live Updates: Gukesh contemplates his next move in the World Chess Championship against Ding Liren in Singapore. (PHOTO: FIDE/Maria Emelianova)
FIDE World Chess Championship 2024, Game 7 Singapore Live Updates, Gukesh D vs Ding Liren: Gukesh and Ding Liren are back on the board today for the seventh installment of their battle for the world champion’s throne in Singapore after their second rest day.
Gukesh will play with the white pieces in Game 7 of the World Chess Championship.
While world champion Ding Liren won game 1 of the World Chess Championship, it was Gukesh who won Game 3. Both players head into Game 7 of the World Chess Championship tied at three points each.
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The last three games of the World Championship since Gukesh’s win have ended in draws. Many elite grandmasters like former world champions Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik have slammed the level of play at the World Championship so far between the two players. Kramnik said that he was “disappointed” by the level of play. Carlsen, meanwhile, had said after Game 5 that the 18-year-old Gukesh had “generally not impressed” him. Meanwhile, world no 3 Hikaru Nakamura said that he was confounded by Ding Liren’s strategy so far in the six games.
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INTERACTIVE: Game 7 between Gukesh and Ding Liren
You can check out the move by move action from Game 7 between Gukesh and Ding Liren and also play along in the interactive below. Scroll down to read our updates in real time from Game 7.
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Gukesh contemplates his next move against Ding Liren in game 5 of the World Chess Championship in Singapore. (PHOTO: FIDE/Eng Chin An)
