World Chess Championship 2024 Game 9 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 9 Singapore Live Updates, Gukesh D vs Ding Liren: The world champion from China and his teenage challenger from India are back at the board for the ninth installment of their riveting battle for the World Chess Championship crown.
After eight hard-fought games at the FIDE World Championship, Ding Liren and Gukesh are level on four points each with both players having won a single game so far.
While Ding Liren had won the first game of the World Championship, it was Gukesh who has tasted victory most recently.
Game 7 and 8 of the World Championship have seen wild see-saw battles.
A very paradoxical dynamic has emerged in the match with Ding Liren not wanting to push for a win even when he is in a better position and Gukesh refusing to play for a draw — twice now — when he is in a worse position. This has earned Gukesh praise from chess legends like Magnus Carlsen and the Polgar sisters, Susan and Judit.
Some of the world’s elite grandmasters like Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura have a theory about why Ding Liren has been playing for draws at the World Chess Championship.
INTERACTIVE: Game 9 between Gukesh and Ding Liren
You can check out the move by move action from Game 9 between Gukesh and Ding Liren and also play along in the interactive below. Scroll down to read our updates in real time from Game 9.
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World Chess Championship Game 8: Gukesh and Ding Liren agree to a draw. (FIDE via Maria Emelianova)
