FIDE World Chess Championship 2024, Game 14 Singapore Live Updates, Gukesh D vs Ding Liren: After three weeks of duelling each other, world champion Ding Liren and the 18-year-old challenger could have their fate decided today in Singapore when they play in Game 14 of the World Chess Championship.
Ding Liren has the white pieces in the final classical game today.
Coming into Thursday’s game deadlocked on 6.5 points each, the game could well decide if an Indian becomes the youngest world champion in history. Or if the Chinese grandmaster will extend his reign for a couple more years.
If today’s game ends in a draw, both players will be back tomorrow for to decide the battle in rapid tiebreaks.
Tiebreaks format at World Chess Championship
Here are the tiebreak rules for the World Chess Championship:
The tiebreaks see a four-game playoff where each player has just 15 minutes on the clock and earn an increment of 10 seconds for every move.
If these four games do not yield a winner, the games get faster: a two-game playoff with both players having just 10 minutes (with five seconds increment per move).
If even at this stage, we do not have a winner, the games gets frantically quick: a two-game playoff with a time control of three minutes per player (with two-second increments per move).
After this both players will play single games in three minutes (with two-second increments) time control until someone wins.
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