We have a new Chess World Champion 18 year old Gukesh D.
(I started off by following what everyone was calling him, Dommaraju Gukesh,
but Gukesh D. is on his FIDE card. I decided to stay with my original choice
throughout the rest of this coverage for uniformity but from on it is Gukesh D.)
Finally after 14 fascinating games Ding’s tepid nature with the White pieces
and his handing of the clock caught up with him. It looked like another draw,
a difficult draw, but a draw according to the evaluation bars on the computers.
Computers have no idea of the times left, the occasion and how some positions
can be difficult for a human to play. In short, a computer does not even know it
is playing a game. It is a machine and Chess players (bless them all) are human.
When the blunder came it was a horror story. A lesson, if we at RHP ever needed
reminding, that there is no such thing as an ‘easy’ draw. Gukesh played his part
skilfully and created just enough problems to tempt Ding’s patience and when
Ding saw a chance to trade Rooks; he quickly played his 55th move, a move that
will haunt him for a long time, though to be honest you could see it coming, if not
on move 55 then probably later And suddenly the 2024 Wold Champion was over.
Position after 55.Rf4-f2?
If Ding had played 55.Ra4 the game goes on and with best play, a draw.
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@greenpawn34 saidQuality of chess in this match was quite good. Both players made some errors, Gukesh simply made fewer of them. Congrats to Gukesh. Well done! 🙂
We have a new Chess World Champion 18 year old Gukesh D.
(I started off by following what everyone was calling him, Dommaraju Gukesh,
but Gukesh D. is on his FIDE card. I decided to stay with my original choice
throughout the rest of this coverage for uniformity but from on it is Gukesh D.)
Finally after 14 fascinating games Ding’s tepid nature with ...[text shortened]... yed 55.Ra4 the game goes on and with best play, a draw.
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@greenpawn34
I also want to thank you for the analysis you did on these games. It was very informative and insightful.
Thank you Wyn-Davies,
I watched the game live on chess.com and noted up the game as it went along.
My notes are comments. Hopefully I capture the flavour but there is no way
I could compete with live videos, video recaps analysis and their computers.
Best commentator. (IMO) I've tried them all. Peter Leko.
The worst....well he is OK so not really the worst but Anish Giri goes on and
and on and just won't shut up. If he stuck to the game it would be OK.
He was on a couple times with Leko and took over gibbering utter rubbish.
I had to mute him and watch the rest of the game in blessed silence.