Youngest-ever challenger D Gukesh settles for a draw against defending champion Ding Liren in a marathon World Chess Championship game.

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For the second game in a row, India's D. Gukesh failed to capitalise on a big advantage and landed in an inferior position as Game 8 ended in a draw with reigning champion Ding Liren of China defending stoutly and brilliantly to turn things around in an edge-of-the-seat roller-coaster at

The final of the FIDE World Chess Championship will take place between Ding Liren and Gukesh Dommaraju. Here are some rare facts about the 18-year-old grandmaster from Chennai.

D Gukesh, the youngest-ever challenger, missed a winning position against defending champion Ding Liren in the seventh game of the World Chess Championship, ending in a draw after over five hours of play.

Both Gukesh and Ding Liren managed to earn 0.5 points from the sixth game, and have the scores tied 3-3 with eight games to be played

Ding Liren vs D Gukesh in the 2024 FIDE World Championship has now entered its second half and it was ushered there by a marathon of a game 7 that Gukesh nearly had in his grasp. Nearly, though, as Aaditya Narayan puts it here is never going to win you a World Championship and to do that the young Indian challenger needs to shrug off the vast disappointment of having missed out on a golden opportunity to make the current 3.

Indian challenger D Gukesh and defending champion Ding Liren of China played out a draw in the seventh game of the World Chess Championship to remain level on points here on Tuesday.