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Ding Liren lets Gukesh D off hook in Game 5 draw as world title match remains deadlocked

Ding Liren and Gukesh Dommaraju played to a 40-move draw in the fifth game of the world chess championship on Saturday in Singapore

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Gukesh and Ding Liren draw Game 4 of tied World Chess Championship final

Indian teenager and China’s reigning world champion record second draw of 14-game final in Singapore.

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Ding Liren and Gukesh D all square in world title match after 42-move draw in Game 4

Ding Liren, left, and Gukesh Dommaraju played to a draw on Friday in the fourth game of their world title match in Singapore.

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Gukesh and Ding tied in world chess title clash as England’s best pitch up at Emirates

After Gukesh Dommaraju and Ding Liren draw game four to tie the match at 2-2, English talents prepare to take on overseas rivals

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Gukesh beats Ding Liren in Game 3; ties World Chess Championship final

Indian teenager makes comeback on day three after losing the opening game and drawing the second one in Singapore.

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Gukesh Dommaraju levels World Chess Championship as Ding Liren loses on time in Game 3

Gukesh Dommaraju has scored his first win of the world chess championship over Ding Liren in the third game of their $2.5m showdown in Singapore

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World Chess Championship: Ding Liren leads Gukesh Dommaraju after Game 2 draw

Reigning champion Ding Liren was fended off by challenger Gukesh Dommaraju’s stiff defence in a tense draw, but Ding leads 1½-½

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What is today's Google Doodle and why is it celebrating the World Chess Championship?

Today’s Doodle is celebrating a game of strategy - but why?

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Ding Liren beats Gukesh Dommaraju in World Chess Championship 2024 Game 1 – as it happened

Rolling report: Ding Liren defeated Gukesh Dommaraju in Game 1 of the World Chess Championship from Singapore. Bryan Graham was watching

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How India’s Chennai mints world-beating chess champions, one move at a time

As Gukesh Dommaraju aims to win the world championships starting Monday, a city of chess stars cheers him on.

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World Chess Championship 2024: Ding Liren v Gukesh Dommaraju pre-match questions, answered

Not sure when the world chess championship starts, who’s tipped to win, and why Magnus Carlsen isn’t playing? We (mostly) have the answers

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World Chess Championship final 2024: Schedule, format, prize money, players

All the details about the biggest two weeks in chess as a young Indian grandmaster takes on the Chinese world champion.

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Champion Ding and challenger Gukesh prepare for world title battle

China’s world champion Ding Liren, 32, will face his Indian rival Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, on Monday.

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Magnus Carlsen: ‘Play chess against Mo Salah? I would love that’

The football-mad world No 1 is in London playing for a $1m prize fund and despite dominating the chess world says he has never played the perfect game

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Chess: India win double gold as new generation dominates at Olympiad

India won the Open and Women’s Olympiads in Budapest, while for the first time in history no European team reached the podium in either event

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Chess: India win every match at Olympiad as US and England trail

With three rounds to go, India have won all eight of their matches in Budapest without loss of a game, while the top seeded US team is fifth and England 17th

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Chess: Alireza Firouzja wins Sinquefield Cup unbeaten and jumps to world No 5

The Iran-born Frenchman, 21, scored 6/9 to win in St Louis, half a point clear of the US champion and world No 3, Fabiano Caruana

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Chess: Carlsen and Niemann impress as Paris grudge rematch approaches

The pair will meet early next month for the first time across the board since the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, where their game sparked cheating allegations and a $100 million lawsuit

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Chess: Hans Niemann closes on world top 20 as US star impresses in London

The ambitious American led narrowly after six games in his five-day match against the England No 1, Nikita Vitiugov, which includes classical, rapid and blitz sections

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Chess: Carlsen loses in 23 moves but beats Ding and wins Titled Tuesday

The world No 1 arrived at the World Team Rapid and Blitz jetlagged and lost to Richard Rapport but then beat the world champion before scoring 11/11 in the weekly event

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Chess: Yagiz Erdogmus, 13, on the verge of 2600 and closing on world age record

The Turkish teen is poised to achieve the landmark rating at September’s 193-nation chess Olympiad in Budapest

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Chess: Caruana equals Carlsen’s record as Kasparov criticises world title match

Fabiano Caruana, the world No 3 and US champion, won the Zagreb Rapid/Blitz with a record-equalling total of 27/36, and was sure of first prize with five rounds to spare

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England reveal strong Olympiad squads as seniors campaign for gold in Krakow

Top five English grandmasters will feature in Budapest – as will nine-year-old prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan

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Chess: Carlsen and Nakamura dominate in Stavanger, while Ding falters again

Magnus Carlsen continued his winning streak in Norway as Hikaru Nakamura gained the No 2 ranking, but China’s world champion finished a poor last of six

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Chess: Magnus Carlsen loses on home turf in Norway to 18-year-old Indian

Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, fifth in the Candidates, says: ‘I can beat these players, but I have to play my best for that’

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