D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren Live Score Updates, World Chess Championship 2024 Game 8: Get all highlights from the eighth game between Indian GM Gukesh and Chinese Champion Liren in the World Chess Championship 2024.
World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Updates Game 8:
Indian challenger D Gukesh and Chinese champion Ding Liren get back to the main board on Wednesday for the eighth game of the World Chess Championship 2024 Final in Singapore.
The 14-game series stands tied at 3.5 points each at the end of Game 7 which ended in a draw on Tuesday.
Liren began the summit clash playing against the odds despite being the defending champion due to a slump in form in the year, but came out of the gates with a statement win in the opening game, before going on to hold out for a draw in the second.
Gukesh restored parity in the third game as he dug out his first win after Liren ran the clock out before his 40th move.
The players went on to share the spoils in games four through seven to stand with nothing between them as the game heads into the second half of the fixtures.
How Will The Title Be Decided?
For a player to be crowned the champion, one would need a total of 7.5 games from the total of 14 games. A win results in one point, a draw entitles 0.5 and a loss is 0 points respectively. If the match ends in a tie after all 14 games, a tiebreak will be held the following day to determine the winner.
This year’s tournament marks the first time in 138 years that two Asian players will be pitted against each other in the summit clash, with a prize money of USD 2.5 million going to the winner.
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D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Flip the script!
Yet again we are past the 40-move threshold in the summit clash and we will have thirty more minutes of play here on Game 8!
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Flip the script!
That’s a flip in the script as Gukesh finds himself behind Liren on the clock at the precipice of the 34th move for black in the game!
Liren has mastered the art of taking games deep and it shows!
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Swift exchanges!
A swift couple of moves here as we reach the 30-move mark in quick time.
Gukesh has a bit over 20 minutes remaining on the clock, as compared to Liren’s 13 and change.
Will we see yet another game going overtime in the final series?
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Gukesh on the clock!
Liren looks to claw his way back into the game, as he seems to do so more often than not, pushing Gukesh into bouts of deep thought as the Indian contends with the time on his clock.
26 moves down and the teenage challenger has thirty minutes and change on his side.
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Cagey!
The only pieces missing from the board are a couple of pawns on both sides and knight for white and a bishop for black a the 22-move mark.
As it stands the position looks cagey from either side of the board.
No slip ups here, if we are to see this game going the distance much like the previous iterations of this final have done!
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Liren in time trouble!
19 moves down each player and Gukesh has jjst under the hour mark left, while Liren has to make do with the half-an-hour on the clock up until move 40.
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Trade positions!
Liren falls significantly behind the clock as he has just under 40 minutes on his ticker.
Gukesh has been quick to shut down Liren’s forays up until now as the Indian challenger has over a hour’s worth of play remaining.
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Establishing positions!
Players practicing caution as the game moves into midgame.
A period of lull sets into the game as Liren looks to find a sequence that would give him the upper hand in this tight tie.
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Q And A!
12 moves down and Gukesh has defended well up until this point with the black pieces.
We expected a period of lull as the game moves past the opening sequence into early-midgame territory.
Liren has been evaluating each move carefully with accordance to the position, but Gukesh has found a way to answer the champion’s question thus far.
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Gukesh castles!
A couple of moves down the line, Gukesh goes for the castle on the king’s side.
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Liren castles!
Liren castles on his eighth move, before Gukesh opts against it for the time being.
He looks to concentrate on the middle of the board as he moves his pawn in the d file two spaces, angling for an exchange in the middle.
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: First piece(s) down!
Liren takes Gukesh’s dark-squared bishop with his knight, before the Indian removes the Champions’ knight with his own.
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Opening flurry!
A quick flurry of moves from wither side to get the game up and running as Gukesh looks to pull his bishop back, while Liren opts for a double knight approach early doors.
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Here we go!
And we are underway!
Maurice Ashley declares Game 8 open and the players exchange a warm handshake as is customary ahead of the game before Gukesh tips off Liren’s timer.
Liren begins with an English c4 pawn push to which Gukesh replies with a more conventional e5.
Liren brings his queen-side knight into action before Gukesh draws his dark-squared bishop out to b4 in an attacking move upfront.
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Players take centre stage!
The players make their way to the middle for the next interesting chapter in this evenly-fought contest!
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Liren On White For The Day!
The clock ticks away towards the commencement of the eight bout between the finalists as the tie still hangs in the balance at the end of the midway point of the series.
Will this be a matter of who flinches first amid the growing pressures of multiple draws on the trot?
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Liren On White For The Day!
Ding Liren will be on white pieces on the day as the players alternate between the colours with each passing game, with Gukesh on the black pieces in the eighth battle of the title clash!
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Most Recent Finish!
Gukesh and Liren dueled it out for over five hours on Tuesday before agreeing on a draw as the 34-year-old fought his way back from tricky situations more than once in the game to pick up half a point in the crucial encounter.
With the scores all level, the finalists go in search of a win that would help them edge ahead in the championship clash.
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: The final so far!
Game 1: Ding Liren Beat D Gukesh (1-0)
Game 2: Ding Liren And D Gukesh Play Out Draw (1.5-0.5)
Game 3: D Gukesh Beat Ding Liren (1.5-1.5)
Game 4: Ding Liren And D Gukesh Play Out Draw (2-2)
Game 5: Ding Liren And D Gukesh Play Out Draw (2.5-2.5)
Game 6: Ding Liren And D Gukesh Play Out Draw (3-3)
Game 7: Ding Liren And D Gukesh Play Out Draw (3.5-3.5)
D Gukesh Vs Ding Liren, World Chess Championship 2024 LIVE Score Game 8: Champion And Challenger Look For Edge
Hello and welcome to our LIVE blog of the World Chess Championship 2024 Game 8 between holder Ding Liren and challenger D Gukesh.
The Chinese champions and the teenage Indian will head into the eighth iteration of the 14-game series with nothing to separate them at 3.5 points apiece.
Game 8 will start in less than 1 hour! #DingGukesh
What a game we had yesterday! The score is still tied, but don’t be fooled – Game 7 was full of fight and emotions. Will today’s clash between 🇨🇳 Ding Liren and 🇮🇳 Gukesh D be as exciting?
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