World Chess Championship 2023

The World Chess Championship begins in Asthana at 9th April 3:00 PM Local Time and 2:30 PM IST. The Official inaugural ceremon was on 7th April. The whole world will be eyeing for this one event as it's going to decide The New World Chess Champion. Here we are mentioning the details of the event.

Venue : Asthana, Kazakhstan

Date Of Event : 9th April to 1st May

Number of Matches: 14

Players: GM Ian Nepominiatchi and GM Ding Liren

Match Format: 

• There will  be 14 match, the winner will be decided at the moment when one player secures 7.5 points( win:1, loss:0, draw:.5)
• The time format will be 120 minutes for first 40 moves and 60 mins for next 20 moves and 15 min for rest of the game, there will be an increament of 30 sec from 61st move
• Players can;t offer draw before 40th move

Tie break:

In case we do not have a winner by end of 14 matches, then we will be heading for Tie break. Below are rules for tie breaks

• The tie break begins with 4 rapid format play off with 25+10 time control
• If the tie persists then there will two more matches with 5+3 time control and same format will continue one more time if first 2 matches results in tie
• If the winner is still not decided then player will play matches with 3+2 time control until the winner is decided.

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Prize:

The prize pool is of 2,000,000 EUR. If the winner is decided in classical format only then winner get 60% of the money and the runner up gets 40%. But, if the winner is not decided by the classical format then winner will get 55% and runner up gets 45%.

Schedule:

Game 1 (9th Apr 2023):

A pressing game for Nepo with white but somehow Ding survived. In one position Nepo had a chance to create an edge favoring himself but he decided to play it safe. Here's an elaborated analysis of Game 1 from World chess Championship 2023

In post match presentation Ding said that he isn't in his best mental state and had not prepared for this game at all. 

Game 2 (10th Apr 2023):

In Game 2 Ding gets the white pieces and he started with 1. d4 I believe Nepo had expected it but he along with commentators were taken by surprised on move 4. Here's an elaborated analysis of Game 2 from World chess Championship 2023

Nepo draws the first blood and that too with black. He had to wait for 13 games before winning his first world chesss championship match. Tomorrow is a rest day. I am very sure  that ding would make a comeback to make the tournament interesting. 

Game 3 (12th Apr 2023):

After a rest day Everyones eye was on Ding. Whether he will be able to bounce back or scumb to his loss with white pieces in previous game. Ding shows the nerves this time and held the game together. At moments he was even better, but in the end It settles peacefully as draw.

Game 4 (13th Apr 2023):

Ding gets white pieces in Game 4 and is looking to score a win here to get equal score. Ding chose c4, the english opening.

Ding scored a win and score became 2-2. Both player does to the rest day with equal score. This must be really upsetting for Nepo as he was leading the tournament.

Game 5 (15th Apr 2023):

In game 5 Nepo tested DIng with his English preparation. Ding went under time pressure to find best moves but couldn't do it well.

Ding loses again and Nepo is again in lead.

Game 6 (16th Apr 2023):

After lose with black pieces Ding looks to level score once again. This time he took the london setup, in order to play safe

The Ding equalized the score once again. Now both players goes intoa rest day after two back to back decisive games

Game 7 (18th Apr 2023):

Nepo will have the white pieces in game 7 and will look to gain the lead again. On the other hand Ding will try his best to not let nepo get lead again. 

Nepo started with 1. e4 and again surprizing every one Ding played french

Ding clearly had an edge but he crumbles under time pressure, only if he had tried to repeat few moves in order to reach 40 moves and gain time. the result might have been different

Game 8 (20th Apr 2023):

Game 9 (21st April 2023)

Game 10 (23rd April 2023)

Game 11 (24th April 2023)

Game 12 (26th April 2023)

Game 13 (27th April 2023)

Game 14 (29th April 2023)

Game 14 concluded in a draw and the score levels betewen Ding and Nepo at 7-7. We will be heading into The Tie breaks

Game 15 (30th April 2023)

Game 16 (30th April 2023)

Game 17 (30th April 2023)

Game 18 (30th April 2023)

At the end of the tie break Chinese GM Ding Liren came out as a World champion of Chess.