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Dec-12-24 Ding - Gukesh World Championship Match (2024)    optimal play: Congratulations Gukesh. Commiserations Ding. It’s certainly been a very interesting match for which we can thank both combatants. I suppose for those who don’t like tiebreaks to decide the world championship, they may be happy that it ended with the classical games, but I      Dec-12-24 Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024    optimal play: I went to bed after the Queen trade expecting a draw and woke up to hear on the radio that Gukesh was the new chess world champion!? I thought “What the heck happened?” Ding was doing okay until he decided at move 19 he wanted to go straight to rapids. Gukesh, to his ...      Dec-11-24 D Gukesh vs Ding Liren, 2024    optimal play: After reaching the 40 move time control with an even game I was pretty sure this would end in a draw. Great resilience by Ding to withstand Gukesh’s attack under immense time pressure. He had to make some very precise moves in a complex position with little time on his clock ...      Dec-09-24 Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024    optimal play: Tremendous win by Ding.      Dec-09-24 D Gukesh vs Ding Liren, 2024    optimal play: Ding’s long think of about 40 mins on move 4 is inexplicable, but Gukesh thought for over an hour just a few moves later, so that Ding was actually ahead on time. In that regard, it wasn’t necessarily the clock that beat him. Prior to the obvious blunder at the end, I think      Dec-07-24 Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024    optimal play: <Cassandro: <Optie: But if Ding does come up with a killer TN in the KG, that would leave Gukesh and everyone flabbergasted! 😀> I've got one: 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.g4?! Poor Gukesh won't know what hit him.> heh heh So he’s got a TN for both white and black! ...      Dec-05-24 D Gukesh vs Ding Liren, 2024    optimal play: I thought they would have agreed to a draw at move 41 (although it was obviously a draw by about move 30) but I don’t mind players going all the way to bare kings. It gives the game a sense of completion. Anyway, not as good a game as their previous ones, but at least they ...      Dec-04-24 Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024    optimal play: A very entertaining and intriguing game in which both players had a chance to win. I like how just when you think Gukesh is going to accept the draw by three fold repetition … he doesn’t!

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