Ding Liren and Gukesh Dommaraju played to a third successive bloodless result in the sixth game of their world championship showdown on Sunday in Singapore, as the Indian teenager fought back from a questionable decision to reject a draw offer from an inferior position to split the point after 46 moves.
Ding, the 32-year-old champion from China, played a new first move (1 d4) for the third time in three games with the favored white pieces, opting for the en vogue London System and creating structural imbalances early by doubling black’s pawns on the c-file. It was the same opening he deployed in Game 6 of his world title match with Ian Nepomniachtchi last year.
