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The World Chess Championship battle between the challenger from India, D Gukesh, and the title-holder from China, Ding Liren, has gone down the wire. After 13 games, the match is on tenterhooks at 6.5 points each, with just one game left to be played in Singapore.

Only kings remained on board after 54 moves and more than four hours of play. Still, Game 9 in Singapore on Thursday felt like the most underwhelming draw of the World Chess Championship match between reigning champion Ding Liren and challenger D Gukesh. And that's because the preceding two games…

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

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

D Gukesh is not back on track in the World Chess Championship match yet, but he has regrouped himself. And that was good enough to pass as satisfactory as he drew the second game with black pieces against Ding Liren in Singapore on Tuesday.

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

D Gukesh was ready to pounce, but he was not fully prepared for the counter-attack.

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The weight of expectations and of posing a challenge sits on the shoulders of teenager D Gukesh when he takes on the reigning champion Ding Liren in the World Chess Championship in Singapore from Monday (November 25).