World Championship: D Gukesh will take a step towards victory!!

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World Championship: D Gukesh will take a step towards victory, eyes on comeback against Liren


Gukesh broke the draw streak and took the lead by winning the 11th round on Sunday, but Liren made a comeback in the 12th round on monday and defeated Gukesh.


Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh will take the step towards becoming the champion by winning the 13th round of the World Chess championship against defending champion Ding Liren of China. Gukesh broke the draw streak and took the lead by winning the 11th round on Sunday, but Liren made a comeback in the 12th round on monday and defeated Gukesh. In this way, currently both the players are tied with six points each.

An interesting competition is going on between the youngest challenger 18-year-old Gukesh and 32-year-old Liren of China in which no player has been able to maintain his lead for long. After a day's rest, both the players will data-face each other again on Wednesday. In this 14-round match, the score is tied at 6-6 after 12 rounds and the player who reaches 7.5 first will become the world champion. If the score remains tied even after 14 rounds, then a tiebreak will be resorted to.


Gukesh had a chance to reach the magical figure of 7.5 after winning the 11th game buthe lost the next game. The indian player has to play the next game with white pieces and it is confident that he will adopt an aggressive attitude in this important game of this match being played in classical format. Now that the match has reached an exciting turn, whichever player will work with patience will be at an advantage.


In this match, the score was tied at 5-5 after 10 games but the results of the next two matches came out after that. This match had become dull due to continuous draws but the last two matches have breathed new life into this competition. Now with two rounds of play remaining, both players have a good chance to take the lead.

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