The World Chess Championship 2024 is set to take place between November 25 and December 13, 2024, in Singapore. This event will feature a match between the reigning world champion, Ding Liren from China, and the challenger, Gukesh Dommaraju from India, to determine who will be the World Chess Champion 2024. The match will be held in Singapore at Resorts World Sentosa, marking the first time Singapore hosts this prestigious event. The championship is officially known as the World Chess Championship 2024 presented by Google, indicating significant sponsorship from Google.
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The predictions for the upcoming series of matches is based mainly on Gukesh and Liren’s recent forms; while the Indian had suffered his first loss in 38 Classical games in last month’s European Chess Club Cup, Liren has been far from his best this year and has not won a game in the Classical format since January. Among the many who spoke most consider Gukesh to start as favorite, and even Ding Liren considers Gukesh favorite at the start of the match.
However, the coach of Gukesh, Vishnu Prasanna, has a different opinion. For First post he says, “I’m sure Gukesh is smart enough not to take that too seriously. I don’t think Gukesh considers himself a favorite. And even if he does, you start from 0-0, I guess. Whatever has happened so far, does not have a real impact. I think only after game one, you will know who is the favorite; or, after game two or three, when the players show the cards there – how nervous they are there. So, Ding’s bad form so far does not matter so much. I’m sure he has worked on himself over the past few months. So, yes, it will be an interesting match, I’m sure. Favourite is an exaggeration. I mean right after Gukesh won the Candidates also, there was a discussion that he was the favourite. But I kind of talked against it. I would still say that it’s pretty even on that day,”
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So far Gukesh stays humble and says, “I don’t really buy into these things that people say about the match. I’m sure Ding Liren will be coming into the match with the right spirit and he’ll be trying his best. My approach is to treat every game with the utmost respect and energy and give it my best”