FIDE World Chess Championship Singapore 2024: Official Discussion Thread

GOATkesh

I told you

Gukesh Won guyss !!

Congratulations Gukesh, Youngest-Ever Undisputed World Chess Champion!

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no it isnt

dang

when you realize :that gukesh isn't is his prime he can still grow by like 400 rating

I'd be shocked to see any human being develop a rating around 3170. 2900 I can see.

the final position is not ez. quite tricky to convert. the f-pawn must be sac'ed at f2 to win. not sure why ding resigned early-like. coulda that ding played on a few more moves just in case. if so ? ...ding probably wooda won from the momentum if gukesh dodo'ed it & drew offa bloonder.

So is that Rf2?? the biggest blunder in the history of chess? Has there ever been another blunder that bad that cost a player the World Chess Championship title?

The first example that comes to mind is when Chigorin, in his WCC match with Steinitz, walked into a mate in two from a winning position.

No, actually. Chigorin, in game 23 vs Steinitz in the 1892 World Championship match, trailing 8 wins to 9 (10 wins being required for the match win)) with 5 draws, undefended his h2 pawn by moving Bd6-b4, leaving the simple Rxh2+ Kg1 Rdg2#. That was a much more blatant error by Chigorin.

yeah, after looking at that one, it is pretty big blunder. Still, you have go way back to find that one.

Congratulations Gukesh!

Our Indians' pride - the 18 year old prodigy and the youngest World Chess Champion!

I may probably be the worst chess player in the world, so please forgive me if I am asking a dumb question.
It has been my belief that GMs 'visualize' the board many moves ahead and that is one of the factors which separates the men from the boys, so to speak.
Why then was Ding unable to see a single move ahead in the last game?
Fatigue? Carelessness? Or is my belief mistaken and GMs are like the rest of us mortals, and they just 'visualize' positions that they have encountered earlier in their career?

GUKESH WINSSSSSS LEZGOOOOO

I only saw this yesterday

Perhaps there is a problem with your assumption that Ding was unable to see a single move ahead in the last game that is mistaken? His accuracy of 95.2 in it is not poor. Gukesh was just a bit more accurate, amazingly so, really, at 98.9, which some would estimate as about a 3300-level game when such a game is decisive.

But going back to your assumption, Ding was visualizing positions at greater depth than most mortals for most of the game, but had a moment of blindness in his calculations, where he did not consider the ramifications of the R and B trades around moves 56-57, when one still has to be able to see far enough ahead to resign. Surely you see that both you and he can calculate many moves ahead at this point to see that you can justifiably resign?

Good job to Gukesh Dommaraju! That is a very young age for a world champion!

A lot of people are salty that Gukesh won