Ding-Gukesh World Championship Match Venue Announced
The 2024 FIDE World Championship between Chinese defending champion GM Ding Liren and his Indian challenger GM Gukesh Dommaraju will take place in Resorts World Sentosa, a resort complex that includes Universal Studios Singapore, on an island off the coast of Singapore. The luxury venue will also host a $75,000 international open during the match.
On July 1, FIDE announced that Singapore would host the $2.5 million Ding vs. Gukesh match, while today, they announced the exact venue of the event that runs November 20-December 15.
Singaporean GM and Chair of the Local Organizing Committee Kevin Goh Wei Ming commented:
This partnership preserves the prestige of the FIDE World Chess Championship while introducing an element of modernity and excitement—visitors can enjoy the luxury of having many attractions a stone’s throw away from the match venue to complement the existing suite of ancillary chess events.
Those events include a 100,000 SGD (~75,000 USD) Singapore International Open that runs November 29-December 5 in the Resorts World Sentosa Convention Centre and Under-8 to Under-20 national tournaments that are also open to foreign guests. Those run November 24-28.
Seventeen-year-old Siddharth Jagadeesh, who officially still has the international master title but has already completed the requirements to become Singapore's sixth grandmaster, said:
It’s amazing that I will not only be able to witness the World Championship match up close but also compete in a strong international tournament in my own country.
In a few days' time, we'll get a warm-up for the World Championship match as Ding takes on Gukesh in the 2024 Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis.
Colin McGourty led news at Chess24 from its launch until it merged with Chess.com a decade later. An amateur player, he got into chess writing when he set up the website Chess in Translation after previously studying Slavic languages and literature in St. Andrews, Odesa, Oxford, and Krakow.
