{"id":52070,"date":"2024-12-03T18:28:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T18:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/03\/d-gukesh-holds-ding-liren-to-4th-straight-draw-after-marathon-game-7-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T18:28:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T18:28:41","slug":"d-gukesh-holds-ding-liren-to-4th-straight-draw-after-marathon-game-7-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/03\/d-gukesh-holds-ding-liren-to-4th-straight-draw-after-marathon-game-7-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"D Gukesh holds Ding Liren to 4th straight draw after marathon Game 7 &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Singapore:<\/strong> D Gukesh continued his streak of draws against defending champion Ding Liren, achieving a fourth consecutive stalemate in the World Chess Championship during an epic Game 7 in Singapore on December 3, Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The match featured both competitors completing 72 moves over more than 5 hours, marking their longest and most intense encounter in the series to date.<\/p>\n<p>The draw on Tuesday brought the series to an even 3.5-3.5 with seven games left to play. Liren faced intense pressure as he narrowly avoided a loss, managing to draw with the 18-year-old Gukesh in Game 7. Both players returned to the board following their second rest day on December 2, Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the middle and endgame, the young Indian prodigy maintained a notable advantage in both position and time. At a critical juncture, Ding was under severe time constraints, crossing the time control with a mere seven seconds remaining, while Gukesh appeared on the brink of victory.<\/p>\n<p>This incident marked the second occasion in the World Chess Championship where Ding was in a race against the clock to prevent a time forfeiture. The game extended for a total of 5 hours and 20 minutes until the two competitors agreed to a draw by shaking hands.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Singapore: D Gukesh continued his streak of draws against defending champion Ding Liren, achieving a fourth consecutive stalemate in the World Chess Championship during an epic Game 7 in Singapore on December 3, Tuesday. The match featured both competitors completing 72 moves over more than 5 hours, marking their longest and most intense encounter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/download-1-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52072,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52070\/revisions\/52072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}