Rolling report: Gukesh Dommaraju has become the youngest ever world champion after pouncing on an error in Game 14. Get reaction with Bryan Graham
) but it was over in one move and both players knew it. Ding’s head is in hands, looking down at a lost pawn endgame. A horrific one-move blunder.
“His facial expression showed that he was very happy and excited and I realized I made a blunder. It took some time to realize it.”Magnus Carlsen passes along his congratulations to the new champion … before deleting his tweet.The newly minted 18th world chess champion is overwhelmed by emotion while scenes of elation are setting off in the spectators’ area outside.) but it was over in one move and both players knew it. Ding’s head is in hands, looking down at a lost pawn endgame.
“Unless one of them suddenly makes a massive blunder, we are heading to the playoff,” the former women’s world champion Susan Polgarafter a 10-minute think. White is more comfortable out of the opening but no immediate danger for black. “I think the opening choice from Ding was an expected one,” Dvorkovich says. “And Gukesh prepared variations that nobody expected. The structure is still more or less standards. There are just some specific lines that differ from standard Tarrasch variations. There’s a lot of life in this position. Of course it all depends on the motivation of the players and whether Ding is ready for a big fight today or he wants to make a safe line .
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