World Chess Championship 2024 Game 13: Ding Liren has to make 26 moves in 48 minutes

By our Special Correspondent

For the third time in the 2024 World Chess Championship, Ding Liren has resorted to the French Defence after Gukesh started with 1.e4. Gukesh had lost the first game of the world championship after failing to break down the Chinese world champion’s French Defence.

                   Ding spent 17 minutes on move 7, and then 37 minutes on his 8th move after Gukesh played 8.Be3. After just eight moves from Gukesh, Ding Liren is already down about 54 minutes on the clock compared to Gukesh. The Indian teenager meanwhile has spent just 55 seconds on his 8 moves.