The thirteenth sport of the FIDE World Chess Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan completed in a draw
by repetition on transfer 40. Each Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren had possibilities for benefits
in the course of the sport earlier than equality was reached at first time management. This end result leaves the match
tied at 6.5 every with Ding having the white items within the remaining sport on Saturday. There’ll
be speedy and blitz tie-breaks in Monday if that sport is drawn.

Nepomniachtchi performed 1.e4, a Closed Ruy Lopez was chosen by Ding, 10.Be3 was not fairly
new however no-one has performed it at an elite degree. Ding performed some pretty commonplace
concepts fairly rapidly and after 14.d4 (Caruana suggests opening the a-file first with 14.axb4
was most likely extra correct) Ding appeared to have few issues with 16…Nc4 being no less than equal.
Nepomniachtchi’s 18.f3?! was doubtful with 18.Qe2 being higher. After the sad 19.Bf2
Nepomniachtchi was visibly sad.

The subsequent key second was on black’s transfer 21. Ding thought for 25 minutes, 21…Rb8 was the engine’s
selection and 21…Qg5 was the aggressive attacking selection, Ding performed 21….Re5 whose
goal was a bit unclear and after which white was nice once more. After Ding performed
23…Qe7?! (23…Qe8 not blocking the bishop was higher) it regarded like Nepomniachtchi may
get some possibilities, Ding stated he had missed 24.Qd4! On transfer 25 Ding was pressured to half with
the alternate however appeared to have sufficient for it. The engines do not have many points with
what adopted and by transfer 36 the place was balanced and the gamers determined to repeat
and draw on transfer 40.

All of the play for on Saturday. I suppose Ian Nepomniachtchi may be marginal favorite in
a speedy tie-break however Ding Liren has no actual motive to keep away from them. It is not like
Veselin Topalov in opposition to Viswanathan Anand in 2010 the place the Bulgarian went down in flames
within the remaining sport fairly than tackle Anand in a speedy tie-break. Magnus Carlsen was large favorite
in his tie-breaks in opposition to Sergey Karjakin and Fabiano Caruana and did certainly win comfortably.
Ding will try to Saturday however I do not anticipate large dangers.

Rating Nepomniachtchi 6.5 – Ding 6.5. Better of 14 video games.

Relaxation day Friday twenty eighth April 2023.

Recreation 14 Ding-Nepomniachtchi Saturday twenty eighth April 10am UK time.