Ding Liren v Gukesh Dommaraju: World Chess Championship Game 14 – live updates

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Hello and welcome to Game 14 of the world chess championship. China’s Ding Liren and India’s Gukesh Dommaraju are facing off in a best-of-14-games match for the winner’s share of a $2.5m (£1.98m) prize fund at the Equarius Hotel at Resorts World Sentosa, an island resort off Singapore’s southern coast. It’s the first time in the 138-year history of world championship matchplay that two men from Asia are competing for the sport’s most prestigious title.

Ding became China’s first men’s world chess champion by defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi last year on tiebreakers in Kazakhstan. Known for his solid and precise playing style based on creating small positional advantages from quiet openings, the 32-year-old from Zhejiang province is the highest-rated Chinese player of all time. A graduate of Peking University Law School, he once went unbeaten in 100 straight classical games, a record streak broken only by Magnus Carlsen in 2019.

Gukesh Dommaraju, commonly known as Gukesh D, is an 18-year-old Indian prodigy who became the third-youngest grandmaster in history at 12 years and seven months. In April, at 17, the Chennai native stunned the chess establishment by winning the eight-man Candidates tournament in Toronto to become the youngest ever challenger for the world championship, finishing top of a stacked field that included Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. An aggressive player known for using sharp, tactical openings to create complex positions aimed at unsettling opponents, he can shatter the record for youngest ever undisputed world champion held by Garry Kasparov, who was 22 when he dethroned Karpov in their 1985 rematch in Moscow.

We’re a little more than a half hour from the ceremonial first move. Plenty more to come.

What time is Game 14 of the Ding Liren v Gukesh Dommaraju world chess championship?

China’s Ding Liren is defending the world chess championship against fast-rising Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju. The best-of-14-games match for an overall prize fund of $2.5m (£1.98m) is all square at 6½-6½ after 13 games.

Either Ding or Gukesh can win the world title with a win in today’s 14th game. If it ends in a draw, a series of tiebreak games with faster time controls will be played on Friday to determine the champion.

• Game 14 starts at 5pm local time, 9am in London, 4am in New York

• Ding will have the white pieces for Game 14 and make the first move

• Read the Guardian’s comprehensive watch guide for the world championship match

• Go move by move through 22 of the most famous games in world championship history

Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime here’s a look back at Wednesday’s high-wire Game 13.