Ding's million dollar mistake

by Frederic Friedel
12/29/2024 – After our Christmas Puzzles, involving kings and a couple of pawns, you may be tempted to call Ding Liren's oversight in the final game of the World Championship match a gross blunder. It was a catastrophic mistake that cost the World Champion millions of dollars of potential future income. How it came about is explained by ChessBase Magazine author GM Dorian Rogozenco in this video reconstruction.

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Chapter 4.1 of ChessBase Magazine 223 has a video wrap-up by GM Dorian Rogozenko of the 2024 World Championship in Singapore, which you can watch here for free:

You should move the video to 25:24" to catch the key part of today's discussion.

You can order the ChessBase Magazine 223 here. It comes as a CB Book, Download, or Postal Delivery (booklet + key). The magazine contains over six hours of video playing time, with recordings by Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Daniel King, Jan Markos, Karsten Müller, Oliver Reeh, Robert Ris and Dorian Rogozenco.

Editor-in-Chief emeritus of the ChessBase News page. Studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and Oxford, graduating with a thesis on speech act theory and moral language. He started a university career but switched to science journalism, producing documentaries for German TV. In 1986 he co-founded ChessBase.

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