World Chess Championship 2023 (3)
Ding holds a comfortable draw with black in World Championship game 3
Mark Crowther – Wednesday 12th April 2023
Ding Liren in conversation with Ian Nepomniachtchi after their game 3 draw. Photo © | https://fide.com
The third game of the FIDE World Championship match between
Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren in Astana, Kazakhstan finished
in a draw by repetition in just 30 moves.
Nepomniachtchi with whtie switched from the 1.e4 of game one to 1.d4 and said
he wasn’t surprised by the solid Queen’s Gambit, that said he
didn’t seem to have any improvement in mind over the game Anish Giri against
Ding from the online Chessable Masters in 2022. Giri got nowhere in that
game and Nepomniachtchi got nothing today and when the players repeated
the position was dynamically balanced.
After worryingly nervy behaviour in the first two games
Ding Liren looked much more like his old self today. Friend’s had rallied round
in the last few days he said and he spent much more time at the board. Hopefully
he’s now fully into the match.
Ding Liren: “I was not happy with the result. I was trying to play for win at some point, but I couldn’t find a way to break through. So, I think a draw is a decent result for both of us.”
Score Nepomniachtchi 2 Ding Liren 1. Best of 14
Game 4 Thursday 13th April 10am BST. Ding has the white pieces.
World Chess Championship Commentary Game 3 2023
| WCh Shanghai Vladivostok | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nepomniachtchi, Ian | – | Ding, Liren | ½-½ | 49 | C85 | Ruy Lopez Steenwijker Defence |
| Ding, Liren | – | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | 0-1 | 29 | E10 | Blumenfeld Counter Gambit |
| Nepomniachtchi, Ian | – | Ding, Liren | ½-½ | 30 | D35 | QGD Exchange |
| WCh Astana (KAZ), 09-29 i 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Ti | NAT | Rtng | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Total | Perf |
| Nepomniachtchi, Ian | g | RUS | 2795 | ½ | 1 | ½ | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 2 | 2913 |
| Ding, Liren | g | CHN | 2788 | ½ | 0 | ½ | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 2670 |
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