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2023 match · Game 12

World Chess Championship 2023, game 12: Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System

Moves from the Lichess broadcast

Ding takes game 12 in 38 moves — level at 6–6

The game

  • Match: 2023 World Championship match (Ian Nepomniachtchi – Ding Liren), Astana
  • Date: 26 April 2023
  • White: Ding Liren · Black: Ian Nepomniachtchi
  • Result: 1–0 (Ding Liren won with White)
  • Opening: Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System (D04)
  • Length: 38 moves
  • Time control: each player 120 min for 40 moves, then 60 min for 20 moves, then 15 min for the rest of the game, plus 30 s a move from move 61
  • Classical games, score after game 12: Ian Nepomniachtchi 6–6 Ding Liren

Ding Liren (White) and Ian Nepomniachtchi played game 12 of the 2023 World Championship match in Astana on 26 April 2023.

The game opened 1.d4 Nf6: the Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System (D04).

Ding Liren won with White after 38 moves.

After 12 games, the match was level at 6–6.

Game data: Lichess broadcasts · CC BY-SA 4.0

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After 38.d6 · 1–0

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Game data: Lichess broadcasts · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Game data: Lichess broadcast database (files of the match month), licence CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes by Chess Opening Scores: we picked the games of the match by both players' FIDE ids, the broadcast name and the match dates, drew the board with our own code, wrote the report from the game data with fixed sentences, counted the score from the finished games and added the opening name and ECO code from the free Lichess opening list and, where this game reached one of our opening pages, club statistics. The sections marked "Game data: Lichess broadcasts" are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Opening names: lichess-org/chess-openings (CC0), matched by position.

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