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2023 match · Tie-break game 1

World Chess Championship 2023, tie-break game 1: Queen's Pawn Game: Symmetrical Variation

Moves from the Lichess broadcast

Tie-break game 1 drawn in 35 moves

The game

  • Match: 2023 World Championship match (Ian Nepomniachtchi – Ding Liren), Astana
  • Date: 30 April 2023
  • White: Ding Liren · Black: Ian Nepomniachtchi
  • Result: ½–½ (Draw)
  • Opening: Queen's Pawn Game: Symmetrical Variation (D02)
  • Length: 35 moves
  • Time control: each player 25 min for the game, plus 10 s a move
  • Rapid tie-break, score after this game: Ian Nepomniachtchi 0.5–0.5 Ding Liren (classical games: Ian Nepomniachtchi 7–7 Ding Liren, counted apart)

Ding Liren (White) and Ian Nepomniachtchi played tie-break game 1 of the 2023 World Championship match in Astana on 30 April 2023.

The game opened 1.d4 Nf6: the Queen's Pawn Game: Symmetrical Variation (D02).

The game was drawn after 35 moves.

After 1 game of the rapid tie-break, the match was level at 0.5–0.5.

Game data: Lichess broadcasts · CC BY-SA 4.0

Replay the moves

After 35.Kg2 · ½–½

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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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