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2024 match · Game 1

World Chess Championship 2024, game 1: French Defense: Classical Variation, Steinitz Variation

Moves from the Lichess broadcast

Ding takes game 1 in 42 moves and leads 1–0

The game

  • Match: 2024 World Championship match (Ding Liren – Gukesh D), Singapore
  • Date: 25 November 2024
  • White: Gukesh D · Black: Ding Liren
  • Result: 0–1 (Ding Liren won with Black)
  • Opening: French Defense: Classical Variation, Steinitz Variation (C11)
  • Length: 42 moves
  • Time control: each player 120 min for 40 moves, then 30 min for the rest of the game, plus 30 s a move from move 41
  • Classical games, score after game 1: Ding Liren 1–0 Gukesh D

Gukesh D (White) and Ding Liren played game 1 of the 2024 World Championship match in Singapore on 25 November 2024.

The game opened 1.e4 e6: the French Defense: Classical Variation, Steinitz Variation (C11).

Ding Liren won with Black after 42 moves.

After 1 game, Ding Liren led 1–0.

Game data: Lichess broadcasts · CC BY-SA 4.0

Replay the moves

After 42...Kh8 · 0–1

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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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