Liren's White matches

One of the quickest draws so far, just 23 moves. The world champion had a miniscule advantage but didn't push; Game 4: A draw from a mile away. Gukesh wasn't bothered by the opening and held on very easily; Game 6: The Chinese had a small advantage throughout the game but it felt like something Gukesh always had under control; Game 8: Both players made mistakes when they had winning chances.

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that. He preferred to keep playing in the hope of turning water into wine. But, finally, there was a three-fold repetition after more than 65 moves of quality chess. The jeopardy is now maximum and the margin of error zero with just one Classical game remaining. If last match doesn't see a decisive result, final will go into tie-breaks with shorter time controls on Friday.