The first game of the world chess championship is tomorrow, Monday 24th Nov.
Ling and Gukesh play Monday Tuesday Wednesday. Then Friday Saturday Sunday.
Then the following week they play Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday Sunday Monday.
And the last two games are Wednesday Thursday.
Best of 14 games.
So we get about three weeks of chess.
With a tiebreaker if it’s seven all at the end AFAIK.
Ding…
Yes, what the heck was Ding doing yesterday?
He was on the verge of a win and then he forced a draw.
Maybe he’s betting against himself?! 
The day prior to that I saw Kasparov say that the Magnus Carlsen era was the end of the world chess championship.
Because although these two players are world class, neither of them is in the top five in the world, so they can’t really convincingly be positioned as the champion in the sense of being the best in the world.
They have just won this particular competition in classical chess.
Since someone who is by far the dominant player in the world has not entered the tournament for several years in a row its prestige has been greatly reduced.
In fact, now I would say that the world’s chess champion is whoever holds the highest ranking in the world during that year.
I’m not really so interested in who can win a particular tournament when large amounts of money and technology and national prestige are involved in the competition.
I’m mainly interested in who the best player in the world is and how they manage to do that - and neither of these things is determined by who wins the FIDE championship.
I’m also fascinated by what’s the best chess engine in the world at any particular time?
And how do those who operate that engine and create it make it do that?
More Donkey Kong than a good old Ding Dong.
I am pleased to have entered the top 5% of Puzzle players again on chess.com.
What a frenzy the chess world has been in of late.
Magnus created a stand-off over dress code, i.e. he forced FIDE to back down on his wearing of jeans at the rapid & blitz event in New York.
Then he persuaded Nepo to agree to the two of them sharing the Blitz world championship title, and FIDE agreed to this, despite it being against their rules!
And during that fiasco, he was filmed by someone trying to persuade Nepo to draw all the matches if FIDE did not agree to let them be joint world champions which many regard as match fixing.
Why Carlsen wanted to discredit FIDE was described by Hans Niemann beforehand in this interview:
See also this analysis of the Blitz fiasco, esp. the summary at the end:
I know no one else here seems to care very much about the chess world, but just in case there are any chess nuts out there, I’ve just after a couple of years managed to beat my previous PB in Puzzles on chess.com.
I now have over 2120.
My son and I entered our first ECF-ranked chess tournament recently and both won a game and got a bye - so a most welcome start to our experience of playing in rated events, i.e. we did not get zero wins. 
I logged in just to acknowledge your thread’s title! Brilliant… 
Might check it out, is there a good iPad app?
Yes, Mike, the best Chess app is chess.com.
You can download it from your phone app store.
Please let me know how it goes.
There’s a free version where you can find out whether you like it before you pay anything.
You can either do puzzles which tactical small pieces in various forms, or play games of any Time length to suit your preferences.
Certainly helps to keep the brain going!
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