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?
