Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history
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#2It was painful watching Ding Liren blunder the rook and realize what he had done.
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#4At 18, this is no small thing. Kasparov was 22, I don't see Gukesh's record being broken for a long while
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#5For being the headline, they sure hid his age pretty well.
Not at the opening paragraph nor end of the article, nor photo captions near the top or bottom.
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And scanning for numbers is useless since most of the article is chess moves written out.
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#6It was painful watching Ding Liren blunder the rook and realize what he had done.
i felt for ding, even though i was cheering for gukesh.
i was so sure it was going to go into tiebreaks.
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#7Terrible time management from Ding Liren in the most critical game of the match, leading to a very simple blunder. Painful to witness.
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#8Spoiler alert! I was planning to watch the recap without knowing the outcome, but I'm not that invested. Congratulations to the new champion.
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#9It was painful watching Ding Liren blunder the rook and realize what he had done.
It was. But he had 9 minutes vs more than an hour for Gukesh. The entire match has been Ding defending miraculously, I thought it was a matter of time before he eventually failed. The fact that it happened on the last moves of the last game, it's definitely hard for Ding, but fair for Gukesh IMO.
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> Ah yes, chess, the game where people love to remember sequences.
You can remember openings. From the middle game, you have to "play".