In the eighth game of the World Chess Championship, D Gukesh and Ding Liren ended in a draw. Both players have four points each, with 3.5 points remaining to claim the title.

Gukesh's act of refusing a draw while being a worse position earned him praise from legends like Susan Polgar who called the Indian a "tank moving forward to bulldoze and destroy his opponent".

Call it ambition, call it false optimism, or just the exuberance of youth, it made for a fascinating game 8 of the FIDE World Championship.

Gukesh and Liren played out yet another exciting draw in game eight of the summit clash in Singapore on Wednesday.

Gukesh and Ding Liren, the reigning champion, battled to their fifth consecutive draw in the eighth round of the World Chess Championship in Singapore. The match remains tied at 4 points each after six draws overall.

D Gukesh won Game 3 on time after 37 moves against Ding Liren. The World Championship match is tied at 1.5-1.5 after three games. Gukesh bounced back after losing Game 1 of the World Championship match.

Ding Liren vs D Gukesh in the 2024 FIDE World Championship has now entered its second half and it was ushered there by a marathon of a game 7 that Gukesh nearly had in his grasp. Nearly, though, as Aaditya Narayan puts it here is never going to win you a World Championship and to do that the young Indian challenger needs to shrug off the vast disappointment of having missed out on a golden opportunity to make the current 3.