The Russian chess player Ian Nepomniachtchi and the Chinese Ding Liren will play the World Championship of their discipline that is held in Astana (Kazakhstan) in the last of the maximum of 14 games that were scheduled, after both signed the tables in number 13 and are tied at 6.5 points.
Once the Asian matched the series the previous day in a duel that he took by taking advantage of his rival’s mistakes, this time he had a good opportunity to get ahead, although the inaccuracies ended up obscuring that advantage and encouraged to look for the equalizer after 3 hours and 39 movements.
Now the two contenders will have a day off and will face each other again on Saturday in the last of the matches. Liren will start with white and, in the event that both tie again, they will face each other in a tie break of four rapid games, which would later be followed by blitz games, blitz games and even a sudden death game in the event that one followed without impose on the other.
