Hello and welcome to Game 14 of the world chess championship. China’s Ding Liren and India’s Gukesh Dommaraju are facing off in a best-of-14-games match for the winner’s share of a $2.5m (£1.98m) prize fund at the Equarius Hotel at Resorts World Sentosa, an island resort off Singapore’s southern coast. It’s the first time in the 138-year history of world championship matchplay that two men from Asia are competing for the sport’s most prestigious title.

Ding became China’s first men’s world chess champion by defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi last year on tiebreakers in Kazakhstan. Known for his solid and precise playing style based on creating small positional advantages from quiet openings, the 32-year-old from Zhejiang province is the highest-rated Chinese player of all time. A graduate of Peking University Law School, he once went unbeaten in 100 straight classical games, a record streak broken only by Magnus Carlsen in 2019.

Game 14 starts at 5pm local time, 9am in London, 4am in New York

Ding will have the white pieces for Game 14 and make the first move

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