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.

Challenger D Gukesh and defending champion Ding Liren of China are locked at 3.5 points each after seven games in Sing

World champion Ding Liren barely survived succumbing to his second defeat in Game 7 after being "outplayed" by Gukesh.