Gukesh — Ding, World Championship 2024, Game 14

The decisive final game of the Singapore world championship match. Gukesh, needing a win to take the title outright before tiebreaks, ground down a level position over fifty-eight moves into a winning rook endgame. Ding’s defensive resources held for most of the game but cracked under the slow accumulation of small concessions.

The win made Gukesh the youngest classical world chess champion in history at eighteen years and ten months. A full annotated record of the game is forthcoming.