It's Game 6 in the World Chess Championship as both India's D Gukesh and China's Ding Liren will push to take an advantage with the scores being level at 2.5 points each. The previous Game 5 ended up being a draw as reigning world champion Ding had a good chance to pile up the pressure but he missed on his advantage in the endgame.

The 2024 World Chess Championship remained finely poised Sunday after defending champion Ding Liren and teenage challenger Gukesh Dommaraju played out a thrilling 46-move draw. At his age, Gukesh is the youngest player in history to compete in the World Championship and he is looking to surpass Garry Kasparov as the youngest undisputed world chess champion.

Since Ding Liren was spotted sitting in his player’s lounge in an earlier game in a relaxed-looking state, fans aware of the “bing chilling” phrase adapted it to start referring to the world champion with the endearingly-coined Ding Chillin’.

At one point of game 5 of the FIDE World Championship, Ding Liren seemed to be favourite to force a result, but D Gukesh's defensive nous ensured that it would be honours shared to keep the score tied at 2.5 - 2.5.

SINGAPORE: In an intense Game 6 of the World Chess Championship, the 18-year-old Indian challenger D Gukesh held defending champion Ding Liren of China to a draw with black pieces to remain level on points here Sunday.

India's D Gukesh held reigning champion Ding Liren to a draw in the sixth game of the World Chess Championship in Singapore on Sunday. This was the third draw in a row between the two players, leaving the score level at 3.