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The World Chess Championship 2023 is taking place from 7 April to 1 May 2023 to determine the new World Chess Champion. The match will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan and Chessdom.com will have daily live coverage with commentary by top GMs and computer analysis.

Good morning everyone and welcome to the live blog from day 1 of the Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Ding Liren, aka Nepo – Ding final match of the World Chess Championship 2023! We will cover all day long the events from Madrid, where the battles start today at 15:00 CET. The news will appear here on this live blog, time stamped at reverse chronological order.

Report by Dr. Dudayeff from Astana

Today is the opening ceremony of the long anticipated Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Ding Liren, aka Nepo – Ding final match of the World Chess Championship 2023. Chessdom will follow the events from Astana, with expert commentary and news, in a minute-by-minute live blog here.

Magnus Carlsen’s last event as World Champion ended in failure on Thursday as a dramatic match-losing mouseslip against Hikaru Nakamura dumped him out of the Chessable Masters. Carlsen and his old rival, the two big beasts of online chess, had gone toe-to-toe over two drawn rapid games before the Losers Bracket Final was left hanging on a tense Armageddon play-off.

Parham Maghsoodloo – Vladimir Kramnik is 1/2 final game from the Asia and Oceania edition of the Armageddon Championship. It is is an 8-player double-elimination tournament taking place in Berlin, Germany. Each match consists of two 3+2 blitz games and, if the scores are level, an Armageddon decider.

Nodirbek Abdusattorov – D Gukesh is 1/2 final game from the Asia and Oceania edition of the Armageddon Championship. It is is an 8-player double-elimination tournament taking place in Berlin, Germany. Each match consists of two 3+2 blitz games and, if the scores are level, an Armageddon decider.

The other 1/2 final games is Parham Maghsoodloo – Vladimir Kramnik

More tournaments :

Vladimir Kramnik – Daniil Dubov is 1/4 final game from the Asia and Oceania edition of the Armageddon Championship. It is is an 8-player double-elimination tournament taking place in Berlin, Germany. Each match consists of two 3+2 blitz games and, if the scores are level, an Armageddon decider.

The other 1/4 final games are :

Parham Maghsoodloo – Murali Karthikeyan is 1/4 final game from the Asia and Oceania edition of the Armageddon Championship. It is is an 8-player double-elimination tournament taking place in Berlin, Germany. Each match consists of two 3+2 blitz games and, if the scores are level, an Armageddon decider.

The other 1/4 final games are :

Yangyi Yu – D Gukesh is 1/4 final game from the Asia and Oceania edition of the Armageddon Championship. It is is an 8-player double-elimination tournament taking place in Berlin, Germany. Each match consists of two 3+2 blitz games and, if the scores are level, an Armageddon decider.

The other 1/4 final games are :

Nodirbek Abdusattorov – Santosh Gujrathi Vidit is 1/4 final game from the Asia and Oceania edition of the Armageddon Championship. It is is an 8-player double-elimination tournament taking place in Berlin, Germany. Each match consists of two 3+2 blitz games and, if the scores are level, an Armageddon decider.

The other 1/4 final games are :