Ding vs. Gukesh World Championship final game (Ding's blunder and resignation explained)

Dear Chess Friends,

An incredible blunder happened in the final game of Ding vs. Gukesh World Championship Match, so I made a video about it, starting with the critical position and I explain why Ding resigned at the end. You can watch the video with a FREE SUBSCRIPTION on my Patreon channel here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ding-vs-gukesh-117833071.

The main topics what you can learn from this video:

- Simplifying to a winning endgame

- The importance of the blockade

- 2 pawns vs. 1 pawn situations in pawn endgames

- Never feel bad if you made a huge blunder, even the best players do it sometimes!

I hope you'll find it useful. If you like it and you want to see my private educational videos, you can choose a membership on my Patreon channel. I upload 4-8 hours of videos / month and you can learn about openings, strategies, tactics and endgames, too. I also upload daily puzzles in 4 levels every day.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to write to me.

Kind regards,

Gabor

I'm being honest, but even I could've defended that endgame from Ding's side even if my opponent is Gukesh, it was dead draw until the rook trade

Yes, I totally understand your point of view. But as I mentioned it in the video, just try to imagine yourself in their situation...they had been playing for 2.5 weeks, it's really exhausting and it was a really important event, so they were really nervous. Overall, they played at a really high level.

When I stress too much I always mess up

Same thing in any game

I'm much better when I'm chill

Me too

Yes, it's totally logical. When you are stressed, your adrenalin level is growing and it blocks your brain, that's why you cannot perform very well when you are too nervous.

Whoa-budding scientist?

yess you''re right

For sure