Yay..... #5 player vs #22 player. Oh sooo exciting. FIDE has screwed up the wc match again, we need to go back to the zonals, then the interzonals, then candidates matches. It's very possible to comfortably do that over a 2 year span.
That be true though lol
"official"
Wait, does that mean whoever wins get $2,500,000USD? That's a lot.
Haha indeed! Here's how it's split:
The prize fund allocated for the event is US$2.5 million.
Each player receives US$200,000 for each game won (including forfeits), and the remainder of the money is split equally.
If there is a tiebreak, however, the winner will receive US$1.3 million and the loser will receive US$1.2 million. That will also be the distribution if the final score is 7½–6½ with 13 decisive games or 8–6 with 14 decisive games.
gukesh may cook ding or ding may cook gukesh there is no inbetween MARK MA WORDS
How does this even make sense? World Championship should be between the 2 strongest chess players in the world currently...Ding is not even in top 20 and he is being allowed to play the world championship match
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It's starting 4:00 AM at where I am. I WONT BE ABLE TO WATCH IT!
Dang it 
My understanding of the prize fund of $2,500,000 is that each point is worth $200,000 until the end of the match, when any remaining money will be split equally, or when a win in tiebreaks, 8-6, or 7½-6½ will result in a split of $1,300,000 to the winner, and $1,200,000 to the loser.
Will new generation win? If yes than who so you think will challenge Gukesh?
With the invalid Candidates format, we don't realize anyone from this list could put Gukesh in his place. Even if he wins the WCC, it will be against weak opposition. You can see Caruana could easily punish the young lad. We have been cheated out of a real match between Nepo and Caruana.
Your analysis only includes rapid and blitz games played between Gukesh and Caruana, where Caruana does indeed have a +9=2-2 advantage, but in classical games Gukesh leads +2=5-1. Gukesh is not practicing yet for rapid and blitz, which he will probably begin does once he wins the classical World Championship. He won the Fide Circuit, which is designed for _Classical_ chess primarily, and the Candidates over Nakamura, Nepo, and Caruana by ½ point. The young man is incredibly talented.
You also knock Nakamura, who finished 2nd in the Candidates over Nepo and Caruana, so you are not being objective about the quality of Hikaru's play, who defeated Caruana in the Candidates, and only failed to qualify for the World Championship by stumbling against his nemesis, Vidit, and otherwise would have won it. And then you knock Le Quang Liem, a wonderful person, for going to the USA "devils," but you have no understanding of who Americans really are, both the best and worst of peoples intermixed in what could be called a civil war for the morality of God.
But he is chicken. A three year old attended the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz tournament, but Gukesh was so scared he wouldn't show up. He knows he would have gotten clobbered. Erigaisi would have embarrassed him. Dubov would have beaten him with the Philidor Defense.
Be fair, please. He is preparing to fight for the match of his life against Ding Liren, and surely could not afford to waste time now only 8(!) days away from the World Championship. He must neither reveal his preparation ahead of time, and learn more about Ding's tendencies to react to them.
He is preparing to fight for the match of his life against Ding Liren
That proves he is not good enough. A real champion should be able to walk in like Carlsen late to the board and win.
Unfortunately, it is obvious that you are against or don’t like D Gukesh winning. You may recall that in the World Chess Olympiad held at Budapest recently, Ding avoided the much awaited clash with Gukesh. The resultant match between India and China with Wei yi playing on top board against Gukesh was The Game of the Olympiad..with Gukesh winning and sending the right message to all those matter in the world of Chess. Another few days left for the Championship to start…do not crib…Grapes are sour…….will follow up.
This will be the score
gukesh:0
ding:♾️