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Geopolitics, ‘toiletgate’ and drama: Chess is colourful and complex
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Chinese grandmaster Ding Liren will be defending his title at the world chess championship in Singapore on Nov 25.
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Devangshu Datta
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Chess is often used as a metaphor for other things. Politicians and diplomats supposedly play “3D chess” when they negotiate treaties, football coaches do it too.
But chess is just chess – a game rich and complex enough to wash out metaphors. On Nov 25, an 18-year-old Indian, Gukesh Dommaraju, challenges the 32-year-old world champion, Ding Liren of China, for the title at the Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore.
