5 hours ago Luke Humphries sprays fans with water after whistling can't stop him beating Luke Littler

Darts ace Luke Humphries celebrated winning the 2024 Players Championship final by spraying fans in attendance with water after beating Luke Littler 11-7

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7 hours ago Ding Liren v Gukesh Dommaraju: World Chess Championship 2024 Game 1 – live updates

Ding and Gukesh face off for $2.5m in SingaporeExplainer: all your pre-match questions, answeredBluesky Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email himOur Leonard Barden has filed his final dispatch ahead of today’s opening game. Barden, who’s written the Guardian’s chess column every week since September 1955, doesn’t divert from the general consensus in his assessment of the match.The preliminaries are nearly over: who will win? I expect Gukesh to be cautious in the first few games, then to probe and push hard in the middle of the match. Ding’s 2024 form has been so wretched that it is difficult to see how he can keep his title. A 7.5-4.5 margin for Gukesh looks about right. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago How to watch World Darts Championship draw as field confirmed after Luke Humphries win

The 2024/25 Paddy Power World Darts Championship field has been confirmed with the draw for the end of year event at the Alexandra Palace set to take place later today

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23 hours ago F1 Driver Standings 2024: Max Verstappen wins title as McLaren close in on Constructors' Championship

Red Bull driver seals fourth consecutive Formula One championship

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24 hours ago Max Verstappen hails title as his best – and insists he is staying at Red Bull

‘For 70% of the season we weren’t the fastest’Christian Horner: ‘Max is one of the greats in the sport’Max Verstappen hailed his fourth Formula One world championship as his best yet while his team principal, Christian Horner, said the title made Verstappen one of the greats of the sport.“The beginning was a bit messy,” Verstappen said in Las Vegas of the furore that engulfed Red Bull before the season started. “But I’m quite calm in those situations. It’s very difficult to disturb me with anything. I’m very focused on the racing side of things. I forget about everything, even positive, negative stuff. And I just focus on what’s ahead of me.” Continue reading...

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32 hours ago From Bobby Fischer to Magnus Carlsen: 22 of the most famous world chess championship games

The 138-year history of the world chess championship is filled with games of rare precision, imagination and brilliance. Go move by move through 22 of them belowExplainer: World Chess Championship 2024From the middle of the 16th century, there have come down to us the names of chess players who have been widely regarded as the strongest of their time. The earliest of these was the Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura, after whom one of the most popular openings of modern times is named. Others who followed include the Calabrese Gioachino Greco, François-André Danican Philidor, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Alexander McDonnell, Howard Staunton, Adolf Anderssen, Mikhail Chigorin and Paul Morphy, each of whom are lionized for their contributions to the development of theory and strat...

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