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May 23 (Reuters) - Reigning world champion Ding Liren and top-ranked Magnus Carlsen will participate in next month's inaugural franchise-based Global Chess League (GCL), organisers said on Tuesday.

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For Ding, the third-ranked player, it was the chance to bring the first world championship to China, and fulfill the promise he’d shown ever since he stunned the chess world, at sixteen, by ...

Ding prevailed in a rapid-play tiebreaker against Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia. He is the first Chinese man to hold the world title. By Dylan Loeb McClain Chess is considered the ultimate game of ...

Mr. Ding is also the second Asian player to win the world chess title. India’s Viswanathan Anand was champion from 2007 to 2013 before losing to Mr. Carlsen.

China's Ding Liren was crowned on Sunday as the 17th world chess champion in a tense match against Russian-born Ian Nepomniachtchi in Astana, Kazakhstan, in the last chapter of an odds-defying ...

Chess grandmasters and other players said a secret online account has been found of world championship contender Ding Liren's preparation as he trails by a point in his match in Astana, Kazakhstan ...

Ding Liren became China’s first world chess champion on Sunday after a rapid-play tie-break victory over Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi in Kazakhstan.