Last spring, Ding Liren was on top of the chess world. A 30-year-old super grandmaster, Ding had displayed nerves of steel to sweep aside his Russian opponent and become China’s first-ever world ...
Ding Liren became China’s first world chess champion on Sunday after a rapid-play tiebreak victory over Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi in Kazakhstan. Ding, 30, takes over as winner of the World ...
The stalemate continued in the Chess World Championship match between defending champion Ding Liren and challenger D Gukesh as they played out a sixth successive draw on Thursday, December 5.
India's Gukesh Dommaraju defeated China's Ding Liren to become the youngest chess world champion in history. The 18-year-old surpassed Russia's Garry Kasparov's record, after he won the title as a ...