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 ...

Hong Kong teenager Jamison Kao managed to draw a “super-crazy” chess game with mainland Chinese grandmaster and former world champion Ding Liren at the weekend – but the city’s No 1 still ...

Gukesh, who defeated Ding Liren in Singapore on Thursday to become ... Students from the Velammal Group, where Gukesh is pursuing his education, thronged the airport terminal holding placards ...

Chess has a new world champion – 30-year-old Ding Liren from China. He defeated Russia’a world no. 2 Ian Nepomniatchi to become only the 17 th player in chess history to wear this crown.

With nerves no longer a concern for him, teenaged Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh will hold the psychological edge against a slightly shaken defending champion Ding Liren when the two resume their ...

And he did, in the third game of the World championship against Ding Liren. He was trailing by a point with the first rest day of the match coming up. And he needed to win a game in the World ...

China's Ding Liren defeated India's Gukesh Dommaraju in their opening match of the final at the World Chess Championship in Singapore.