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 - FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2022 - Blitz Open - Almaty, Kazakhstan - December 30, 2022. Ian Nepomniachtchi of International Chess Federation makes a move during a game.

Carlsen, a 31-year-old Norwegian native, was expected to have a rematch next year with Ian Nepomniachtchi, the Russian who he defeated in the 2021 world championship.

Three top WR Chess players — Alireza Firouzja, Hikaru Nakamura, and Nepomniachtchi — arrived significantly late to their boards and lost their games. Following protests and deliberations, the ...

The World Chess Championship has reached a thrilling finale, with the title set to be decided Sunday by tiebreaks. World No.2 Ian Nepomniachtchi and China’s Ding Liren were 6½-6½ going into ...

Ding Liren becomes world chess champion after beating Ian Nepomniachtchi in enthralling finale By Aimee Lewis, CNN 2 min read Updated 1:39 PM EDT, Sun April 30, 2023 ...

The seventh game of the chess world championship took an unexpectedly dramatic turn when China’s Ding Liren froze under time pressure and lost to Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi from a potentially ...

AP Stanislav Filippov/AP China's Ding Liren plays against Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi during their tiebreaker of FIDE World Chess Championship in Astana By CNN Newsource Published April 30, 2023 6 ...