D Gukesh and Ding Liren will battle in the final classical game - Game 14 - of the World Chess Championship match on Thursday, December 12. With the scores tied at 6.5-6.5 after 13 classical games ...

“Ding Liren is the pride of China.” The match had been overshadowed from the start by the absence of Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian grandmaster who had held the world title since 2013.

Ding Liren became China’s first world chess champion in 2023 before hitting one of the most inexplicable slumps the game has ever seen. Now he’s locked in a tense battle to defend his crown.

In the fourth and final rapid tiebreak game Sunday in Kazakhstan, it was Ding who was victorious, winning the rapid tiebreak by 2.5 points to 1.5 to become China’s first world chess champion in ...

You may be excused if you don't quite recall the name, seeing as how GM Ding Liren has been largely missing in action since he defeated Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi . Skip to content.

Ding made a one-move blunder late in Game 14, which handed Gukesh the title-winning point and prevented tiebreakers. Ding Liren (R) and Gukesh Dommaraju compete in Game 1 on November 25, 2024.

China’s Ding Liren speaks after his victory in the FIDE World Chess Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 30, 2023. China’s Ding Liren beat Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi in a ...

China’s Ding Liren becomes world chess champion after beating Ian Nepomniachtchi in enthralling finale. ... In the fourth and final rapid tiebreak game Sunday, it was Ding who was victorious.

Ding Liren: "I think it's too early to play something like the Sicilian. Still, there are three games ahead. In the Candidates, I won in the last game, so, ...

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 ...

CHENNAI: During China's Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, chess was seen as a 'decadence' of the West. The result was an official ban on the game. Pos ...