The upcoming World Chess Championship match between China's Ding Liren and India's D Gukesh has sparked intrigue due to Ding's openness about his mental state. While some question if it's a ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Dommaraju unseated China's Ding Liren to become the new world chess champion. "Every chess player wants to experience this moment, and very few get the chance," Dommaraju said after the match.

Teenager Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest-ever undisputed classical chess world champion after beating Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 in their best-of-14 final in Singapore on Thursday.

In some ways, the $2.5 million showdown between Liren, a soft-spoken assassin from China, and Gukesh, an up-and-coming prodigy from India, should be the biggest world championship yet.

Never has a chess world championship titleholder seemed as vulnerable. On Monday, Ding Liren, the reigning world champion, will begin a match in Singapore to defend the title against the 18-year ...

Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest world chess champion Thursday when he beat champion Ding Liren in the final match of the World Chess Championship in Singapore. The 18-year-old phenom, who ...

Eighteen-year-old Indian grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh became the youngest-ever undisputed world chess champion by defeating 32-year-old Ding Liren of China in the final game of a 14-game championship.