After three weeks and 18 contests, the chess world championship came down to the final minute of the tiebreaker on Sunday as China’s Ding Liren defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi in a wild conclusion in ...
A victory by Ian Nepomniachtchi or Ding Liren would come with political overtones. But Magnus Carlsen’s absence is the talk of the final. By Dylan Loeb McClain When Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren ...
Gukesh will ‘never be a player like Magnus Carlsen’, the Indian grandmaster's chief trainer Grzegorz Gajewski said after the 18 year old won the world chess championship. D Gukesh’s win against Ding ...
Indian grandmaster D Gukesh cited the example of Magnus Carlsen after overcoming his slow start in the World Chess Championship match against Ding Liren. Gukesh had lost the first game with white ...
China has its first official world chess champion, as Grandmaster Ding Liren defeated Russian rival Ian Nepomniachtchi in a playoff Sunday after their 14-game title match in Astana, Kazakhstan ended ...
May 23 (Reuters) - Reigning world champion Ding Liren and top-ranked Magnus Carlsen will participate in next month's inaugural franchise-based Global Chess League (GCL), organisers said on Tuesday.
April 30 (Reuters) - 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 ...
One of the world’s biggest sporting competitions got underway Monday morning, with reigning champion Ding Liren taking game 1 of the World Chess Championship against 18-year-old phenom Gukesh ...
Ding prevailed in a rapid-play tiebreaker against Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia. He is the first Chinese man to hold the world title. By Dylan Loeb McClain Chess is considered the ultimate game of cold ...