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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.
(CNN) — 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. The 18 ...
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 ...
Dommaraju Gukesh, an 18-year-old Indian grandmaster, captured the World Chess Championship in Singapore on Thursday by winning the last game of his match against the reigning champion, Ding Liren ...
D Gukesh and Ding Liren remained tied at 2.5-2.5 after an intense Game 5 draw in the World Chess Championship, with Gukesh's resilient defense countering Ding's calculated aggression to keep the ...
By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — 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 ...
Ding Liren will retain the World Championship crown if he manages to beat D Gukesh on Thursday, but a draw will force the match into tiebreakers, which involves matches with shorter time controls.
It must be a giddy feeling to be associated with Indian chess right now, as Divya Deshmukh joins the list of title holders ...