Ding Liren

Global Chess League (GCL), a joint venture between Tech Mahindra and FIDE, today announced the complete list of players for the upcoming inaugural edition. The first season of the Global Chess League will be held at the Dubai Chess &…

Satheesh Vellinezhi | Photo Credit: Satheesh Vellinezhi You know what is the biggest problem with us Indians? Okay, okay, don’t answer that, this is a short column, no point starting something we can’t finish, (which is the slogan the…

Ding Liren. | Photo Credit: AP Tell me, Grandmaster, how can a Western European Grandmaster lose to a Chinaman?Dutch Grandmaster and author Jan Hein Donner thus asked Gudmundur Sigurjonsson, an Icelandic player, during the Chess Olympiad…

China’s Ding Liren smiles while speaking 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 thrilling finale. He takes over the…

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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 sequence of events. Thirty-year-old Ding won…

When Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren face off on Sunday in the first game of the world chess championship, their matchup — tinged with politics — will play out in the shadow of an absent rival: Magnus Carlsen. Carlsen, a Norwegian ranked…

World champion finally explains why he pulled out of match versus AmericanPUNE: Magnus Carlsen's reasons why he feels that Hans Niemanncheats: "unusual" progress in over-the-board chess, the 19-year-old world No. 49 American "wasn't tense…

চেসেবল মাস্টার্স অনলাইন টুর্নামেন্টের ফাইনালে পরাজিত হলেন তরুণ ভারতীয় গ্র্যান্ডমাস্টার রমেশবাবু প্রজ্ঞানন্ধা। শুক্রবার মেল্টওয়াটার চ্যাম্পিয়নস চেস ট্যুর বিশ্বের দুই নম্বর ডিং লিরেনের কাছে কঠিন টাই-ব্রেকারে শেষ পর্যন্ত পরাজিত হয়েছেন…

Young Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa went down fighting to world No.2 Ding Liren in the tie-break of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters 2022…