Chess-China's Ding Liren defies odds to become world champion

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 the rapid chess playoff by 2.5 points to 1.5, capitalizing on Nepomniachtchi's mistakes in time trouble in the last of the shorter-format games, following the pair's 7-7 tie in a psychological battle across 14 longer "classical" games. "One Ding to rule em all," fellow grandmaster Anish Giri wrote on Twitter in honour of the new champion.

Ding Liren defies odds to become China's first World Chess

World Chess Championship 2023 Highlights: Ding Liren beats

Sleeping pills, thrills and a new king: the inside story of the

Ding Liren becomes first-ever Chinese male world chess champion

Ding Liren wins big for China - Stabroek News

Ding Liren defies odds to become China's first world chess

Ding Liren wins big for China - Stabroek News

World Chess Championship 2023 - Wikipedia

AsiaOne Chess News, Get the Latest Chess Breaking News at AsiaOne

Gold Coast Social Chess

Ding edges tiebreak to become first Chinese male crowned world

Ding Liren becomes first-ever Chinese male world chess champion