It was a fitting finale for the unlikely coronation of the 17th world chess champion: The only time Chinese GM Ding Liren led in his ... Qd5+ Kh7 46. Qe4+ Rg6! — an extraordinarily gutsy move ...

China has its first official world chess champion, as Grandmaster Ding Liren defeated Russian rival ... Qd5+ Kh7 46. Qe4+ Rg6 47. Qf5 c4 48. h4 Qd3 49. Qf3 Rf6 50. Qg4 c3 51.

After one of the most dramatic and combative title matches for decades, Ding Liren became China’s first ... in the fourth tiebreak game was 46...Rg6! self-pinning his own rook against his ...

Ding Liren showed the ambition in his heart with ... refusal to go for the threefold repetition on the 46th move (playing Rg6 instead) and the picturesque march of ‘a’, ‘c’ and ‘g ...

Last spring, Ding Liren was on top of the chess world. A 30-year-old super grandmaster, Ding had displayed nerves of steel to sweep aside his Russian opponent and become China’s first-ever world ...

Gukesh Dommaraju, the 18-year-old chess prodigy from India, has unseated China's Ding Liren to become the new world chess champion. Born in 2006, Dommaraju is the youngest world champion of all ...

D Gukesh won his first-ever FIDE World Championship game after defending champion Ding Liren ran out of time in the 37th move. The victory meant 18-year-old Gukesh drew level overall in the tie ...

India on Thursday hailed chess prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju after the 18-year-old became the youngest world champion with a thrilling final win over China's Ding Liren. Gukesh surpassed a record held ...

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 ...

India’s 18-year-old prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju capped his meteoric rise by becoming the youngest world chess champion in history after defeating Ding Liren 7½-6½ in a tense championship in ...