Ding was just 16 years old in 2009 when he became China’s youngest-ever chess champion, which helped him earn the title of a ...

Three-year-old chess prodigy Anish Sarkar from Kolkata, India, has become the youngest-ever rated chess player with a FIDE ...

The title match between Indian grandmaster D Gukesh and reigning world champion Ding Liren will be played over a period of ...

Ding hasn’t had a classical win since Wijk Aan Zee at the beginning of this year and he takes on Gukesh in the World ...

The prize fund is a guaranteed US$2.5 million. Ding Liren was born on October 24, 1992 in Wenzhou, China, and learned the game from his mother at age four. At an early age he was coached by Chen ...

His mother has been supporting the family while ... In the World Championship up next, Gukesh will face off against defending ...

China's Ding Liren, 30 is the country's first winner of the World Chess Championship Ding Liren has become China's first men's world chess champion, after defeating Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi.

West Bengal's Anish Sarkar has thus overtaken compatriot Tejas Tiwari to become the world’s youngest player with a FIDE ...

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Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov doesn't consider the upcoming World Championship match between India's D Gukesh and China's Ding Liren as a contest between the world's top two players in the ...

China’s reigning world chess champion Ding Liren, who will defend his title against India’s D Gukesh in the championship to be played in Singapore. (AP) “Clearly, I’ll be the underdog ...