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 ...

Before the start of the tournament, Carlsen had not just questioned Gukesh’s credentials in rapid and blitz, but had gone as ...

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.

India’s chess prodigy D Gukesh, now 19, has become not only the youngest undisputed World Chess Champion but also one of the ...

Garry Kasparov has warned D Gukesh of the dangers of complacency as a part of his advice to the young Indian chess star, who ...

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.

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 epic monthlong title match with Russian rival Ian ...

Dommaraju unseated China's Ding Liren to become the new world chess champion. "Every chess player wants to experience this moment, and very few get the chance," Dommaraju said after the match.

Ding Liren became China’s first world chess champion on Sunday after a rapid-play tiebreak victory over Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi in Kazakhstan. Ding, 30, ...

“Ding Liren is the pride of China.” The match had been overshadowed from the start by the absence of Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian grandmaster who had held the world title since 2013.

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 ...