Ding Liren becomes China's first male world chess champion

Ding Liren becomes China's first male world chess champion

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Category : Sports Published on: May 03 2023

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  • Ding Liren has become China's first men's world chess champion, after defeating Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi.
  • Ding, 30, won a rapid-play tiebreaker after 14 first-stage games at the World Chess Championship in Kazakhstan.
  • Ding takes over as winner of the World Chess Championship from Norway’s Magnus Carlsen, who chose not to defend his title after a 10-year reign.
  • In 2009, he became China's youngest chess champion at national level.
  • Within 12 years, he had become the highest-ranked Chinese player in the world rankings, reaching second place.
  • Ding was undefeated in classical chess for 100 games from August 2017 to November 2018. 
  • This was the longest unbeaten streak in top-level chess history until Carlsen surpassed it in 2019.
  • China has dominated women's chess tournaments since the 1990s, when Xie Jun became the first Chinese person to claim a world title in 1991 in the women's game.
  • No Chinese player had ever previously won the World Chess Championship, in which both men and women can compete.
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