Chinese grandmaster and current World Chess Champion
🇮🇳 Gukesh D wins the #FIDECandidates 2024 and the right to challenge the reigning World Champion 🇨🇳 Ding Liren for the title! 🏆
Congratulations! 👏
📷 Michal Walusza
Indian teenager becomes youngest challenger for world chess title, will face reigning champion from China
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History in the making ✨Gukesh becomes the youngest-ever Challenger, and will face Ding Liren for the World Title 👑 A proud moment for India and a testament to ... Show more #FIDECandidates
Tight Race: Three Co-Leaders Emerge in 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament: As the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament enters its penultimate stage, the competition ...
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How Gukesh was welcomed at 3 am after Candidates: 80 school kids, posse of cameramen, officials and an emotional mother
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#BSEditorial | Champion nation#DommarajuGukesh would be the youngest player to ever win the world title if he does put it across Ding Liren ... Show more #chess
Chess Candidates Tournament: Look, who else can look?: A highly dramatic final round: The 17-year-old Gukesh fights for a draw, wins the Candidates Tournament ...
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Is “Nepo” making chess history at the Candidates Tournament?: Who can play against China's Ding Liren for the World Cup title? The Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi is ...
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#ExpressSports | D Gukesh, R Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi - will one of these Indian players break through a field of 8 to take on China's Ding Liren at the next ... Show more #WorldChessChampionship #chess indianexpress.com/section/sports/chess/
The race to challenge Ding Liren starts today with Round 1 of the FIDE Candidates Tournament at 2:30pm ET | 20:30 CEST | Midnight IST! www.chess.com/events/2024-fide-candidates-chess-tournament/games
Congratulations to Magnus Carlsen on winning the GRENKE Chess Classic title for a 3rd time! Final report: www.chess.com/news/view/2024-grenke-chess-classic-final
Richard Rapport hits back after losing 2 games in a row to beat none other than World Champion Ding Liren! www.chess.com/events/2024-grenke-chess-classic-round-robin/07/Rapport_Richard-Ding_Liren
The #FIDECandidates has officially commenced today with the opening ceremony!
The tournament takes place in Toronto, Canada, from April 3 to 23 ... Show more candidates2024.fide.com/
Carlsen Wins Round-Robin As Ding Suffers: Magnus Carlsen beat Vincent Keymer to wrap up victory in the GRENKE Chess Classic round-robin and set up a title match ...
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Rapport Extends Leads As Carlsen, Keymer, MVL Miss Huge Chances: Richard Rapport leads the GRENKE Chess Classic by a full point after scoring 1 ...
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Rapport Beats Carlsen To Grab Early GRENKE Chess Classic Lead: Richard Rapport pounced on a blunder by world no. 1 Magnus Carlsen, then drew against World ...
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Introducing you to the players of the FIDE Candidates 2024! 🍁Ian Nepomniachtchi - 2023 Match Runner-up
This will be the third consecutive Candidates ... Show more
Congratulations to 19-year-old Nodirbek Abdusattorov on winning the Prague Masters with a round to spare — and also moving above Ding Liren to World no ... Show more www.chess.com/events/2024-prague-chess-festival-masters/08/Abdusattorov_Nodirbek-Maghsoodloo_Parham
Madrid 2022 - The Second Coming of Ian NepomniachtchiThis event stood out because the second place mattered almost equally as the first ... Show more #FIDECandidates
🇺🇿 Nodirbek Abdusattorov wins the Prague Masters with a round to spare! 🔥 🤩
Nodirbek has scored 6/8 and, with 1½ ahead of the pack ... Show more #FIDEratings
Berlin 2018 – A New American Hope
After the World Rapid and Blitz Championships, held in Berlin three years earlier, chess returned to the German capital with ... #FIDECandidates
Why Candidates is a tournament of immense difficulty in the world of chess: Candidates chess tournament has always been a winner-takes-all event ...
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Anish Giri moves above Ding Liren to world no. 4 after a crushing win over Vladislav Artemiev in Round 1 of the Shenzhen Masters! chess.com/events/2024-shenzhen-longgang-chess-masters/01/Giri_Anish-Artemiev_Vladislav
Abdusattorov Triumphs in Prague Masters, Ascends to World No.4: The Prague Masters witnessed a remarkable display of skill and determination as 19-year-old GM ...
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Candidates Tournament: Slow is not boring: Chess is booming - and changes. It gets faster and wilder. But at the Candidates Tournament ...
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Chess: Ding Liren: The Enigmatic World Champion: Ding Liren replaced Magnus Carlsen as world chess champion a year ago, after which the Chinese disappeared ...
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Paid articlePaid Chess: Who beats the king?: The Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship begins in Toronto this week. Who can challenge world champion Ding Liren? ...
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Paid articlePaid Carlsen-Caruana Final Starts With Draw As Firouzja, Keymer Win: Magnus Carlsen missed a chance as he drew with Black against Fabiano Caruana in Game 1 of the ...
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Lots of heads are smoking over the chessboards in Karlsruhe: Karlsruhe was the venue for one of the world's largest chess tournaments at Easter. More than 2 ...
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Who has what it takes to challenge the reigning chess champions Ding Liren and Ju Wenjun? 🔥
♟️ This April, the journey unfolds in the heart of 🇨🇦 Toronto at ... Show more #FIDECandidates
D Gukesh Beats Magnus Carlsen, Joint 2nd After Day 1 Of Freestyle Chess | Chess News
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The Freestyle GOAT Challenge starts today, with a rapid tournament that will decide the pairings for the classical knockout ... Show more www.chess.com/events/2024-freestyle-chess-goat-challenge-round-robin/games
Gukesh Beats Carlsen As Keymer Takes Early Freestyle Chess Lead: Gukesh beat the GOAT, Magnus Carlsen, after whom the 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T ...
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Weissenhaus Chess Challenge: Gukesh loses to Caruana; Firouzja beats Carlsen: Gukesh had a slight advantage in the middle game against Caruana but that slipped ...
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Chess: What's wrong with thing?: World chess champion Ding Liren loses game after game at a tournament on the Baltic Sea. Nobody understands why ...
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Paid articlePaid Will the premiere now be followed by the World Cup in Germany?: The new freestyle chess tournament on the Baltic Sea has set standards. The interest was enormous ...
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Chess stars compete in opulent seclusion: Carlsen, Ding and six other players participate in an innovative Chess960 tournament held at a luxurious German resort
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International chess elite meets at Gut Weissenhaus in Wangels: At Gut Weissenhaus in Schleswig-Holstein, the chess elite duel with Magnus Carlsen ...
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Lübeckers at the Super Chess Tournament in Weissenhaus: The German U14 team champion meets the top stars on the Baltic Sea. Magnus Carlsen ...
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Paid articlePaid ✅ The youngest player to reach the World Cup✅ Qualified for the 2024 Candidates
✅ Beats the World Champion, Ding Liren, with the black pieces
✅ Becomes ... Show more
World Champion 🇨🇳 Ding Liren battles it out against Women's World Champion 🇨🇳 Ju Wenjun in round 13 of Tata Steel Chess!
Carlsen, Ding To Clash As GRENKE Chess Classic Returns: World Champion Ding Liren and World Rapid Champion Magnus Carlsen top the field for the GRENKE Chess ...
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🇫🇷 Alireza Firouzja (2759) takes down Current World Champion 🇨🇳 Ding Liren (2780) in round 8 of the #TataSteelChess Masters tournament ... Show more
Ian Nepomniachtchi beats Ding Liren in round 10 of Tata Steel Masters!
♟️ This is the first decisive game between the World Champion and the 2023 Challenger ... Show more #TataSteelChess
Firouzja Joins Leaders; Abdusattorov Falls Behind In Tata Steel Chess Masters: GM Alireza Firouzja's topsy-turvy Tata Steel Chess Tournament continued on ...
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Praggnanandhaa surpasses Viswanathan Anand as No. 1 Indian chess player: Teenaged Indian chess prodigy R. Praggnanandhaa defeats world champion Ding Liren ...
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Ding Liren Ready For Tata: 'I Feel Much Better Than Before': World Champion Ding Liren seems ready and eager to return to the chessboard for his first ...
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The prestigious Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2024 kicked off today in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, and will last until January 28! ♟️🇳🇱
🔥 The Masters tournament ... Show more #TataSteelChess tatasteelchess.com/
Abdusattorov, Gukesh Lead At Tata Steel Chess Masters: With three rounds to go, GMs Gukesh Dommaraju and Nodirbek Abdusattorov lead the Tata Steel Chess ...
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2023 was a historic year for chess, as we welcomed a new World Champion, 🇨🇳 Ding Liren! 👑 ♟️
⚔️ Ding beat Ian Nepomniachtchi in the tiebreaks of an ... Show more #NepoDing #2023throwback
2023: Ding Liren becomes World Champion & Ju Wenjun retains Women’s World Champion title
The world #1 and 5-time World Champion, Magnus Carlsen, said ... Show more #FIDE100 #WomenInChess
Chess summit in Weissenhaus: This is how the super tournament with Magnus Carlsen works
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Paid articlePaid Candidates 2024: Magnus Carlsen formally declines invite to compete, Nijat Abasov to join Gukesh, Pragg and Vidit
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2024 Tata Steel Chess: World Champion Ding Returns, Carlsen Missing: World Champion GM Ding Liren will make his return to the global chess stage in Wijk aan Zee ...
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Mikhail Tal, the 8th World Champion (1960–1961), was born on this day in 1936.
Did you know that the “Magician from Riga” held the record for the longest ... Show more
Anand weighs in on Chennai Grand Masters controversy, says tournament within FIDE rules
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Magnus Carlsen returns: Why the world champion is interested in chess again: Magnus Carlsen resigned as world champion - Classical chess was too boring for him ...
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Paid articlePaid Chess at the Weissenhaus Resort: Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge with Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren, Vincent Keymer
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Paid articlePaid Wesley So wins his tiebreak against Jules Moussard and advances to the last 32 of the #FIDEWorldCup .
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How China became No 1 in chess and what it means: the world will ‘look at Chinese people differently’
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Paid articlePaid Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa: From wonderkid to a chess great in the waiting: For someone, who took to chess just because his parents wanted him and his sister to ...
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Quick Glance: Indian Chess Prodigy Praggnanandhaa Challenges Magnus Carlsen in World Cup Final
- 18-year-old Praggnanandhaa from India defeats the world number one.
- Carlsen reaches the final after defeating Nijat Abasov over the weekend.
- Carlsen, 32, participates in the World Cup final for the first time, organized by the International Chess Federation (FIDE).
- Praggnanandhaa defeated Carlsen at the Airthings Masters last year, an online rapid tournament, becoming only the third Indian to defeat the Norwegian grandmaster.
Praggnanandhaa overcomes compatriot Arjun Erigaisi in World Cup quarters in blitz after repeated games failed to find a winner
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Richard Rapport: ‘Helping a contender at World Chess Championship is like taking care of a child’
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Ding Liren reveals name of another GM who helped him become world champion: There is reportedly also a proposal for Ding Liren to take on world no 1 Magnus ...
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Ding Liren becomes World Chess Champion: https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.jshttps://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-story-1.0.js Ding Liren becomes World Chess Champion ...
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Quick Glance: Ding Liren of China wins the World Chess Championship in dramatic fashion, succeeding Magnus Carlsen.
- Ding Liren won the title, which Magnus Carlsen declined to defend, with a stunning tiebreaker victory over Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi.
- Ding Liren defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi in the World Chess Championship.
- On Sunday, the pair competed in a speed-chess tiebreaker to break a tie in their race to succeed Magnus Carlsen, who stated last year that he would not defend the title he had won five times in a succession.
- Ding, 30, had fewer than 60 seconds left on the clock when he pounced all over Nepomniachtchi in the fourth game of the tiebreaker, despite having the black pieces.
World Chess Championship 2023 Highlights: Ding Liren beats Nepomniachtchi to become 1st world champion from China
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World Chess Championship 2023 Game 12 As It Happened: Ding Liren beats Ian Nepomniachtchi in game of twists and turns, draws level on points
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China’s Ding Liren becomes world chess champion after beating Ian Nepomniachtchi in enthralling finale
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Ding Liren, world chess champion: ‘I remembered Camus: ‘If you can’t win, you have to resist’’
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World Chess Championship 2023 Game 10 As It Happened: Ding Liren draws with Ian Nepomniachtchi, still trails by a point
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‘Chess educates as no lecture can’: Discipline, creativity and decision-making among useful lessons players can gain for life.
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As Hans Niemann makes appearance at side event in Astana, Nepo and Ding say almost impossible to cheat in OTB events
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Chess-In Carlsen's shadow, chess awaits a new world champion: Chess will crown a new world champion when Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren begin their battle on ...
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Chess in China: This is what is behind the Great Dragon project: Three men, one goal: make China the leading chess nation - Ironically, the country in which the ...
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Chess player freezes under pressure at World Champs: A world championship chess game took an unexpectedly dramatic turn when China's Ding Liren froze under time ...
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World Chess Championship: exchange of blows between Liren and Jan Nepomnyashchi: At the World Chess Championship, the two opponents engage in an open exchange of ...
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Gukesh standing out right now, we have a talented group getting ready for the Candidates: Viswanathan Anand
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Chess: Caruana leads in Bucharest while Ding and Nepomniachtchi falter: The Russian and Chinese stars competed again just a week after their world title match ...
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Daily Briefing: Latest on the ‘conman’ Sanjay Rai ‘Sherpuria’; Vinesh Phogat on wrestlers’ protest; and more
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