S INGAPORE: After four hours and change in the humble, unglamorous everyday office chair, Ding Liren finally got up. He left the playing hall for a break. The person sitting on the opposite end of ...

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.

Ding Liren, top right, and Gukesh Dommaraju ... He shuffled himself upright in an unrelentingly ergonomic chair, high-backed and curvy with elaborate armrests—office furniture as imagined ...

It means the champion, Ding Liren, and the challenger ... he stretched his hands behind his chair to relax and, pardon the reference to the popular meme, chill. At some level, both players ...

Filatov, according to Russian media, had accused the defending champion Ding Liren (China) of losing the all important final game on purpose. A blunder by the Chinese player in the 14th game that ...