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Ding Liren beats Nepomniachtchi to become China's first male world chess champion-
China's Ding Liren defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia 2.5-1.5 in the 2023 FIDE World Championship final tie-breaker on Sunday.
China's Ding Liren was crowned on Sunday (April 30) 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 sequence of events. Thirty-year-old Ding won the rapid chess playoff by 2.5 points to 1.5, capitalizing on Nepomniachtchi's mistakes in time trouble in the last of the...
Ding Liren unseats Magnus Carlsen as world champion without playing the Norwegian five-time winner who chose not to defend the crown he claimed in 2021.