D Gukesh ended up getting outplayed by Jan-Krzysztof Duda, his second at last year’s FIDE World Championship where he ...

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.

There’s still some time to go for the 2026 World Chess Championship, but reigning champion D Gukesh knows it’s time to start ...

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.

Dommaraju defeated China’s Ding Liren in a 14-game match held in Singapore, clinching victory with 7.5 points to Ding’s 6.5.

Comeback kid Ding Liren is China’s first world chess champ Nepomniachtchi-Ding, Playoff Game 4, after 58. Bd4. more > ...

“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.

Chinese grandmaster and world chess champion Ding Liren, 32, will defend his title against India’s Dommaraju Gukesh, 18, in a 14-game classical match starting November 25 in Singapore.

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 ...

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Teenager Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest-ever undisputed classical chess world champion after beating Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 in their best-of-14 final in Singapore on ...