{"id":1921795,"date":"2023-05-01T00:11:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T04:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chess-chinas-ding-liren-defies-odds-to-become-world-champion\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T00:15:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T04:15:26","slug":"chess-chinas-ding-liren-defies-odds-to-become-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chess-chinas-ding-liren-defies-odds-to-become-world-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess-China\u2019s Ding Liren defies odds to become world champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchess-chinas-ding-liren-defies-odds-to-become-world-champion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1921795&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>China&#8217;s Ding Liren Crowned World Chess Champion<\/h2>\n<p>By Alessandro Parodi<\/p>\n<p>In a tense match against Russian-born Ian Nepomniachtchi in Astana, Kazakhstan, China&#8217;s Ding Liren was crowned on Sunday as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chess-chinas-ding-liren-defies-odds-to-become-world-champion\/\" title=\"Chess-China\u2019s Ding Liren defies odds to become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-times-transgender-athletes-dominated-womens-sports\/\" title=\"5 Times Transgender Athletes Dominated Women\u2019s Sports\">world champion<\/a>&#8220;>17th world chess champion<\/a>. This marks the end of an odds-defying sequence of events that kept fans on the edge of their seats.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">\n\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });\n\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Thirty-year-old Ding won the rapid chess playoff by 2.5 points to 1.5, capitalizing on Nepomniachtchi&#8217;s mistakes in time trouble in the last of the shorter-format games, following the pair&#8217;s 7-7 tie in a psychological battle across 14 longer &#8220;classical&#8221; games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;One Ding to rule em all,&#8221;<\/strong> fellow grandmaster Anish Giri wrote on Twitter in honor of the new champion.<\/p>\n<p>Ding&#8217;s triumph means China holds both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/macho-camacho-cold-case-collapses-as-witness-flees-island\/\" title=\"\u2018Macho\u2019 Camacho Cold Case Collapses As Witness Flees Island\">world titles<\/a>, with current women&#8217;s champion Ju Wenjun set to defend her title against compatriot Lei Tingjie in July.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The moment Ian resigned the game was a very emotional moment, I cannot control my feelings,&#8221;<\/em> the new world champion said in a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Ding had leveled the score in the regular portion of the match with a dramatic win in game 12, despite several critical moments \u2013 including a purported leak of his own preparation.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese grandmaster takes the crown from five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway, who defeated Nepomniachtchi in 2021 but announced in July he would not defend the title again this year.<\/p>\n<p>Carlsen said he was not motivated to play shortly after Nepomniachtchi won the Candidates tournament, the prestigious qualifier to the match.<\/p>\n<p>Ding, runner-up in the Candidates thanks to an incredible second half of the event, was next in line.<\/p>\n<p>He had only been invited to the tournament at the last minute to replace Russia&#8217;s Sergey Karjakin, whom the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chess-fide-shares-carlsens-concerns-about-the-damage-of-cheating-in-the-sport-2\/\" title=\"Chess-FIDE shares Carlsen\u2019s concerns about the damage of cheating in the sport\">international chess federation<\/a> (FIDE) banned for his vocal support of Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Ding ranks third in the FIDE rating list behind Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi.<\/p>\n<p>The new champion will attend from May 4 the first tournament of the Grand Chess Tour in Bucharest, Romania, after being almost inactive since 2020 due to COVID-19 lockdowns in China.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alessandro Parodi (Reuters) \u2013 China\u2019s 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 sequence of events. Thirty-year-old Ding won the rapid chess playoff by 2.5 points to 1.5, capitalizing on Nepomniachtchi\u2019s mistakes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1921796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[8491,25487,8776,25489,25488,10904],"class_list":["post-1921795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann","tag-champion","tag-chess-chinas","tag-defies","tag-ding","tag-liren","tag-odds"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}