Ding Liren will start with the advantage of playing with white pieces and the odds are stacked against the youngest World Championship challenger from India. Ding Liren will retain the World ...

Ding Liren and D Gukesh after Game 12 (Photo: Maria Emelianova for FIDE) Will the players remain ultracautious in the final two classical games on Wednesday (Gukesh gets white) and Thursday (Ding ...

D Gukesh, at 18, becomes the youngest-ever World Chess Champion, defeating Ding Liren in Singapore ... But despite having white pieces and getting a decent position out of the opening, he was ...

India's Gukesh Dommaraju defeated China's Ding Liren to become the youngest chess world champion in history. The 18-year-old surpassed Russia's Garry Kasparov's record, after he won the title as a ...