awarded to players rated at 2200 or higher. Chess ratings are determined by results and the strength of opponent. Shafer has more than 500 regular rated wins. In October, Shafer won first place in ...

Ding Liren and D Gukesh are squaring off in a 14-game World Chess Championship match in Singapore ... Ding Liren, from China, is the reigning champion. First player to 7.5 points wins.

Otherwise we would play some tricks which are not objectively good, but to check the opponent," Liren. On evolution of chess and his father being referred to as chess player "Yeah, he (Gukesh's ...

“Reading about Beiwen Zhang’s case about her situation just reinforces my opinion that BWF say publicly they care about the player’s well-being, but in the end, do you really? “Just go ...

The team had already retained their start opener and captain Shubman Gill along with 4 other players. Gill, who took over as captain in IPL 2024 following Hardik Pandya’s move to the Mumbai ...

After the longest game of the 2024 FIDE World Championship, a five hour 23 minute marathon, Ding Liren held on for an unexpected draw against Dommaraju Gukesh to keep the scores level at 3.5 - 3.5 ...

Zhilei Zhang will fight Agit Kabayel for the WBC Interim title, and Anthony Joshua "absolutely" can box the winner; Mauricio Sulaiman says the WBC wants to support the best fights in the sport ...

History repeats itself. So must Ding Liren have hoped on Sunday (December 1, 2024). At the World chess championship in Astana last year, Ding had played the opening London System in the sixth game ...

Today, Ding plays with the white pieces, while Gukesh defends with black. In chess, the player with the white pieces is generally considered to have a slight advantage due to the first-mover ...

As per league rules, both players will now serve a one-match suspension and sit out the 20:15 GMT kick-off in the live Amazon Prime fixture. They will be available again for Nottingham Forest's ...

It's Game 6 in the World Chess Championship as both India's D Gukesh and China's Ding Liren will push to take an advantage with the scores being level at 2.5 points each. The previous Game 5 ended ...

By the time our lunch at Summer Pavilion has ended, the world’s No. 1 chess player is positively cheerful. “You want serious or smiling?” he helpfully asks the photographer who is setting ...