Ding Liren

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ding.

Ding Liren
丁立人
Ding in 2023
CountryChina
Born (1992-10-24) 24 October 1992 (age 32)
Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
TitleGrandmaster (2009)[1]
World Champion2023–present
FIDE rating2728 (November 2024)
Peak rating2816 (November 2018)
RankingNo. 23 (November 2024)
Peak rankingNo. 2 (November 2021)
Ding Liren
Chinese丁立人
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDīng Lìrén
IPA[tíŋ lîɻə̌n]
Wu
RomanizationTin1 Liq5 nyin3

Ding Liren (Chinese: 丁立人; born 24 October 1992) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion. He is a three-time Chinese Chess Champion. He was the winner of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour, beating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the finals and winning the 2019 Sinquefield Cup.[2][3] Ding is the first Chinese player ever to play in a Candidates Tournament and pass the 2800 Elo mark on the FIDE world rankings.[4] In July 2016, with a Blitz rating of 2875, he was the highest-rated Blitz player in the world.[5] In July 2023, Ding became the No. 1 ranked Rapid player, with a rating of 2830.[6]

Ding was undefeated in classical chess from August 2017 to November 2018, recording 29 victories and 71 draws. This 100-game unbeaten streak was the longest in top-level chess history,[7] until Magnus Carlsen surpassed it in 2019.[8] Ding ended up being the runner up of Chess World Cups in 2017 and 2019 consecutively and came second in the Candidates Tournament in 2022: this qualified him for the World Chess Championship 2023 against Ian Nepomniachtchi, as Carlsen declined to defend his title. Ding won, making him World Chess Champion, by defeating Nepomniachtchi 2½ to 1½ in the rapid tie breaks after their 7–7 tie in classical chess.

  1. ^ Administrator. "FIDE Title Applications (GM, IM, WGM, WIM, IA, FA, IO)".
  2. ^ "Ding Liren Wins 2019 Grand Chess Tour". 9 December 2019.
  3. ^ Doggers (PeterDoggers), Peter (30 August 2019). "Ding Beats Carlsen In Playoff To Win Sinquefield Cup". Chess.com.
  4. ^ "Ding Liren: Quiet Assassin". chess24.com. 23 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Search results: July 2016". FIDE. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  6. ^ "Search results: July 2023". FIDE. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  7. ^ Peterson, Macauley (11 November 2018). "Ding defeated! Tiviakov celebrates!". ChessBase.
  8. ^ Overvik, Jostein; Strøm, Ole Kristian (21 October 2019). "Magnus Carlsen satte verdensrekord: 101 partier uten tap". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian).