Ding Liren

Among the Council's title approvals, an American, Justin Chen, received the International Master title.

In China, Yu Yangyi beat former world champion Ding Liren in an Armageddon game to win the Shenzhen Nanshan Masters.

The final opened with four rapid draws and a blitz win apiece.

Yu then won the Armageddon with white.

The hardest one.

Ding Liren.

Ding draws again for eight straight rounds.

Alexander Grischuk.

So do you think have lady luck, you know?

Caruana, Mamedyarov, and Kramnik all tied for first place, and they're some of the favorites, so it's not a surprise.

But what's a big surprise is that Aronian drew a winning position.

In the last game, Aronian versus Ding, Aronian had pressure the entire game, but Ding defended very well.

Yeah.

Well, if, if we're talking about first boards, then there were people who probably doubted if Ding Liren would be on first board in, uh, uh, for China, uh, after the difficult period that, that he's had, but he was there at, at first board.

Do you think that was also a way of trying to help him get back, to g- to, to give him that confidence, or how do you see that?

Uh, yeah.

I think it's a combination of this and also the stylistic, uh, features.

I think Ding is, um, even, uh, in poor, in, uh, in, uh, poorer form, uh, Ding is incredibly solid.

He has a very, very sound opening repertoire.

Um, a very, very healthy understanding, and it is very hard to beat Ding Liren even if he's in a poor form.

It was really, really fun.

And then getting into the later rounds, covering Gukesh and Ding Liren and so on.

It was really, really cool.

You know, just to be a part of, we obviously covered SLK Chess.

Sorry, that was who I was leaving out.

Anna Kramling, André Sosa from Portugal as well.

Yeah, and then Ding Liren.

Jocky Varshandar of Good Cash.