A heart to heart conversation with World Champion Ding Liren | Match with Gukesh + 10 best games!

Ding Liren came to the room of IM Sagar Shah and Niklesh Jain on the 1st of August 2024 for an interview just before the start of the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team Championships 2024. In this interview Sagar talks to the 17th World Champion about the match with Gukesh that is coming up, and they together discuss some of the best games of Ding Liren's chess career.

Timestamps of the full interview:

0:00 - Ding enters the room!
0:45 - Ding's Team in World Rapid and Blitz Teams!
2:00 - Thoughts on WC match venue
3:13 - Team China in the Olympiad
4:46 - Gukesh winning Candidates
5:42 - beating Gukesh twice in Tata Steel
6:45 - Playing style of Gukesh and Ding
7:34 - Game 1: Ding Liren vs Bai Jinshi, Chinese League 2017
13:26 - Game 2: Ding Liren vs Zi Deshun, Beijing 2009
15:55 - Game 3: Ding Liren vs Li Shilong
19:50 - Game 4: Ding Liren vs Liang Chong, 2008
23:25 - Game 5: Ding Liren vs Daniel Vocaturo
26:51 - Game 6: Ding Liren vs Y Sandeep, World U-10 Championships 2002
29:45 - Game 7: Ding Liren vs Magnus Carlsen, Online game
31:30 - Game 8: Ding Liren vs Magnus Carlsen
33:00 - Thoughts on Magnus Carlsen
33:32 - Thoughts on live ratings and elo
34:52 - Game 9: MVL vs Ding Liren
36:20 - Game 10: Ding Liren vs Richard Rapport
37:35 - How to become tactically strong?
38:35 - Final words and thankyou!

Video: ChessBase India

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