China's Ding Liren was crowned on Sunday as the 17th world chess champion in a tense match against Russian-born Ian Nepomniachtchi in Astana, Kazakhstan, in the last chapter of an odds-defying sequence of events.

Ding Liren creates history, becomes first Chinese player to win World Chess Championship

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Ding Liren creates history, becomes first Chinese player to win World Chess Championship