China’s Ding Liren becomes world chess champion after tense tie-break match

There’s a new world chess champion and he’s the first ever to hail from China. Ding Liren took the title after defeating his Russian opponent Ian Nepomniachtchi in an exciting tie-breaker on Sunday. As they each had won seven of the previous 14 games, it all came down to a winner-takes-all shootout at the weekend. RT’s Donald Courter has the story. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com