The Truth About Ding Liren

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    Ding Liren's journey to the throne is the defenition of the triumph of the underdog. everyone was cheering for Ian (myself included) in the biginning of the match because i knew Ian from the last Championship and wanted him to win, but when i saw how Ding was playing i found myself wanting Ding to win. They're both great players, but Ding has something special. He manages to survive in very difficult postions and plays brilliant chess. He might not have had a chance to play in this match if Magnus hadn't withdrew, but he defenitly deserved that win. Hats off Sir Ding Liren 👑

    If Hikaru won the game vs ding I think he would have been first place that’s why he was so aggressive and didn’t opt for a draw

    Hi! We are in Ukraine enjoy your videos very much! Keep going!
    But we kinda dont like when people treat what is happening in Ukraine as russian "operations". "Operations" is how they are used to call military interventions in numerous countries scince the middle of USSR period. As a ukranian I can claim that this is a full scale war with >3700 km of the frontline, with hundred of thousands casualties.

    So we will be grateful if you call it "the war", "the military intervention of Russia". Thanks for the best chess youtube content!

    Jesus H cool it with the beta close up big face cartoonish thumbnails. have some respect

    honestly… i just don't like him because he's chinese!

    f5 move in Game 12 will haunt Ian Nepo for the rest of his life. With one bad move, he blundered the game, the match, and possibly his last chance to ever become World Champion. All because he was playing BLITZ chess and walking away from the board, instead of sitting and focusing and using his time to think carefully.

    Bro called an invasion a operation, imo he should get banned too, spouting russian propoganda while civilian ukrainians are getting slaughtered. While trying to be a "non political amurican" just spuot all the russian propoganda. Either ignore the subject completely and be non political or call out what is happening – an invasion. Ur a pathetic coward

    Great to see alot more people showing appreciation for my chess idol King Liren 😀

    This story is insane!

    I hope they do a movie about Ding's journey. Thank you for making and sharing this video Levy.

    All hail King 👑 Ding Liren!!!! 😀

    Think this was my favorite video yet, amazing storytelling, thank you for making videos like this 🙂

    You are greatest Levi. You are also responsible for the popularity of chess sir. Now "gerrarahear".

    This championship match was actually exciting because Magnus would have made it one sided

    I don't understand why everyone leaves out one of the most important parts of the story, that being the prologue: the reason he, as the player ranked #2 after Caruana slipped down the rankings, should have been invited to the Candidates, but wasn't.

    Due to covid travel restrictions, Ding could only rely on highest rated, non-qualified as a route to the Candidates, but FIDE then gave that slot to Radjabov as some kind of apology for him withdrawing in error from the previous candidates (something they absolutely did not need to do). With no way to reasonably qualify, it's hardly surprising Ding didn't "try his best" to play the major events and settled for "9th place" in the Candidates, deciding to play online where he regularly lost major matches due to being disconnected. Life really kicked him when he was down.

    But now he's World Champion. Karma, baby.

    you forgot to mention how his prep got leaked in the middle of the wcc match, would've made an already iconic hollywood story just more breathtaking

    “Insane story of ding leran” would have been a better title for vid
    Awesome vid!

    Надо говорить gentlemen and ladies

    They can make a movie out of this and call it kings Gambit.

    Not to mention how Hikaru was always a bad stylistic matchup for Ding, its like meeting the final boss before going into the climax

    Dude are you turning into that guy that speaks so slow I need to 1.5x the video

    Why did magnus withdraw himself from the tournament can anyone tell?

    Ding Liren’s story is straight out of a movie, hope to see it composed! It truly is inspiring.

    Will there be a chess movie about Ding. Hes road to become world chess champion?

    Followed this arc from your early videos on Ding, it's simply incredible…. no seriously, this is all way too sus <.< full on scripted…

    "Russian operations in Ukraine". It's an invasion and we should call it that.

    The journey is the absolute Cinderella story. Very beautiful.
    But following the matches–not to downplay the achievement or anything–I kind of understand why Magnus refused to defend the position: the man craves for challenges.

    My video paused 1 second into the video and it took me 5 seconds to realize …

    It’s a great comeback, but Steven Bradbury’s comeback is the greatest

    Bro ain't no way the subtitles said dingley wren

    Pro war lol. Meaning supporting wrong side. Other side was also pro war go take your money lying

    Ding Liren will have either the shortest, or the longest reign of all time 😂. He loses games, but somehow wins matches, so he might be completely unbeatable. He might be the WC forever

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