Ding Liren, new world chess champion, completes China’s Big Dragon Project
The Hindu“Tell me, Grandmaster, how can a Western European Grandmaster lose to a Chinaman?” Dutch Grandmaster and author Jan Hein Donner thus asked Gudmundur Sigurjonsson, an Icelandic player, during the Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires in 1978, after the latter lost to Qi Jingxuan. Ding winning the World chess championship at Astana on Sunday is perhaps the culminating point for the Big Dragon Project. At the Chess Olympiad, China has been a dominant force, winning the team gold in the open and women’s sections multiple times. After losing the game which is known as the Chinese Immortal, Dooner said, “Now 800 million Chinese people will know my name.” He could not have imagined that a few decades later both the male and female World chess champions would be speaking Chinese.
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