Ding Liren

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Ding is the family name here, Liren is the first name.

Ding Liren, 2018
Association	People's Republic of China
Born	October 24, 1992 Wenzhou , Zhejiang Province
title	International Master (2008) Grand Master (2009)
Current  Elo rating	2791 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2816 (November 2018)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Ding Liren ( Chinese  丁立人 ; Dīng Lìrén, born October 24, 1992 in Wenzhou , Zhejiang Province ) is a Chinese chess grandmaster .

Life

Ding Liren learned to play chess at the age of 4 in his hometown. Just one year later he won the U6 state championship and in the following years won several national youth championships in different age groups. Both at the U-10 World Championships in Heraklion 2002, as well as at the U-12 World Championships in Heraklion 2004, he reached the shared 1st – 2nd Place, after fine scoring he finished second both times. At the 8th open Asian championship in Subic in May 2009, he reached the 24th place and fulfilled his first grandmaster norm . At the Chinese Individual Championship in Xinghua in 2009, after 9 rounds, he was still 1.5 points behind the table leader Wang Hao (then Elo 2724). In the tenth round, Ding Liren won his game against Wang Hao. In the eleventh and final round, Wang Hao lost, then 16-year-old Ding Liren won his game against Zhou Jianchao (then Elo 2668) with Black without having to make a move: Zhou Jianchao was late. With that, the untitled Ding Liren with an Elo rating of 2458 at that time with an Elo performance of 2812 points became Chinese Master and fulfilled his second grandmaster norm. He repeated this success in 2011 and 2012. At the Aeroflot Open in Moscow in 2011 he reached 20th place in Group A with an Elo performance of 2703. In April 2011 he again won the national championship. In 2012 he defended his title and won in Xinghua with 8 points from 11 games (+5 = 6 −0). At the Junior World Championships 2012 in Athens, Ding Liren took 3rd place.

Ding - So, Candidates Tournament Berlin 2018 (10th round)

In 2015, Ding Liren achieved 5th place at the Tata Steel Masters in Wijk aan Zee with 8.5 / 13 points, half a point behind the tournament winner and world champion Magnus Carlsen . In July 2015, Ding Liren won a match against Boris Gelfand in Wenzhou with 3: 1 (+2 = 2 −0).

After finishing school, Ding Liren began studying law at Peking University .

Ding Liren has consistently topped the Chinese rating list since January 2015.

In April 2017 he won the Shenzhen Chess Masters with a chess performance of 6.5 / 10 points ahead of Anish Giri and Peter Swidler . As part of his qualification for the 2018 Candidates Tournament in Berlin, in addition to his participation in the 2017 World Chess Cup , he took part in the FIDE Grand Prix 2017 and took fourth place in the overall ranking. Among other things, he won the Grand Prix in Moscow and finished third at the chess tournament in Mallorca .

On September 21, 2017, Ding Liren was the first Chinese to qualify for the Candidates Tournament by beating Wesley So in the semi-finals of the Chess World Cup . In the final he was only defeated in the fast games against Levon Aronjan . Ding Liren finished the Candidates' tournament unbeaten in fourth place out of eight players.

On May 31, 2018, Ding Liren was injured in a bicycle accident in Norway and had to undergo hip surgery. As a result, he was eliminated from the current tournament Altibox Norway Chess .

Elo development

National team

Ding Liren has been part of the Chinese national team since 2011. He has since participated in the 2012 , 2014 , 2016 and 2018 Chess Olympiads . He won the gold medal with the Chinese team in 2014 and 2018. In the individual competition, he won the bronze medal on the second board in 2014 and the gold medal on the first board in 2018. He also took part in the 2011 team championships in Ningbo and 2013 in Antalya (in which the Chinese team took second place) and the Asian team championships in Zaozhuang in 2012 and in Tabriz in 2014 (which China won, with Ding Liren also having the best individual result in 2014 on the top board) participated.

societies

Ding Liren has played for Zhejiang in the Chinese team championship since 2008 .

Greatest successes

• Olympic champion in chess : 2014 , 2018
• Chess World Cup : Finalist 2017 , 2019
• Chinese champion: 2011, 2012
• Junior World Championship
  • 3rd place 2012
• Youth World Championship
  • 2nd place U12 2004
• Sinquefield Cup Winner : 2019

Game example

Ding Liren – Aronjan

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

End position after 44th Kf1

In the following game, Ding Liren won with the white pieces against Aronjan in Sharjah at the 2017 FIDE Grand Prix.

Ding Liren – Aronjan 1-0

Sharjah, February 27, 2017

English opening , A14

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 Be7 5. 0–0 0–0 6. d4 dxc4 7. Qc2 a6 8. a4 Bd7 9. Qxc4 Bc6 10. Bf4 Bd6 11. Qc1 a5 12. Nc3 Sa6 13. Bd2 Nb4 14. Qb1 Bxf3 15. Bxf3 c6 16. Rd1 De7 17. Ne4 Nxe4 18. Qxe4 Rfd8 19. Bc3 Rd7 20. Rd2 Qd8 21.Rad1 Be7 22.h4 Rb8 23. e3 Nd5 24. Qc2 Qc7 25.Kg2 g6 26.h5 Bf8 27.e4 Nb4 28. Qb3 c5 29. dxc5 Rxd2 30. Rxd2 Qxc5 31. Rd7 b5 32. axb5 Qxb5 33. Qd1 Nc6 34.Be2 Qb6 35.Bc4 Rb7 36. b3 Qa7 37. Rd6 Bxd6 38. Qxd6 Qb6 39. Qf4 Kf8 40. Bxe6 Nb4 41. Qf6 Nd3 42.Bd4 Qd6 43. Be3 Ne1 + 44. Kf1 1: 0

Web links

Commons : Ding Liren  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Ding Liren on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} ChessBase Megabase 2011.
2. ↑ Ding Liren (16) new Chinese Champion after surreal finish. Retrieved March 2, 2011.
3. ↑ TWIC850. Accessed March 2, 2011.
4. ↑ Final result on the tournament page
5. ↑ Ding Liren vs Boris Gelfand Match 2015, TWIC , July 21, 2015.
6. ↑ Ding Liren - The Chinese Rising Star ( December 26, 2012 memento in the Internet Archive ), Whychess.com, December 22, 2012.
7. ↑ chess.com
8. ^ Peter Doggers: Ding Liren Wins Cook-Off, Then Heads To Hospital With Fractured Hip. In: chess.com. June 1, 2018, accessed June 2, 2018 . 
9. ^ Ding Liren withdraws from the tournament. In: norwaychess.no. June 2, 2018, accessed June 2, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
11. ↑ Ding Liren's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
12. ↑ Ding Liren's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
13. ↑ Ding Liren's results at Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Ding is the family name here, Liren is the first name.