World champion Ding Liren managed to halt his sequence of defeats on the Norway Chess match in Stavanger on Monday, managing to get a draw towards India’s 18-year-old Praggnanandhaa in Spherical 7 after 4 consecutive defeats in earlier rounds. Within the Armageddon battle that adopted the draw, nevertheless, Praggnanandhaa managed to defeat Ding.
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Whereas the draw was progress in itself for Ding, the end result was painful since he was profitable at some stage, however his insecurity ensured he ended up dropping.
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Praggnanandhaa has now overwhelmed the World No.1 (Magnus Carlsen) and World No.2 in the identical occasion within the classical format. (Norway Chess/Stev Bonhage)
was sad with the best way he received the sport.
“Issues labored out for me. I simply must overlook right now. It was a really unhealthy end result. It’s a protracted match and you’re going to get drained, however I don’t actually really feel an excessive amount of tiredness in the meanwhile. It was only a very unhealthy end result,” the Indian prodigy assessed after the end result to Norway’s TV2.
Forward of the sport towards Praggnanandhaa, a visibly downcast Ding was requested by the native broadcast accomplice TV 2 how irritating it was to not be capable to play the extent of chess that he’s able to taking part in.
“I’m very unhappy to have 4 defeats in a row. I didn’t really feel very effectively through the video games which is why I performed badly,” he confessed.
In one other interview proper afterwards as he was making his option to the taking part in corridor earlier than the sport started, when requested how he was having fun with Stavanger to date, he might solely handle a response that he was wanting ahead to the second relaxation day of the match on Wednesday.
Ding had opened up about his melancholy in an interview with a German newspaper TAZ earlier this yr. “I had some issues (after changing into world champion). I used to be exhausted, however nonetheless couldn’t sleep very effectively. That led to melancholy. I used to be handled in a clinic twice. Luckily, issues are slowly getting higher. Chess is mentally exhausting — and if you happen to can’t sleep effectively, that’s deadly. No less than I used to be capable of scale back the variety of tablets I took from 4 a day to at least one now.”
Chess legend Susan Polgar weighed in on the chatter about Ding’s points forward of the upcoming world chess championship towards India’s 18-year-old Gukesh.
Ding Liren contemplates his subsequent transfer through the World Chess Championship battle final yr. (PHOTO: Stev Bonhage by way of FIDE)
“I’m very involved for Ding Liren. He isn’t the identical participant he was, not even shut. He appears to lack self esteem, really feel for positions, and sharpness, and many others. That is most likely the worst decline of any reigning World Champion in historical past,” she tweeted. “He nonetheless has time to show issues round earlier than his match with Gukesh. However this can be a 5 alarm emergency! He must put collectively a group that may assist him repair his psychological, emotional, and self esteem issues instantly earlier than it’s too late. He is likely one of the nicest chess gamers and the followers deserve match!”
Whereas he was taking part in towards Pragg, members from the fraternity rallied round Ding, who has endured a wretched run of kind since changing into world champion final yr.
Anna Muzychuk, who at the moment leads the ladies’s Norway Chess occasion, made it a degree to say Ding throughout a go to to the confessional sales space throughout her personal recreation on Monday. She then additionally spoke extensively concerning the challenges of being a chess participant in interviews after her recreation.
“I’d wish to assist Ding, as a result of we chess gamers sometimes all undergo tough intervals. Sadly, this time, Ding’s going by way of this. I want to assist him and need he comes again to his finest chess as a result of I imagine it’s one of the best to compete when all people is on their finest to find out the winner. I bear in mind being in comparable conditions and different gamers got here to assist me and it was treasured. Let’s do the identical for Ding,” she stated.
Praggnanandhaa faces Magnus Carlsen on Tuesday within the reverse fixture after defeating him for the primary time in classical chess final time round within the match just a few days again. Whereas Carlsen nonetheless leads the standings, Pragg is third. In the meantime, Vaishali was handed her second consecutive defeat within the girls’s part to compatriot Humpy Koneru to slide down to 3rd spot behind Muzychuk and world champion Ju Wenjun.