Well said.

Well with the help of the Chinese & Russians.

This wisdom is applicable to ordinary people like us. It is not required to be a hero like Ding to embody that. Once there was a bird that has been left from its home, waiting for death. He was saved by humans and returns to nature. He didn’t expect to be alive again. He now flies with joy spreading that breath of lifeness around, without other purpose that is as an unbelievable strenght. That bird is a metaphor. Of mind. What it can achieve and reach high state of greatness and power of liberty and joy for self and others.

Yea, but he is in China. He MUST play chess

Suck a good lolipop🍭.

Needed to think for a few seconds. You're right

Yea there's a final boss seating in Norway

@@Vaibhavmaurya606 nope, Yan finished first, Carlsen didn't even participate in candidates tournament

​@@sergeysmyshlyaev9716 The champion don't have to participate 😂😂😂 He's the former champion

No disrespect to Ding and what he accomplished but if u look deep in his heart we can all agree without a doubt Magnus is still #1 beast player in this chess universe, Hikaru close second and Ding be 3rd or 5th spot. The 4th spot is debatable. Leave comments on your top 5 chess player playa😉👍!! Dubov, Alireza, Fabiano, Nepo, your guess is as good as mine 😉👍

@@dantemarcos1410 i dont think hikaru is better than ding at classical chess but blitz definitely

world champ lol. everyone knows and knew before the abysmal match, that carlsen was, and has been the best for over w2hat, like 12 years?

you must defend your title in order to be a real champion in any sport or game

​@@ronniemillsapDing "World champ" Liren

⁠@@loisinonepiece5373the person who deserves the title is the one who’s best at the game. Has nothing to do with how much they care about it

Ding stinks in non-rigged tournaments.

@@cringeginge7663 But.. he was not the best? He didn't qualify the candidates like it was required and he didn't win the candidates like it was required. He qualifies thanks to one person being excluded in the candidates and due to Magnus not defending his title. He didn't even win in the classical portion of chess during the world championship? I agree that the best deserves to be the winner but you picked the worst situation to use that on. The champion should be Magnus, but he choose not to defend- so it should be the winner of the candidates, but he lost in the rapid section to someone who qualifies thanks to some incredibly rare circumstances against someone who was not even supposed to be in the candidates to begin with. Hikaru said he didn't even take the last game seriously since he thought the second place meant nothing and lost his second place on the last game. I really like Ding so don't get me wrong, the video points out it was a very hard time for him and its impressive he manage to pull through it all but still, the situation was so unique and influenced by external factors in so many ways- he was not the best before the candidates, during the candidates and during the classical portion of the game, so it doesn't make any sense for you to say that the person who is the best deserves the title because this is not the situation. Edit: For the record, even if Ian won you could've used the same argument, cause Magnus decided to step out of the way so in no way we know if he would've defended his title or not.

@@jaymike3302 You mean like the tournament he played against Ian, and became world champion.? Your comment almost doesn't warrant a reply.

@@jamesdelb6885 I said Ding stinks in NON-RIGGED tournaments. China & Russia work together in the Candidates and the Championship. The Candidates should be an elimination format with only the winners of real tournaments qualifying.

how was that even remotely exciting knowing it wasnt a competition for the best player in the world? I didnt even watch the 'wc', skimmed through a couple games and could tell the quality was low compaired to carlsen

I am sure you must be a GM @ronnie

I like him but he most likely will be remember as the guy who became champion because the actual champion decided to not give a f anymore about his title. It's sad because he is a good guy but its probably one of the reason he is out right now

​@@ronniemillsap"quality was low" meaning you had to watch with an eval bar and commentators to even tell who was winning lmao

@@blastersekla many WCs were not considered the best in the world at the time, for one reason or another. the title is what it is, Ding Liren won it, the rest will only be an interesting drama to read about in 100 years.

Bobby Fischer, anyone?

@@greense65 yeah him too, but he disliked how chess had become non creative and just memorization. Chess IS a very demanding game at the top level. Just makes u appreciate Anand for still playing at 54

Technically like feeling burned out of something, Ding Liren gotta find that one spark to keep his motivation back to himself or retire from Chess entirely. No doubt he played great chess matches at that time, and he deserves the title of world champion for it. Sad to see he stepped away from chess now but I'm sure he'll bounce back.

I think Magnus found a good approach to it. He still loves the game but doesn't want to spend dozens of hours to memorize lines anymore just for the opponent to play for a draw as much as possible. So his solution is to play Blitz and Rapid but no classical. I think Ding could be happy with this too, or maybe 960 classical because he definitely likes spending lots of time lol

@@greense65 Fischer started to 'hate' chess, as it was over burdened with memorising all the increasing opening lines. The big problem with the game, as I find, is to survive the opening, then one can get down to business with the pleasure of the game itself. Hence Chess960 as indeed created by Fischer himself.

Chinese. It's a philosophical language that stems from a philosophical culture. On pair are russian & greek. No western language or culture can really compare.

As a Chinese speaker, I LOL at this cliched Orientalism.

@@8964TS It is by no means condescending, or am I misinterpreting you? Of course all those languages are far and wide more of a philosophical nature than, to begin with, english. I do speak from experience and not sterotype. But please elaborate 🙂

@@8964TS Thank You. I didn't dare to contradict since Chinese is "just" a second language to me but I also cringed at this stereotype as I have enough Chinese friends who don't speak as poetically 😀

@@calm.aware.well educated people tend to use a lot of idioms and symbolism on former occasions and they would sound poetic when translated to english. But you are also right plenty of people don’t sound like that colloquially at all.

You don't know Ding personally, don't call him gentle and sensitive.

​@@SonicMegaKingone can tell from interviews and so on, and its always a fair assumption

He broke off with his gf? And I was thinking he is taking time off to get married.

​@@da96103And i thought he was already married...

Ya talking like chess is maintaining the energy balance in this world lol

@@Jee2024IITHe’s just referencing the last airbender

😂

What happen to caruana

He can buy 200 years worth of bat soup with that much

source?

​@@Chingbong1Good grief 💀

That's a lot of money anywhere.

​@@Chingbong1casual racism

Then who decides the strongest player?

@@baifriendmostly rating

@@user-qu8tp1hj4o then why not just give the world champion title the "mostly rating", no need for the competition.

he probably is the strongest player if you acknowledge the fact that he won the wcc with all the issues he had , just check ding's career 'bout how he reached 2800 (100 games without a L) , at his best he is definitely at the top imo.

@@GainTheReason ding is nowhere near magnus.The world championship level was at an all time low standard,and nepo was far superior in classical but he choked as usual.Based on performance level ding isnt in the top 5

@@TI-dl5uj you ok? Ding has been in top 10 for many years, and is currently top 3 lol. A few years back he event went for 100+ games without losing, something no one else achieved except Carlsen.

@@NsEricNs we are speaking about current ding.His performance has been just bad

Magnus carlsen also found ding tough as one of Magnus's interview.

​@@user-qs8gu5sg3dwhat performance if he doesn't play? His last major event was the World Championship

and if others knew that the second would reach the final too they would have fought more

​@@IciEtAilleurDuMoinswe could do without your tinfoil hat

@@IciEtAilleurDuMoinsdon’t think the Chinese government cares, legit have no recognition of him in chinese media

This aged pretty well 😂

Yeah it was unfair as well

No they shouldn't. There's no reason for them to change the rigorous format.

@@SonicMegaKing There is - the change in the capabilities of things like stockfish just made the game from battle of wills and creativity into a stressfull duel of memories and preparations - nobody enjoys that, nobody wants to do that but if they dont they lost and therefore all are constantly stressed out into overpreparing because preparing too little cannot be done even by the very best. Chess simply needs to reform to keep up with our current technological level. At the moment I would say chess is fun until 2400 and after that it becomes stressful unrewarding mess for the players.

Continuity in chess is very important, like everywhere else. But life is very precious. We have only one. And there are so many beautiful things away from chess.

Yeah Magnus effectively more or less retired from chess as well. Nothing further to prove, now he plays for fun. Same with Hikaru.

Can you point to someone relevant calling Carlsen a chicken ? I don’t think anyone would or did.

@@yssode The "chicken" Part is figurative. But all over the comment sections on different videos there are those who believe and claim Carlsen is running away from the challenge because he's scare to lose.

He is not cracking, he seems to have other issues

​@@cjikeakoabsolutely correct

​​​​@@yssode GM Jesse Kraai didn't call Magnus a chicken per se but he did claim Magnus was losing his mind like Fischer, on a chessdojo podcast. Except he used the euphemism "neurodivergent" to dance around the accusation, which is even worse IMO (quote: "I _smell_ neurodivergence", ew). Was really gross tbh, both that part and things he said about Magnus owing it to everyone not to give up the title

He didn't. Nepo won candidates, Ding was second. This makes Ding's story way more impressive

It does?@@bodolawale5448

​@@bodolawale5448Nepo finished first without losing a single match to any of them. Thats more impressive since its the first time in history.

@@bodolawale5448 I would swap "impressive" with "lucky," seeing as how he wouldn't have been in the final if not for Carlsen not playing.

i mean, tbh he did, right after in Budapest i think

Hope so ding is one of the chess players i enjoy watching.

Yeah unless Carlsen come back, it's unlikely that someone can beat him

He isn't preparing lmao. He ran from the pressure to hide at home.

I think he’s just taking a break. He said he wanted to retire on multiple occasions after the pandemic. Now the title of world champion force him to continue his career.

@@ChessJourneyman lol stfu with your 20 elo takes.

If you watch the excellent documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World. He definitely did feel that way and quit immediately after he won the world championship.

@@dhirajpallin2572 fischer didn't defend, because the rules didnt make sense for him. if the games were a draw, he would lose his title, which Fischer absolutely refused to agree to, which lead to him not defending. And I agree with Fischer, that ruleset makes absolutely no sense and is total bs.

he didn't quit the WC though, he quit chess completely.@@pupper5580

@@pupper5580 Fischer was a fucking joke that couldn't be any person who had decent preparation. He relied solely on his talent to get to where he was, what a joke and a waste of pure potential. Just like Shaquille O'neal he could have been the greatest of all time but complained too much, lacked accountability, and literally just let his talent guide him.

Those making a lot of noises here are "Empty vessels making the most noise".

People have so many intellectual talents. Chess is only one of them, it’s just a game. I’ve know ridiculously smart people who suck at chess.

Might explain why he is perpetually drunk 😢

So are you saying that as long as Magnus is still around, all future World Champions are not really the WC ? How stupid is that 😂 ?

@@elimlinrr6898 You're the stupid one that's not what he's saying LOL. If Magnus decided to defend his title, ding wouldn't have gotten through the candidates as he only came second place and therefore wouldn't have played in the WCC match. It would be Magnus vs Nepo again.

For real, we can't tell him what to do in his own life.

I’m not insinuating that he won’t defend his title but I’m saying that there is a chance based on his interviews and his long absence. Being inactive for this long in chess is rarely a good thing (looking from a history standpoint)

I have fought against expectation my whole life, much from within, and as a result, have often performed less than I could. It is a crippling feeling.

@@MorningNapalm you can never ever live up to the expectation

Yes, like with so many things, the only real strategy is to come to terms with things, find the balance, accept compromise, and do your best. Even getting to that point is a big struggle.@@sak1211