by Ding Liren won this fantastic game with white pieces against a well prepared Fabiano Caruana. The opening they chose was Queen’s Gambit Declined Slav defence.
Ding Liren is a 27 year old Chinese chess grandmaster. He is the highest rated Chinese chess player in history and is also a three-time Chinese Chess Champion. He reached the finals of Chess World Cup in 2017 and 2019 consecutively, but ended up being the runner-up on both occasions.
Fabiano Luigi Caruana is an Italian-American chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he became a grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months and 20 days—the youngest grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United States at the time.
