CNN —Ding Liren slumped over the board with fallen chess pieces scattered in front of him in the moments after he won the Chess World Championship last year.
The Chess World Championship is an extraordinary, singular event.
Zhang Shuo/China News Service/VCG/Getty Images“You lose weight during a chess tournament of this intensity.
Several questions are running through a chess player’s head when an opponent makes a move, says Pein, rattling them off.
Qualifying is so difficult that one appearance at a world championship might be all that a chess player can hope for.
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