Chess World Cup: Ding Liren is world champion

Even obvious questions can come across as silly when Ding Liren is asked to provide the answer. As the newly crowned chess world champion, the Chinese sat in a press conference in Astana on Sunday, which the world association streamed out into the wide world. He was still visibly overwhelmed by the spectacle and his triumph, and then a journalist asked him the classic question of what he was up to now. “Now?” Ding replied mischievously, as if analyzing the questioner’s words as precisely as the most confused positions on the chessboard: “Now I’m going to answer questions.”