Updated: May 1, 2023, 21:51 IST

The recently concluded world championship match between Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi underlined a tectonic shift in global chess hierarchy. Ding Liren, a 30-year-old Grandmaster (GM) from Wenzhou, China, came from behind three times and clinched the title with less than a minute to spare.Ding is the second Asian to win the world title. Viswanathan Anand was the first. When Anand won the first of his five world championships in 2000, he was the only Asian in the World Top 10. Europe, and more specifically East Europe, was the epicentre of world chess. The other nine GMs on the 2000 list were Europeans, both in terms of origin, and domicile. Even Anand lived in Spain. Five of the players in that millennial list had been born within the borders of the Soviet Union, one was a Bulgarian and one a Pole.

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How world's chess champions map changed in 20 years - Times of India