World chess champion goes 0.5/7 in Fischer Random tournament

Ding Liren’s shocking streak of showings continued at the Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T Challenge’s group stage, where the world chess champion scored a single draw after six defeats against fellow members of the chess elite.

One of the biggest Fischer Random chess tournaments of all time began with a dominant showing of the young chess generation, with Nodirbek Abdusattorov topping the field ahead of Vincent Keymer in the group stage portion. While all this was just the prologue for the knockout stage, with the first two days of rapid play serving as bracket seeding for the classical playoffs and no one getting eliminated, the results already made waves in the chess community.