That’s all for today. Thanks as always for following along with us. The world title match will resume on Monday with Ding playing as white.
Ding: 'I felt like there was something wrong with my mind'
“I’m not happy,” says Ding, who admits that his mind was straying from the game in the early stages. “I feel a bit depressed. During the first parts of the game, before the middlegame, I didn’t think about chess so much. My mind was very strange. Many memories, feelings also. Strange things happened. I feel a little bit like there was something wrong with my mind. Maybe it was the pressure of the tournament, of the match.”
