Ding Liren is showing why he is world champion and why he managed a streak of unbeaten 100 classical games at his peak in 2017-18.
The world No. 5 Indian challenger enjoyed the advantageous position for the large part of this 72-move, five hours 20 mins battle. But the Chinese world No. 23 kept on fighting, did not play too passively, found enough resources for counterplay and broke the optimism of lakhs of Indian followers to split a point.
