EXCLUSIVE Interview with Ding Liren After Game 8 of the FIDE World Chess Championship

we're here with the world champion Grandmaster ding lean he's been looking at my notes but don't worry we'll keep this short you had a long game today you surprised your opponent perhaps with the French you got a couple of good openings but in the last two days he played this Rook e one move today he played F6 so I'm curious which team has done a better job surprising their opponent considering amount of the opening surprise maybe it's uh even yeah before I gave him a lot of surprise but in last two rounds he gave me

in return he certainly did but you handled it well he has been refusing to take draws in equal positions something we know Magnus Carlson has done a lot were you expecting that coming into the match that he would keep playing in equal positions yeah this was a l are considered uh during the break yes I thought he might reject the jaw I thought maybe it's the same not so much difference but maybe there is okay well after round six you told me you were feeling a little tired now you've played 10 hours of Chess in

the last two days how was your energy level now uh not on High level you can see I'm feeling tired tomorrow we still have one more game you do and finally you said at the press conference that your mom has been providing you food I know there's a Chinese restaurant at the bottom of our hotel but when you're back home what's the best meal that your mom makes when you're at your own house uh actually my father cooked for me okay what's the best meal your father cooks for you um Seafood anything specific oh fish

okay well I hope you get a fish dinner when you get back home thank you ding lean good luck keeping your energy level high cool byebye