#China

The first championship without Carlsen — Ding Liren defeats Nepomniachtchi in tiebreaks at Astana to become China's first male world chess champion.

China's annual national championship — the round-robin from which Ding Liren, Wei Yi, and Yu Yangyi emerged.

The four-time women's world champion and the strongest active female player of her generation — the prodigy who reached grandmaster at fourteen and chose academia at twenty-three.

China's first male world chess champion — and the player whose 2023 title victory came at the moment Carlsen chose not to defend.

The Chinese grandmaster who at fifteen became the youngest player ever to cross 2700, and at twenty-five remains the country's second-strongest active player.

The national governing body of chess in China — administers both Western chess and Xiangqi (Chinese chess) under a unified federation structure.