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Richard Rapport: ‘Helping a contender at World Chess Championship is like taking care of a child’

This year’s World Chess Championships was arguably one of the most pulsating battles in the history of the Championships. After a nerve-wracking, see-saw battle, where there was nothing to separate the duo over 14 classical games, Chinese Grandmaster Ding Liren beat Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the tie-breaker. World Championship contenders traditionally hire a team of Grandmasters — called seconds — to help them prepare for and during the tournament. Usually, the name of seconds is a closely-guarded secret. Ding though, chose not to go the traditional way. Hungarian-Romanian GM Richard Rapport was a very visible presence in the corner of Ding, who was defying tradition in other ways as well by becoming the first Chinese GM to play in the men’s World Championship encounter.Speaking ...