The World Chess Championship was finally over, ending with the coronation of the new king of the chess world. The Chinese GM, Ding Liren, someone who barely scraped his way through the candidate route, someone who was strong yet had never been considered to be strong enough, now stood still on top of the world, unshaken.
Even Magnus Carlsen himself, the one who decided to not defend his throne, congratulated Ding, citing his move in the last game to refuse the draw offer and even use his own rook as the 'self-pinning to immortality', believing that the seemingly ordinary move was the one that break Nepo's composure in the last moment, immortalizing Ding Liren in the history book of chess world.
