Ding Liren likes to watch and listen to the rain quietly.He has just become the world chess champion（冠军）.The 30-year-old man is the first Chinese man to become the 17th world chess champion.
Ding comes from Wenzhou，China's "chess city".He started to play chess since he was four years old.His studied law（法律） in college.He reads a lot in his free time.He likes philosophy（哲学） a lot.The chess player sees a great connection between philosophy and chess.They are both abstract（抽象的）.He also likes to play basketball.But when he is playing chess，he has to forget his feelings to be more professional（职业的）.
Ding has another name called Silent Storm.He is a man of few words，but he has unusual skills of calculation（计算）.Someone asked Ding if winning the championship was the happiest moment of his life.He answered： "'I love you' doesn't always express that you love someone very much.To me，the word "happy" is not enough.I need a stronger word for that."
Ding works very hard.Whenever he travels abroad，he brings a pot（锅子） to cook his porridge in. "I was too lazy to go out to eat at noon!" he said.Maybe he just wanted to save him some time to practice chess.
