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Jamie Ding says he’s relieved to be done with Jeopardy<\/em> for a while.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n The champion won 31 games and $882,605 during his winning streak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Ding is glad he at least lost to a professional chess player, Greg Shahade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Although his historic winning streak on Jeopardy<\/em> came to an end, Jamie Ding<\/a> is content and ready to move on (for now).<\/p>\n The 31-game champion won $882,605 before his last game on Monday, during which he was defeated by fellow contestant Greg Shahade in a runaway win. Still, Ding, 33, has cemented his place in the legendary show’s history books and landed at No. 5 on the Jeopardy<\/em> Leaderboard of Legends<\/a> ranking of past players.<\/p>\n How does he feel? Slightly relieved.<\/p>\n “Yeah [I feel a sense of relief], just having some certainty,” he told producer Sarah Whitcomb during a Jeopardy<\/em> Substack interview<\/a> shared on Wednesday. “Jeopardy<\/em>, I guess, is kind of like baseball in theory. It could go on forever. You could just never, ever stop and that would be interesting but also, I mean, eventually I assumed that I would get tired.”<\/p>\n Still, Ding admitted it’s “bittersweet” to wrap up his time on the beloved game show.<\/p>\n “I certainly would have liked for it to go on longer. But on the other hand, I mean, I’m really lucky that it went on as long as it did,” the bureaucrat and law student said. “And, I mean, I definitely caught some breaks along the way. So, every game was a gift.”<\/p>\n Shahade, 47, is an international master of chess currently on his own run on the show since his debut earlier this week. Shahade told Philadelphia<\/em><\/a> magazine that he had to amp himself up to take on Ding, who he called “the sweetest person.”<\/p>\n “Before the match, I did hype myself up a bit,” Shahade said. “Hit my chest a little bit, just kind of like to get pumped.”<\/p>\n