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Candidates Tournament 2020/2021 Resumption

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  • 16-02-2021 3:12pm
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    Inquitus
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    Nepo and MVL lead on 4.5/7 with a chasing pack of Wang, Caruana, Giri and Grischuk on 3.5/7 a full point further back. The winner of the candidates will face Magnus in Dubai in Q4 2021 at the Expo 2020 (now 2021 due to Covid) on the Expo island in Dubai!

    https://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-resumes-the-candidates-tournament

    The Candidates tournament was postponed at the midway stage back in Q2 2020 when Coronavirus hit Russia and various borders were closed.

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    sodacat11
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    I just hope that MVL doesn't win as he would have no chance whatsoever v Carlsen.


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    Inquitus
    Registered Users Posts: 13,734 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    sodacat11 wrote: »
    I just hope that MVL doesn't win as he would have no chance whatsoever v Carlsen.

    I think Fabiano Caruana has the best chance of beating Magnus if he can get past the Candidates, he is 100% focused on Classical OTB Chess, not even bothering to take part in the online Champions Chess Tour., the first round aside.

    I think Anish or Nepo could also put up a good challenge, the rest of them would likely be well beaten. A full point lead is a substantial enough lead going into the 2nd half of the Candidates for both MVL and Nepo, it doesn't leave much room for error for Fabi, Anish or among the rest of those on 3.5 points.


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