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The 2022 Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess tournament to decide the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2023.The tournament took place at the Palacio de Santoña in Madrid, Spain, from June 16 to July 5, 2022, [2] with the World Championship finishing in April 2023. [3]
Before 1950, the champion had the right to handpick a challenger. However, a number of tournaments acted as de facto candidates tournaments: The London 1883 chess tournament established Johannes Zukertort and Wilhelm Steinitz as the best two players in the world, and was one of the important events leading to the first official world championship match between the two, in 1886.
The 2023 Women's World Chess Championship was a chess match for the Women's World Chess Championship title. It was contested by the defending champion, Ju Wenjun, and her challenger, Lei Tingjie, the winner of the 2022–23 Candidates tournament. It was played in two Chinese cities from 5 to 24 July 2023, giving each participant a home-field ...
Indian chess prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju, better known as Gukesh D, became the youngest player to claim the men’s Candidates Tournament in Toronto, Canada Sunday.
The FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022–23 was an eight-player chess tournament held to determine the challenger for the Women's World Chess Championship 2023.The first stage of the tournament, consisting of the quarterfinals and semifinals, was held from 24 October to 6 November 2022 in Monaco, and from 29 November to 11 December in Khiva.
In April 2022, Carlsen again publicly stated that he was unlikely to play in the next world championship, this time without mentioning any potential opponent. [9] The Candidates Tournament 2022 concluded in early July 2022, with Nepomniachtchi its winner. FIDE and Carlsen were already in talks regarding the world championship match and its ...
2022 Candidates Tournament: Madrid: Double round robin 16 Jun – 8 Jul 20 8 (8) Ian Nepomniachtchi: Ding Liren: Teimour Radjabov: Biel Chess Festival: Biel: Round robin: 11–23 Jul: 8 (2) Le Quang Liem: Andrey Esipenko: Gukesh D: Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting: Dortmund: Round robin: 16–25 Jul: 4 (1) Dmitrij Kollars: Viswanathan Anand ...
The FIDE Grand Prix 2022 was a series of three chess tournaments played between 4 February and 4 April 2022. [1] The top two finishers – Hikaru Nakamura (winner) and Richárd Rapport (runner-up) – qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2022, [2] which was the final qualification stage for the World Chess Championship 2023.