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The 2013 Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess double round-robin tournament that took place in the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Savoy Place, London, from 15 March to 1 April 2013.
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.
Candidates Tournament 1950; Candidates Tournament 1953; Candidates Tournament 1956; Candidates Tournament 1959; Candidates Tournament 1962; Candidates Tournament 2013; Candidates Tournament 2014; Candidates Tournament 2016; Candidates Tournament 2018; Candidates Tournament 2020–2021; Candidates Tournament 2022; Candidates Tournament 2024
As with every Candidates tournament since 2013, it was a double round-robin tournament. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The winner of the tournament earned the right to play the World Chess Championship 2024 against the current World Chess Champion Ding Liren .
The challenger was determined in the 2013 Candidates Tournament, which was a double round-robin tournament. (This was the first time in 51 years that the round-robin format had been used for a Candidates, [ 3 ] though it had been used for the 2005 (FIDE) and 2007 World championships).
2013 Zurich Chess Challenge: 23 February – 1 March: 4: Fabiano Caruana: Viswanathan Anand: Vladimir Kramnik: 2013 Candidates Tournament: 15 March – 1 April: 8: Magnus Carlsen: Vladimir Kramnik: Peter Svidler: 2013 Zurich Grand Prix: 17 April – 1 May: 12: Veselin Topalov: Hikaru Nakamura: Ruslan Ponomariov: 2013 Alekhine Memorial: 20 April ...
Candidates Tournament 2013; Chess at the 2013 Bolivarian Games; Computer Chess (film) E. 2013 European Individual Chess Championship; F. FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13;
The Chess World Cup 2013 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, played between 11 August and 2 September 2013, in the hotel Scandic Tromsø in Tromsø, Norway. [1] [2] It was won by Vladimir Kramnik, who defeated Dmitry Andreikin 2½–1½ in the final match. [3] The finalists qualified for the 2014 Candidates Tournament.