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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.
Tournament Dates Players Winner Runner-up Third 2013 Tata Steel Chess Tournament: 12–27 January: 14: Magnus Carlsen: Levon Aronian: Viswanathan Anand: 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 ...
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Carlsen won the Candidates Tournament in London and thus qualified for the World Chess Championship. 8 April. Jayalalithaa Jayaram , the Chief Minister of the state of Tamil Nadu , India, announced that Chennai will host the 2013 World Chess Championship, and said that the event will have a budget of 290 million Indian rupees (around €4,000,000).
The tournament took place at The Great Hall in Toronto, Canada, from April 3–22, 2024. [1] The event was held alongside the Women's Candidates Tournament. [2] [3] The event was won by Gukesh Dommaraju, which made him the youngest ever winner of a Candidates Tournament, and the youngest ever World Chess Championship challenger.
The winner of the Candidates earns the right to a match for the World Championship against the incumbent world champion. [2] The inaugural Women's Candidates tournament was held in 1952 and continued for every Women's World Championship match (except 1958) until 1997, after which the match format was abandoned and replaced by a knock-out ...
The next two highest rated players who played in the Chess World Cup 2013 or the FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13 (average FIDE rating on the 12 monthly lists from August 2012 to July 2013) [4] Levon Aronian: 31 2830 2 Sergey Karjakin: 24 2766 9 Organizing committee's wild card (FIDE rating in July 2013 at least 2725) Peter Svidler [5] 37 2758 11