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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.
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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.
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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 open section of the tournament was contested by a record number of 188 teams, representing 186 nations. India, as host country, fielded three teams. [1] The tournament featured five out of the top ten players from the FIDE rating list published in July 2022.
Candidates could decide to file an official contest of the certified results, according to Richard Pildes, a professor at New York University School of Law and an expert on constitutional and ...