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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.
Pages in category "Candidates Tournaments" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... Candidates Tournament 2013; Candidates Tournament 2014;
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 ...
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 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).
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 1971/72 edition of the Niemeyer junior tournament, held every year since 1962/63 in Groningen, is formally adopted by FIDE as the 1st European Junior Chess Championship. The winner is the young Hungarian Gyula Sax, who follows in the footsteps of compatriots Andras Adorjan and Zoltán Ribli, the winners of the previous two Niemeyer tournaments.
The Candidates Tournament 2014 was an eight-player double round-robin chess tournament that took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from 13 March to 31 March 2014. [ 1 ] Participants