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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.
Candidates Tournament 2020–2021; Candidates Tournament 2022; Candidates Tournament 2024 This page was last edited on 9 July 2023, at 06:33 (UTC). Text is ...
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
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 ...
For example, in 2021, the top 4 finishers qualified for the Women's Candidates Tournament 2022–23 including Aleksandra Goryachkina who qualified as the 2020 World Championship runner-up. Year Dates
Tournament Location Winner(s) Ref; 2020: Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2020: Wijk aan Zee: Fabiano Caruana: Gibraltar: David Paravyan: Stavanger: Magnus Carlsen: Russian Chess Championship: Moscow: Ian Nepomniachtchi: 2020/21: Candidates Tournament: Yekaterinburg: 2021: Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021: Wijk aan Zee: Jorden van Foreest: Grand ...
Tournament City System Dates Teams Winner Runner-up Third 44th Chess Olympiad : Chennai: Swiss: 26 Jul – 9 Aug: 188 Uzbekistan Armenia: India-2: 44th Chess Olympiad (women event) Swiss: 26 Jul – 9 Aug: 162 Ukraine Georgia India: 2022 FIDE World Team Championship: Jerusalem: Groups and play-offs: 20–25 Nov: 12 China Uzbekistan Spain