FIDE Candidates Tournament 2020

FIDE Candidates Tournament 2020 will take place in Yekaterinburg from March 16 to April 4. Double round-robin with 8 players will determine one winner who will become the Challenger for the world championship and play a match with Magnus Carlsen at the end of 2020.

Lineup according to the starting numbers:
1. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2767 FRA)
2. Ding Liren (2805 CHN)
3. Anish Giri (2763 NED)
4. Alexander Grischuk (2777 RUS)
5. Kirill Alekseenko (2698 RUS)
6. Ian Nepomniachtchi (2774 RUS)
7. Wang Hao (2762 CHN)
8. Fabiano Caruana (2842 USA)

Don't miss our live broadcasts with commentary in three languages:
English - GM Judit Polgar, GM Daniel King, and GM Evgeny Miroshnichenko
Russian - GM Sergey Shipov
Chinese - GM Hou Yifan and Peng Zhaoqin

#FIDECandidates #FIDEchess

[vavachess]

Hope to see some great chess games which will be talked for years to come.

[ganeshbhat]

Sad to know that Radjabov withdrew But very happy to know that MVL replaced him

[sanketpatil]

Will love to watch it with GM Judit Polgar's commentary

[mischatal]

Amazing cgi - very professional, it couldn’t have been easy making super nerds look so intimidating.

[fuadasyari]

Can't wait looking forward to the candidates
Let's the show begins

[sibakanta]

The best part was not candidate happening.It's the commentator team which fide selected brings immence eagierness & joy to follow this wonderful journey.Thnx so much finally no laughing model as commentator. Saved from ruining our time🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[charlesp]

My prediction:
1) Ding Liren
2) Fabiano Caruana
3) Alexander Grischuk
4) Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
5) Ian Nepomniatchi
6) Wang Hao
7) Anish Giri
8) Kirill Alekseenko

[carstenhvenegaardkjeldgaar]

So much looking forward to seeing and hearing Judit commentate

[trentasso]

That teaser IS epic you have to admit it

[pfehlen]

Glad Miro is casting it, props to him I hope he had some time off since the lonely cast in Hamburg.

[dayg]

I am extremely excited. Fabiano Caruana and Ding Liren are the most dangerous guys but Alexander Grischuk is a personal favourite. Good luck everybody!!! I will be following the games closely :)

[napoleonbonaparte]

Oh I thought for a moment that logo was a representation of a corona virus. :(

[cruelten.studio]

Хороший ролик сделали. Видно, что шахматы развиваются, это не может не радовать!

[dhanendran]

I'm wondering will there be a new champion for this year or not😏😏

[andreadangelo]

Hope you will show live games as you did for woman world chess championship

[ryuzaki_ray]

Either Ding Liren or Fabiano Carauna will win.

[dmitriydruzhinin]

I'd go for the boys without a beard.... The teaser is great, as is the web site of the tournament. Congratulations to those who have put them together!

[slmctk]

MVL is replacement by rating (as written in the teaser) or 3rd place at the World Cup ?

[subudjj]

Caruana's rating is really high thats like magnuses rating around 2018

[StinkyBread]

I will never not be super bummed out that Radjabov withdrew.