Round 14 FIDE Candidates & Women's Candidates

Commentators: GM Irina Krush & GM Eric Hansen

Breaking new ground, the Women’s and Open competitions unfold side by side, featuring 16 players — eight in each group — engaged in an epic battle to determine the contenders for the reigning world champions.

The 2024 Candidates Tournament in Toronto — for the first time held in North America — promises to be a spectacle of unparalleled chess brilliance that will leave a new mark on the 64-squared chess landscape.

[attention_shopping]

4:40:00 it's funny how every commentary freaks out but everyone blunders in suggesting moves. such a crazy game. so sad for fabi :(

[VARMOT]

Chessbrahs are so good at commentary .good analysis and they both have humility while they are talking about chess

[vinodvenkatesan]

Gukesh's interview starts at 6:39:44

[sreesub]

He is still keeping his other seconds secret. So he already has a team for World Championship.

[StockMalthiel]

Deep thinking is not easy, imagine 310.000 games played and Hikaru still do not get it.

[SandipRayChaudhury]

For me, this was an expected outcome in the FIDE Candidates 2024, considering GM Fabiano Caruana and maintaining high hopes for GM Praggnanandhaa and GM Gukesh D. Why? Because the 2018 World Chess Championship (WCC) still lingers in my mind, and Caruana deserved to win it, just as he did against GM Nepomniachtchi in the last round, Round 14. Additionally, the other two Indians were exceptionally formidable in classical chess in the past year. The highlight was Gukesh surpassing the legendary six-time Chess Oscar awardee, pentuple World Chess Champion, Padma Vibhushan Super GM Shri Shri Vishwanathan Anand in classical chess rating on August 3, 2023, and becoming the number one Indian chess player. This phenomenon lasted for 35 years, since GM Anand became India's first chess grandmaster in the year 1988.

© Sandip Ray Chaudhury 22nd April, 2024.

[markrobertson]

As a Magnus fan I’m happy that neither Naka or Fabi won…
Idc about Gukesh. Naka would be threat or fabi as he’s number 2.

[guillermoalonsobeltran]

Fabi should have been the winner. How sad....