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It has been nearly two weeks since the World Chess Championship challengers were determined at the Candidates tournament in Cyprus. But what path did 🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu and 🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov take on their path to qualifying?

🇳🇱 Anish Giri's second place score in the open (+3) would have been enough to win the event in the women's section.

#Chess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus #graph #graphs #matplotlib

It has been nearly two weeks since the World Chess Championship challengers were determined at the Candidates tournament in Cyprus. But what path did 🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu and 🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov take on their path to qualifying?

🇳🇱 Anish Giri's second place score in the open (+3) would have been enough to win the event in the women's section.

#Chess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus #graph #graphs #matplotlib

It has been nearly two weeks since the World Chess Championship challengers were determined at the Candidates tournament in Cyprus. But what path did 🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu and 🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov take on their path to qualifying?

🇳🇱 Anish Giri's second place score in the open (+3) would have been enough to win the event in the women's section.

#Chess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus #graph #graphs #matplotlib

It has been nearly two weeks since the World Chess Championship challengers were determined at the Candidates tournament in Cyprus. But what path did 🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu and 🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov take on their path to qualifying?

🇳🇱 Anish Giri's second place score in the open (+3) would have been enough to win the event in the women's section.

#Chess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus #graph #graphs #matplotlib

The moment Vaishali Rameshbabu won the Candidates Tournament for the right to challenge Ju Wenjun for World Championship. Absolutely amazing feat!

#Chess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #WorldChessChampionship #VaishaliRameshbabu #JuWenjun #Cyprus

The moment Vaishali Rameshbabu won the Candidates Tournament for the right to challenge Ju Wenjun for World Championship. Absolutely amazing feat!

#Chess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #WorldChessChampionship #VaishaliRameshbabu #JuWenjun #Cyprus

The moment Vaishali Rameshbabu won the Candidates Tournament for the right to challenge Ju Wenjun for World Championship. Absolutely amazing feat!

#Chess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #WorldChessChampionship #VaishaliRameshbabu #JuWenjun #Cyprus

The moment Vaishali Rameshbabu won the Candidates Tournament for the right to challenge Ju Wenjun for World Championship. Absolutely amazing feat!

#Chess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #WorldChessChampionship #VaishaliRameshbabu #JuWenjun #Cyprus

Javokhir Sindarov wins the Candidates and will face world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, while Bibisara Asaubayeva fights for the women’s title. https://ow.ly/RLa950YJXs7 #Chess #Sindarov #Asaubayeva #FIDE #CentralAsia #ChessChampionship #CandidatesTournament #ChessCommunity #SindarovWins

Chess: Sindarov Wins Candidate...

Heartbreaking that Anish Giri wasn't able to beat Wei Yi today to keep at least some pressure on Javokhir Sindarov going into the last two rounds of the candidates tournament. It was never easy, but it was especially unfortunate that he made an accidental threefold repetition in a position where he could have pressed for much longer.

Full game here: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2026-open/round-12/9SHysZuu/EqHkv1Mp

#Chess #lichess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus #AnishGiri #WeiYi #JavokhirSindarov

Heartbreaking that Anish Giri wasn't able to beat Wei Yi today to keep at least some pressure on Javokhir Sindarov going into the last two rounds of the candidates tournament. It was never easy, but it was especially unfortunate that he made an accidental threefold repetition in a position where he could have pressed for much longer.

Full game here: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2026-open/round-12/9SHysZuu/EqHkv1Mp

#Chess #lichess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus #AnishGiri #WeiYi #JavokhirSindarov

Heartbreaking that Anish Giri wasn't able to beat Wei Yi today to keep at least some pressure on Javokhir Sindarov going into the last two rounds of the candidates tournament. It was never easy, but it was especially unfortunate that he made an accidental threefold repetition in a position where he could have pressed for much longer.

Full game here: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2026-open/round-12/9SHysZuu/EqHkv1Mp

#Chess #lichess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus #AnishGiri #WeiYi #JavokhirSindarov

Heartbreaking that Anish Giri wasn't able to beat Wei Yi today to keep at least some pressure on Javokhir Sindarov going into the last two rounds of the candidates tournament. It was never easy, but it was especially unfortunate that he made an accidental threefold repetition in a position where he could have pressed for much longer.

Full game here: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2026-open/round-12/9SHysZuu/EqHkv1Mp

#Chess #lichess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus #AnishGiri #WeiYi #JavokhirSindarov

Vaishali Rameshbabu 🇮🇳 is now in the sole lead and in position to vie for the Women's World Chess Championship title! Amazing what she has achieved so far. It is still tense as there are two players just half a point behind.

#Chess #India #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

Vaishali Rameshbabu 🇮🇳 is now in the sole lead and in position to vie for the Women's World Chess Championship title! Amazing what she has achieved so far. It is still tense as there are two players just half a point behind.

#Chess #India #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

Vaishali Rameshbabu 🇮🇳 is now in the sole lead and in position to vie for the Women's World Chess Championship title! Amazing what she has achieved so far. It is still tense as there are two players just half a point behind.

#Chess #India #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

Vaishali Rameshbabu 🇮🇳 is now in the sole lead and in position to vie for the Women's World Chess Championship title! Amazing what she has achieved so far. It is still tense as there are two players just half a point behind.

#Chess #India #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

Glad to see Benjamin Finegold is back covering the Candidates : )

https://youtu.be/TdOEp33y6U4

#chess #candidatesTournament

There's a 5-way tie for first place in the Women's Candidates tournament: Anna Muzychuk, Divya Deshmukh, Zhu Jiner and Kataryna Lagno. This can be anyone's tournament with 6 rounds to go.

In the open section Javokhir Sindarov's lead is now a full 2 points as Fabiano Caruana loses and Anish Giri moves alongside him into a tie for second.

See all the round 8 games here:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2026--combined-open--women/round-8/vDnWXRR4

#Chess #lichess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

There's a 5-way tie for first place in the Women's Candidates tournament: Anna Muzychuk, Divya Deshmukh, Zhu Jiner and Kataryna Lagno. This can be anyone's tournament with 6 rounds to go.

In the open section Javokhir Sindarov's lead is now a full 2 points as Fabiano Caruana loses and Anish Giri moves alongside him into a tie for second.

See all the round 8 games here:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2026--combined-open--women/round-8/vDnWXRR4

#Chess #lichess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

There's a 5-way tie for first place in the Women's Candidates tournament: Anna Muzychuk, Divya Deshmukh, Zhu Jiner and Kataryna Lagno. This can be anyone's tournament with 6 rounds to go.

In the open section Javokhir Sindarov's lead is now a full 2 points as Fabiano Caruana loses and Anish Giri moves alongside him into a tie for second.

See all the round 8 games here:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2026--combined-open--women/round-8/vDnWXRR4

#Chess #lichess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

There's a 5-way tie for first place in the Women's Candidates tournament: Anna Muzychuk, Divya Deshmukh, Zhu Jiner and Kataryna Lagno. This can be anyone's tournament with 6 rounds to go.

In the open section Javokhir Sindarov's lead is now a full 2 points as Fabiano Caruana loses and Anish Giri moves alongside him into a tie for second.

See all the round 8 games here:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2026--combined-open--women/round-8/vDnWXRR4

#Chess #lichess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

🇳🇱 Anish Giri held 🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov to a draw today in the open section. 🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana also drew so the standings didn't change at the top.

🇨🇳 韦奕 (Wei Yi) and 🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu were the only winners in round 7. Meaning that nothing changed at the top in the women's either. There's a rest day tomorrow and more Candidates excitement on the 7th of April.

#Chess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #Candidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

🇳🇱 Anish Giri held 🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov to a draw today in the open section. 🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana also drew so the standings didn't change at the top.

🇨🇳 韦奕 (Wei Yi) and 🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu were the only winners in round 7. Meaning that nothing changed at the top in the women's either. There's a rest day tomorrow and more Candidates excitement on the 7th of April.

#Chess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #Candidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

🇳🇱 Anish Giri held 🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov to a draw today in the open section. 🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana also drew so the standings didn't change at the top.

🇨🇳 韦奕 (Wei Yi) and 🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu were the only winners in round 7. Meaning that nothing changed at the top in the women's either. There's a rest day tomorrow and more Candidates excitement on the 7th of April.

#Chess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #Candidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

🇳🇱 Anish Giri held 🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov to a draw today in the open section. 🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana also drew so the standings didn't change at the top.

🇨🇳 韦奕 (Wei Yi) and 🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu were the only winners in round 7. Meaning that nothing changed at the top in the women's either. There's a rest day tomorrow and more Candidates excitement on the 7th of April.

#Chess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #Candidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov and 🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana both won in the open section. Both of them are having a great tournament, but only Sindarov is having a spectacular tournament with a score of 4.5/5.

In the women's it is super close with three players in the lead by half a point: ♟️ Катерина Лагно (Kateryna Lagno), 🇺🇦 Анн́а Музичу́к (Anna Muzychuk) and 🇨🇳 朱锦尔 (Zhu Jiner).

See all round 5 games:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2026--combined-open--women/round-5/jUqeCOHI

#Chess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov and 🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana both won in the open section. Both of them are having a great tournament, but only Sindarov is having a spectacular tournament with a score of 4.5/5.

In the women's it is super close with three players in the lead by half a point: ♟️ Катерина Лагно (Kateryna Lagno), 🇺🇦 Анн́а Музичу́к (Anna Muzychuk) and 🇨🇳 朱锦尔 (Zhu Jiner).

See all round 5 games:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2026--combined-open--women/round-5/jUqeCOHI

#Chess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov is now in the sole lead by a full point after defeating 🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana in round 4 of the open section. 🇺🇦 Anna Muzychuk joins 🇰🇿 Bibisara Assaubayeva in the lead after defeating ♟️ Kataryna Lagno in the women's section.

All games can be found on Lichess:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2026--combined-open--women/round-4/Jb01Pdgc

#Chess #Lichess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

All games were drawn in Round 2 of the Candidates Tournament. However, it was not a boring round: 🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu and ♟️ Kateryna Lagno saved positions in which they were significantly worse.

For all the games visit Lichess:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2026--combined-open--women/round-2/odMMcDG2

#Chess #FIDECandidates #FIDE #CandidatesTournament #Cyprus

We have 3 winners in the first round of the candidates tournament:
🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov
🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa R
🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana

Absolutely crazy to see so many decisive results in the open section and such accurate play in the women's section. This is going to be an amazing event!

All games:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2026--combined-open--women/round-1/HQjIrj2D

#Chess #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament #FIDE #Cyprus

I can't wait! Only one day until the first round of the FIDE candidates tournament starts:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2026-open/round-1/uLCZwqAK

#Chess #FIDE #FIDECandidates #CandidatesTournament

The FIDE Candidates tournament which decides who will challenge the world chess champion is starting in a week!

Round 1 pairings are as follows:
🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov – ♟️ Andrey Esipenko
🇩🇪 Matthias Bluebaum – 🇨🇳 Wei Yi
🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa R – 🇳🇱 Anish Giri
🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana – 🇺🇸 Hikaru Nakamura

🇮🇳 Divya Deshmukh – 🇮🇳 Humpy Koneru
🇮🇳 Vaishali R – 🇰🇿 Bibisara Assaubayeva
♟️ Aleksandra Goryachkina – ♟️ Kateryna Latino
🇨🇳 Zhu Jiner – 🇨🇳 Tan Zhongyi

#FIDE #CandidatesTournament #Chess #Cyprus

FIDE has published the pairings for the Candidates tournament that will determine who will challenge the world chess championship crowns!

https://candidates2026.fide.com/tpost/vgsvdk34p1-fide-candidates-2026-pairings-drawn-in-c

#Chess #FIDE #CandidatesTournament

Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura is unrepentant about his "Mickey Mouse" qualification route to the Candidates Tournament and says any player would make the same moves as him under the circumstances. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/01/06/more-sports/nakamura-downplays-controversy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #candidatestournament #hikarunakamura

朱锦尔 (Zhu Jiner) wins the FIDE Grand Prix and a spot in the Women's Candidates tournament 2026.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_Women%27s_Grand_Prix_2024%E2%80%9325
#chess #FIDE #zhujiner #CandidatesTournament #GrandPrix

Here are the paths that Dommaraju Gukesh and Tan Zhongyi took to winning their respective #CandidatesTournament. The graphs give +1 for a win, 0 for a draw and -1 for a loss.

I've been slowly improving the graphing code that uses #matplotlib and the #lichess API. Let me know if you have any suggestions or have other ideas of visualizing #chess results.

#FIDECandidates

Here's a nice picture of Gukesh D after winning the #FIDECandidates tournament as the youngest player ever! What a whirlwind of a last two rounds.

#Chess #CandidatesTournament #Candidates2024

Oh my, Fabiano Caruana and Gukesh D both won in the penultimate round of the #FIDECandidates Tournament! Gukesh has a half point lead as the last round sees Hikaru play Gukesh and Fabi play Ian. This means it's a must win situation for Ian, Hikaru and Fabi. Will Gukesh keep his lead?

#Chess #CandidatesTournament #Candidates2024

Updated standings graph after round 12 of the #FIDECandidates Tournament. There's a 3-way tie in the open and Tan Zhonyi is the sole leader in the women's. Let me know how these graphs can be more useful 😉

#Chess #CandidatesTournament #Candidates2024 #matplotlib #lichess

Crazy round in the Open #FIDECandidates, Hikaru and Gukesh caught up to Ian and are now in a 3-way tie for first. Fabi also won and is only half a point behind the leaders. Who do you think will win? Will there be a tiebreaker?

#Chess #CandidatesTournament #Candidates2024

I really can't believe how close it is in the open section of the #FIDECandidates after round 10. Two players are tied for first: Ian and Gukesh, while three players trail by only half a point: Hikaru, Fabiano and Pragg. Can't wait for round 11 to start:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2024--open/round-11/46ohJ8Qt

#chess #CandidatesTournament #Candidates2024 #lichess

Here's an alternative way to show the score progression up to round 9 in the #FIDECandidates Tournament. It assigns +1 for a win, 0 for a draw and -1 for a loss.

Powered by #matplotlib and #lichess.

#chess #CandidatesTournament #Candidates2024

Pictures of the winners in round 9 of the #FIDECandidates Tournament: Tan Zhongyi and Vidit Gujrathi. Tan Zhongyi is back in the sole lead after bouncing back from a tough defeat yesterday. She's having a great tournament!

#chess #CandidatesTournament #photo

Here are some nice pictures of the winners in round 8 of the #FIDECandidates. The open section has a 2-way tie for first and in the women section there's a 3-way tie. Everything is still to play for with 6 rounds to go!

#chess #CandidatesTournament

Watch round 8 of the #FIDECandidates today at 14:30 EDT! All the #chess is #live on #lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2024--open/round-8/nUycmG6L

#CandidatesTournament

Unlike what I said yesterday, end of round 7 is the halfway mark of the tournament. Here are some updated graphs showing Ian as the sole leader in the Open as Gukesh lost, and Tingjie fighting herself into third place.

I hope you find these "net wins" graphs useful. They were generated using #matplotlib and the #lichess API.

#FIDECandidates #Chess #CandidatesTournament

As we're halfway through the tournament, here's an alternative way to show the rankings and round results of the #FIDECandidates. Each player gets +1 for a win, 0 for a draw and -1 for a loss. Let me know what you think.

I generated these graphs using #matplotlib and the #lichess API.

#Chess #CandidatesTournament

Crazy 41 move forced draw played between Fabiano and Ian in #FIDECandidates.

Gif courtesy of #lichess.

#chess #CandidatesTournament

Hikaru fans will rejoice in his first win in the #FIDECandidates! Gukesh also impressed by joining Ian in the lead after round 5.

Follow all the #chess of round 6 at 14:30 EDT on #lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-candidates-2024--women/round-6/eNVV58I8

#CandidatesTournament #ChessNews