The FIDE Candidates Tournament saw a draw between Hikaru Nakamura and Ian Nepomniachtchi. Nakamura had a significant edge but the game ended in a draw. Gukesh lost in a heartbreaking game against Alireza Firouzja. Nepomniachtchi leads the tournament. Tan Zhongyi leads the Women's section. Gukesh prefers losing before a rest day.
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Giri: "So far, it's been pretty much a Nepo show, I would say... the narrative, you know, it's all geared towards yet another Nepo victory. #FIDECandidates https://t.co/MoVEqQj37p
Round 8 of the Candidates Tournament 2024 starts from 12 AM IST today! Today marks the beginning of the 2nd half of the tournament. Here are the pairings: Open: Hikaru Nakamura - Fabiano Caruana Ian Nepomniachtchi - Nijat Abasov Praggnanandhaa R - Alireza Firouzja Vidit Santosh… https://t.co/jXiRN80m9W
We're back to the same pairings from round one, but with colors reversed! Will Nepomniachtchi stay in the lead after round eight? #FIDECandidates https://t.co/6QCAW7WlzH
Tan Zhongyi is almost the first odds-on favorite of the event... but also Lei Tingjie is back in contention and it's a four-woman race at halftime. They play today, as do Goryachkina and Lagno. So either today will sort some things out, or today will make it even messier! https://t.co/fNp2iimgG4
Nepo is a clear favorite now, but five players still at least 10% (round with me please) means the second half could be chaos. Also note that Nepo could lose almost 10 percentage points with a draw today, so he kind of must win to stay in the driver's seat. https://t.co/RfMlJNFUIa
we asked @rpraggnachess to describe every player in the #FIDECandidates 👀 https://t.co/uMrtykHQSD
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Heres a new graphic capturing the rising stars of Indian chess! 🇮🇳 #FIDEcandidates Who will be the next challenger? @ChessbaseIndia @chesscom_in @FIDE_chess #chess #chessart @rpraggnachess @viditchess @DGukesh https://t.co/EIBk7HRQpa
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🎙️ 90 minutes podcast featuring @sagarchess1 and @DanielRensch will be released on @ChessbaseIndia soon! https://t.co/Lg2ua115qE
🔥 In Round 8 of the #FIDECandidates, we have a clash between two youngsters, 18-year-old 🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa R (2747) vs 20-year-old 🇫🇷 Alireza Firouzja (2760). With their history of 3 draws and 1 win for Alireza, who just won his previous round against one of the tournament… https://t.co/HrVvpc2KMu
Favorite country to play chess ft. @DGukesh and @vishy64theking! Watch the full video: https://t.co/6QMqJwhTS7 https://t.co/jgcC5KQZwk
Predictions for Round 8 of the Candidates! Which game will be most exciting? 💪🔥 (Comment below with the results you're expecting)
Round 8 | 🇮🇳 Humpy Koneru vs 🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu Women’s #FIDECandidates Who are you rooting for?
Round 8 | 🇨🇳 Tan Zhongyi vs 🇨🇳 Lei Tingjie Women’s #FIDECandidates Who are you rooting for?
Round 8 | 🇧🇬 Nurgyul Salimova vs 🇺🇦 Anna Muzychuk Women’s #FIDECandidates Who are you rooting for?
Round 8 | 🇮🇳 Vidit Santosh Gujrathi vs 🇮🇳 Gukesh D #FIDECandidates Who are you rooting for?
Round 8 | 🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa R vs 🇫🇷 Alireza Firouzja #FIDECandidates Who are you rooting for?
Round 8 | Ian Nepomniachtchi vs 🇦🇿 Nijat Abasov #FIDECandidates Who are you rooting for?
Vishy Anand @vishy64theking sharing his insights. #FIDE100 https://t.co/1DMd7C8UMr
Our live event with a documentary screening of "King Chess" to support a great cause attended by former five-time World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand, The 12th Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk and many others! #FIDE100 In video: Featuring the 2018 Candidates https://t.co/p5wZY5xWNv
An absolutely epic collab - @GothamChess X @vishy64theking! Watch it now: https://t.co/uf4kVtKbDN https://t.co/M9dbxvZInq
An absolutely epic collab - @GothamChess X @vishy64theking! https://t.co/M9dbxvZInq
Gukesh suffered a gut-wrenching loss in Round 7, but at least—as he surprisingly revealed in a recent dinner with Anand and the Indian Candidates—he prefers to lose before a rest day! #FIDECandidates https://t.co/pULsgfVa4U
Lei Tingjie won the last Women's #FIDECandidates, but can she go back-to-back? 🤔 https://t.co/YwS2NUHXcz
Lei Tingjie won the last #FIDECandidates, but can she go back-to-back? 🤔 https://t.co/Jb7i49kaB0
When multiple players finish their games simultaneously, the media room gets buzzing!🔥 #FIDECandidates #BehindTheScenes Who’s interview would you take if you got a chance? https://t.co/bxr6zAXFmu
We all deserve a rest day! After 21 decisive games in the first half of the 2024 #FIDECandidates, Nepomniachtchi and Tan sit atop their respective leaderboards. IM Robert Shylakhtenko writes on how they got here. Photo courtesy Michal Walusza/@FIDE_Chess https://t.co/1lEoOmWluN
Halfway through the Open and Women's #FIDECandidates, we have two clear leaders on the second rest day: Ian Nepomniachtchi and Tan Zhongyi respectively. Read our recap blog to find out what happened in Round 7: https://t.co/BYG9awODXK (Picture: FIDE / Michal Walusza) https://t.co/QJDlknPoAX
💔The pain of losing in chess! 💔 #FIDECandidates https://t.co/eT5J7XUZlC
Pragg Holds, Vidit Fumbles, Gukesh Meltdown! Crazy Round 7 at the @FIDE_chess Candidates! Watch Round 7 Highlights! ⬇️ https://t.co/Gfyh3wdj6y #Candidates2024 https://t.co/QoIuZZzn49
Chess is so painful sometimes 🥺❤️ Edit: @ram_abhyudaya #chess #chessbaseindia #candidates2024 #gukesh https://t.co/bnuzz93nOr
Hess, Polgar, Naroditsky, Leko. I've been in chess heaven this past week. Hope everyone has enjoyed the first half of the Candidates as much as I have! 😊🙏🍿 https://t.co/M0BbBrFrRx
FIDE Women's #Candidates2024 R7: Zhongyi Tan maintains her sole lead https://t.co/SoMVKfZ750
Chess: Nepomniachtchi bids for third Candidates victory as Indian trio shine https://t.co/e7x8hLdPjn
What score will it take to win the Candidates? Right now that answer looks notably lower than it did when the tournament began. Here are the round-by-round shifts. This means the playoff odds are 28%, with almost a 7% chance that 3+ players tie for first. Could get very messy! https://t.co/BrZ9qzf9v5
Leaders of Candidates halfway: 2024: Nepomniachtchi 4.5/7 2022: Nepomniachtchi 5.5/7 2020: Nepomniachtchi, Vachier-Lagrave 4.5/7 2018: Caruana 5/7 2016: Karjakin, Aronian 4.5/7 2014: Anand, Aronian 4.5/7 2013: Carlsen, Aronian 5/7
4 Blacks and 3 Whites so far: Nepo Pragg Hikaru Vidit 4 Whites and 3 Blacks so far: Gukesh Fabi Alireza Abasov https://t.co/I0TKVR9J9u
FIDE #Candidates2024 R7: Praggnanandhaa's (@RPraggnachess) French Defence holds well against the World no.2 Fabiano Caruana Nepomniachtchi (@lachesisq) emerges sole leader https://t.co/HZDz997eu1
At the halfway mark of the 2024 #FIDECandidates, @lachesisq is back in the sole lead! Gukesh Dommaraju had a heartbreaking defeat against Alireza Firouzja, spoiling a winning position in time trouble. https://t.co/JZabOKttpZ
The results of Round 7 and Standings after Round 7 of the @FIDE_chess Candidates Tournament 2024. Ian Nepomniachtchi has the sole lead in the Open section with 4.5/7 points, and Tan Zhongyi leads the Women's section with 5/7 points. #chess #chessbaseindia #Candidates2024 https://t.co/DCMmq6YIDh
Watch the Video Recap for Round 7 of the FIDE Candidates by IM Kostya Kavutskiy! ➡️ https://t.co/ESnuKhoJm4 #fidecandidates https://t.co/N9W43iUV8z
2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament and FIDE Candidates Women Tournament Results and Standings after Round 7! #FIDECandidates https://t.co/4ANITV8x4i
Praggnanandhaa: "I am very grateful to the fans for supporting us; keep supporting! We are playing some exciting chess, so follow the tournament." #FIDECandidates Watch the interview 👇 🔗 https://t.co/QKP5VOeUnK 📷 Michal Walusza https://t.co/u5aTaTNloa
Praggnanandhaa: "The experience has been really good; the games have been really interesting; I have been playing quite well, so I am happy!" #FIDECandidates Watch the interview 👇 🔗 https://t.co/QKP5VOeUnK 📷 Michal Walusza https://t.co/Xzt2HxHtcc
Vishy Anand and Irina Krush take us through the most exciting moments of round 7 of the #FIDECandidates👇 🔗 https://t.co/ucP1YvCql4 https://t.co/43iqXvbAev
17-year-old Dommaraju Gukesh lost on time in a heartbreaking game against Alireza Firouzja, but he did not forget that gentlemanly handshake. https://t.co/u6BO3CosGM
Firouzja's first win and Nepo is the sole leader again - the results of Round 7 in the #FIDECandidates! Analyse all the games on Lichess: https://t.co/Ev8EDvNrDJ https://t.co/bZNr4FEPKF
Women's #FIDECandidates Round 7 results - replay and analyse all games: https://t.co/25xVvo2vrG https://t.co/ax0PrsOfKj
GMs @lachesisq and Tan Zhongyi are in the sole lead at the halfway point of the #FIDECandidates! https://t.co/9zWn65qgyt
Standings after first half of the Candidates Tournament https://t.co/NmvoL1rj2l
Both American players Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura drew their games in the 7th round of the #FIDECandidates. Photo by Maria Emelianova https://t.co/ruqibOpq0t
White to move! What is the most precise continuation? #FIDECandidates @FIDE_chess @lichess @WOMChess https://t.co/LJVteAkKSQ
Chess is joy, chess is pain. #FIDECandidates https://t.co/3wVq8QXHhT
Pure devastation for Gukesh, who instead of taking the sole lead LOSES the game in time trouble! https://t.co/kphUkHByii #FIDECandidates https://t.co/u7ClIpUgxM
Heartbreaking for Gukesh. Insane for Alireza #FIDECandidates
Alireza's on the board with a win over first-place Gukesh! 👏 #FIDECandidates https://t.co/12slDwnBUw
Second win in a row for Lei Tingjie as she defeats Vaishali in Round 7 of the #FIDECandidates! Analyse the game and see what an amazing play could have been made on move 29 🤯 https://t.co/yTUleYH5P1 https://t.co/iOsx688qt8
Gukesh blitzes out the incredible 27...Nxf2!, but Alireza's crawling his way back into the game! https://t.co/kphUkHByii #FIDECandidates https://t.co/6jViSNureb
Firouzja is a pawn down and has nine minutes to play the next 18 moves! If Gukesh wins, the 17-year-old will take the sole lead of the #FIDECandidates! https://t.co/kphUkHByii https://t.co/y9s4N3yPfS
"I'm quite lucky actually not to be losing after I blundered this ...Bxg3 trick." "[The game is] kind of what I was hoping for in terms of where I got, but then I just couldn't figure it out after that." #FIDECandidates https://t.co/zSjXaiKSZj
If Vidit scores today, it'll be two wins in a row and he'll be half a point behind Nepomniachtchi! https://t.co/W0P6cAFBnF #FIDECandidates https://t.co/W7KBR03TEE
We have our first result of the day in the Women’s #FIDECandidates 🇺🇦 Anna Muzychuk (2520) vs 🇮🇳 Humpy Koneru (2546) ends in a draw. Fun fact: Anna has had multiple Queen+Rook endgames in this tournament. 📷 Michal Walusza https://t.co/T6TB94Ylt1
After all the fireworks, Nepomniachtchi successfully navigates the complications and makes the draw! If Gukesh wins his game, he can overtake Nepo ahead of the rest day! https://t.co/eA2ikMUYHf #FIDECandidates https://t.co/NySKX4Qo6I
We have our first result of the day! 🇺🇸 Hikaru Nakamura (2789) vs Ian Nepomniachtchi (2758) ends in a draw. The game was an explosive one, with Nakamura having a significant edge on the clock, up an exchange with Ian having enough compensation for the same. Both players… https://t.co/d9BHgHmTmk
Nepomniachtchi does play the bishop sacrifice! Nakamura shakes his head upon arriving back at the board, though his position is still okay! #FIDECandidates https://t.co/YLrqMzJldA https://t.co/Fmbo1z9MT4
There are other moves for Nepo, but 26...Bxg3 27.hxg3 Nf4+ 28.gxf4 Qg6+ is one direction this sharp game can go. https://t.co/eA2ikMUYHf #FIDECandidates https://t.co/HFBQxAc2Bp
Today in Chess | Candidates Tournament 2024: Round 7 https://t.co/nIlmGT7IGt
Nakamura has his own spin on the dance of knights! https://t.co/eA2ikMUqRH #FIDECandidates https://t.co/8rFwtdvC47
21.Qd3+ Kg8 was the only way to stay equal! After 21...Bf5?!, Nakamura has an objective edge! We still have a full game ahead of us! https://t.co/eA2ikMUqRH #FIDECandidates https://t.co/kW3DCskrlg
Vishy Anand on 🇺🇸 Hikaru Nakamura vs Ian Nepomniachtchi: “Right now, there are two lonely computer engines sitting somewhere, feeling like they are not getting any credit for their lovely work.” #FIDECandidates Watch the live broadcast: https://t.co/8MnqQz6XZY https://t.co/WIXCZr4uPt
We have a razor-sharp opening in Nakamura-Nepomniachtchi! Leko: "It was one of the lines that I was expecting Magnus Carlsen in the world championship to be testing Ian, and of course we had to be ready for it." #FIDECandidates https://t.co/F7hSlV9krp