Candidates 2024 ( note:already submitted my predictions 👇👇👇just wanted to know community takes on it

men's winner -fabi 

Women's winner -humpy

Country with more combined points -india

More indian player would be on bottom half 

More draws than decisive games 

More games finishing over 110 moves than under 20 moves 

Ruy lopez would be the most played opening 

Longest game -117 moves 

No one will play bongcloud 

1 game will end by 50 move rule 

No player under 20 would finish in top 3 

Most rating point would be gained by vidit and vaishali 

No tiebreaks would take place (but I would pray that it would ).

Men's standing : fabi-9;hikaru-8.5;nepo-7.5;alireza -7;vidit-6.5;pragg -6;nijat-5.5;gukesh- 5.5

Women's standing:

Humpy-9.5;lei tingjei-9;goryachkina-8;zhongyi-7.5,lagno-7.5;muzzychuk-7,vaishali-6,nurgyul-5

What is your opinion???

We'll see I have confidence in pragg

Idk

I've decided to do something crazy... I'm gonna drive across Canada for three days and watch some of this thing in person! It isn't very often that such a prestigious event comes to the chess-poor nation of hockey sticks and maple syrup.

Anyone else who is planning to come to Toronto?

As for predictions, I've decided to root for Vaishali and Pragg - it would be wild to see a brother-sister combo as the WC and WWC of chess simultaneously.

My head tells me that Fabi or Nepo is more likely in the Open section. Not sure who has the best shot of the Women's section, as I don't watch quite as much of the ladies.

Humpy has been playing really well lately, so I'll go with Humpy in the Ladies competition, sure.

I expect Pragg, as he did not lose any game in the Tata Steel Masters.