2026 FIDE CANDIDATE TOURNAMENT

Choose your favourite player to win 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament. Hikaru Nakamura USA 2810 Rating spot (highest average) 4th appearance Fabiano Caruana USA 2795 2024 FIDE Circuit winner 5th/6th appearance Anish Giri Netherlands 2760 2025 Grand Swiss winner 3rd/4th appearance R Praggnanandhaa India 2758 2025 FIDE Circuit winner 2nd appearance Wei Yi China 2754 2025 World Cup runner-up 1st/2nd appearance Javokhir Sindarov Uzbekistan 2745 2025 World Cup winner 1st appearance Matthias Blübaum Germany 2698 2025 Grand Swiss runner-up 1st appearance Andrey Esipenko Russia (FIDE) 2698 2025 World Cup 3rd place The winner becomes the official challenger to World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in the 2026 World Championship match.

My canidates 2026- Win Probabilities:

Caruana 23.1%

Nakamura 20.6%

Yi 14.7%

Praggnahanda 13.9%

Giri 13.7%

Sindarov 8%

Esipenko 3.1%

Bluebaum 2.9%

Hikaru, he never won WC but he deserves it.