Who Is Winning The 2026 Candidates?

The current players qualified for the tournament are Hikaru Nakamura (#2), Fabiano Caruana (#3), Anish Giri (#6), Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (#8), Wei Yi (#9), Javokhir Sindarov (#20), Andrey Esipenko (#31), and Matthias Blübaum (#38). The rankings are as of right now. You can do individual research on the players themselves. Here is a bit of additional context on the Candidates tournament, this being a quote from Wikipedia: "The 2026 Candidates Tournament is an eight-player chess tournament that will determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2026. The tournament will take place at the Cap St Georges Hotel and Resort in Pegeia, Cyprus, between 28 March and 16 April 2026. The event will be held alongside the Women's Candidates Tournament." The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju (#10). Who do you believe is making first place and playing for the title against the current world champion?

I want Fabiano Caruana to win

Nice I'm personally rooting for Hikaru, but Fabiano is also reasonable.

I'm hoping for Fabiano and predicting Fabiano. For women's I predict Humpy.