Who will win the candidates and who will win the WC
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John Napier is a young challenger! He will likely win the candidates and then defeat Magnus?
Or is he?
Jun 18, 2022
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#25
He's not. It's Caruana, Duda, Firouzja, Nakamura, Nepomniachtchi, Liren, Rapport, and Radjabov.
I’m kidding and so was johnhnapier don’t worry
lol but he literally used his own name :)
True true
Move 18 in a Nimzo-Indian (knight-sac line) and Hikaru looks like he has forgotten the rest of the theory. He looks stressed. He is nearly an hour down in time.
Alireza has wandered away from the board, still in his prep.
Jun 19, 2022
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#34
IronSteam1 wrote:
Move 18 in a Nimzo-Indian (knight-sac line) and Hikaru looks like he has forgotten the rest of the theory. He looks stressed. He is nearly an hour down in time.
Alireza has wandered away from the board, still in his prep.
This could go wrong very quickly for Hikaru if he plays the wrong move. I think we could see 3 results in this game!
It's so depressing that Rapport couldn't win that game against Firouzja yesterday. I wonder how much that half point will impact both of their final standings.
Good job by Firouzja working hard and not giving up. That's a vital part of a chess players strength, just outworking their opponent.
Jun 19, 2022
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#36
Does anyone know what sets they are playing with? Doesn’t look like the World Chess board (no hexagon on the board)
Standings after round 3 today. Rest day tomorrow.
| Fabiano Caruana | 2/3 | (+1 -0 =2) | [games] |
| Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2/3 | (+1 -0 =2) | [games] |
| Hikaru Nakamura | 1.5/3 | (+1 -1 =1) | [games] |
| Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 1.5/3 | (+0 -0 =3) | [games] |
| Alireza Firouzja | 1.5/3 | (+0 -0 =3) | [games] |
| Richard Rapport | 1.5/3 | (+0 -0 =3) | [games] |
| Teimour Radjabov | 1/3 | (+0 -1 =2) | [games] |
| Ding Liren | 1/3 | (+0 -1 =2) | [games |
Jun 21, 2022
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#38
If any of you are free you should tune into Firo-Ian right now, the position is an absolute mess!
Wow. The Nepo vs Alireza game just finished 1 minute ago. Did y'all see that? Nepos 2 wins have been devastating attacks. Nepomniachtchi is playing very well early in this tournament.
Nepos just jumping all over em. In both the games Nepo vs Ding and Nepo vs Firo he was like the school bully just walking right into their safe spaces and slapping em around a bit before he took their lunch money. Nepo is in bully mode. Clear first after 4 rounds.
But it's still early in the tournament.
I heard this one guy named John Napier might win the candidates and beat Carlsen and show him who's boss
I don't think there's someone with that name in the Candidates.