They will be eight grandmasters, the crème de la crème of the current elite, to compete for the right to challenge Ding Liren in a single match, the first Chinese world champion in the history of the game. In this carefully selected cenacle In addition to our national representative, the talented Alireza Firouzja, one player seems to be the favorite, his name is Fabiano Caruana.
The American champion, runner-up to Carlsen in the international rankings, has all the qualities to win in the Toronto Candidates Tournament which will take place from April 2 to 24.
In this grueling competition of fourteen rounds, played at the classic pace of around 2 hours to play 40 moves, Caruana will have to take out of his quiver all his chess assets which make him the natural heir of the most ferocious attackers in history.
They are essentially based on a very detailed theoretical preparation of the openings and great precision in the calculation of the variants.
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