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Viswanathan Anand joins the Candidates Tournament 2024 commentary team

by L'immortale
Viswanathan Anand

It’s official! Viswanathan Anand joins Irina Krush in the commentary of the Candidates Tournament 2024! Vishy Anand will do the commentaries with Krush for the first half of the tournament, and will be replaced for the last 7 rounds.

Five-time World Chess Champion GM Vishy Anand and Irina Krush made an amazing commentary duo at the World Chess Championship Match 2023, providing expert insights on the games between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren.

FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024 will take place from 3-25 April in Toronto, Canada, and all news related to the event can be found here.

The tournament is an eight-player, double round-robin tournament, with 14 rounds where each player is facing the others twice: once with the black pieces and once with the white pieces.

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