Indeed good stuff so far, eg. Been mostly watching chess.com. Liked Rensch, Hess and Fabi at the WC last year. It's WGM Almira Skripchenko with them, though Rensch wasn't on yesterday.
And to the action. Now 11/14 rounds done and the table is:
So Nepo on the brink of victory and winning his second consecutive candidates. But a big game today at 2pm against Naka who has black. Naka will go all out for the win.
Other interesting things are the performance of the new bright young thing Firouzja bottom of the table, though he was apparently playing bullet chess most of the night before yesterdays game:
https://www.chess.com/news/view/2022-fi ... t-round-11
And that Magnus has said "he would not defend his title unless the challenger was Alireza Firouzja". If Nepo wins, would Magnus want to play him again, after the bashing he gave Nepo last year?
If he does forfeit, then the top two will play for the World Championship next year, which means Naka will go all out as per today and then in his final round game v Ding.
Fun times ahead.
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