CANDIDATES TOURNAMENT

Created by FIDE in 1950 to determinate the challenger to the World Champion. The tournaments were organized in 1950 at Budapest, 1953 at Neuhausen & Zurich, 1956 at Amsterdam, 1959 at Bled, Zagreb & Belgrade, 1962 at Curaçao. After this last one, Robert Fischer published complaints criticized the system and the obvious collaboration between the Soviet players. In 1965 FIDE replaced the Candidates Tournament by Candidates Matches.
The Candidates Tournament came back once in 1985 in Montpellier then after a break of 22 years; the event was definitively adopted in 2007. (see details in World Championship).

The Candidates in 2013

What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well. Magnus Carlsen
2017
Danailov, in his campaign, used the motto – “I know.” One or two months later he said “I am learning.” Three years after, we know that he cannot learn. He gave so many promises, he has done absolutely nothing. Georgios Makropoulos
2013
Kasparov doesn’t care about chess, but only about himself and his political goals Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
2015
You only task in the opening is to reach a playable middle game. Lajos Portisch
Karpov is the official World Champion, but I’m not sure what that really means. Jan Timman
1993

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CANDIDATES TOURNAMENT

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