The #FIDECandidates and Women's Candidates 2024 has concluded.

📷 Michal Walusza

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🇨🇳 Tan Zhongyi: winner of the 2024 FIDE Women's Candidates and Women's World Championship Challenger!

📷 Stev Bonhage

BOTH 2024 CANDIDATES WINNERS HAVE THE SAME BIRTHDAY??? WHAAAAT 🤯

May 29th is the birthday of chess geniuses!

💡 Candidates Trivia!💡
In this interview, Emil says 'no one ever won 4 in a row in the Women's Candidates before Vaishali.'

Who was the last player to win 4 in a row in the Women's Candidates before Vaishali? 🤔

youtube.com/watch?v=1PS6jj…
📷: ChessBase India
#chess #womeninchess

Only two left on 4/4 (!!) in the European Women's Championship now!
It's former bronze medallist, 🇦🇿 Ulviyya Fataliyeva (pictured!), and fellow IM, 🇪🇸 Marta García Martín!

chess-results.com/tnr897945.aspx…
📷: Jim Laga
#chess #womeninchess #EWCC24

Congratulations to Tan Zhongyi🇨🇳 for winning #WomensCandidates 2024 with a really impressive performance!🥇
#ChessConnectsUs @wwwchesscom #roadtothefinal #Canada #ChessEvent #challenger
📷FIDE/Michal Walusza

FIDE Candidates: 🇮🇳 Gukesh D and 🇨🇳 Tan Zhongyi are the World Championship Challengers

The 2024 FIDE Candidates has concluded. Gukesh D and Tan Zhongyi are the Challengers for the World Championship. 17-year-old Indian prodigy Gukesh is the youngest World Chess Championship

Mai Narva -- who a lot of us did in fact pick to finish Top 5 -- is leading the charge as one of just six players, and one of only two higher seeds, still on 3/3 (!!!) in the European Women's Championship!

lichess.org/broadcast/euro…
📷: Jim Laga
#chess #womeninchess #EWCC24

Day 14: Goodmorning! (I love her)

(I’ll post more, but will start with this. I’m still processing yesterday.)

#FIDECandidates
#candidates2024
📸: Kristan Klimczak (me)

The youngest winners of the Candidates ever!!
Gukesh joins Maia Chiburdanidze as the only players to ever win the Candidates at 17!

📷: via Maia Chiburdanidze; Sagar Shah
#chess #womeninchess #FIDECandidates

Tan Zhongyi clarifies she is not a full-time professional player, and her real focus is as a coach who runs her own chess club.

youtu.be/YcTaCPai9l8?si…
📹: FIDE
#chess #womeninchess #FIDECandidates

Ah, I was right, Tan Zhongyi was working with Jeffery!

Take that, Anish! 😁

youtu.be/YcTaCPai9l8?si…
📹: FIDE
#chess #womeninchess #FIDECandidates

Congrats to one of my followers on winning the Candidates!!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳😁

Now that the #FIDECandidates are over, the next world championships are set!

Gukesh D will play Ding Liren.
Tan Zhongyi will play Ju Wenjun.

chess.com/news/view/2024…

Interesting!

The secret to winning the #FIDECandidates ? Have a birthday on May 29th!

Congratulations to Tan Zhongyi on winning the Women's #FIDECandidates and setting up a World Championship rematch against Ju Wenjun!

✅ New peak rating: 2540!
✅ New peak ranking: No. 6 in the world!
✅ 2nd-best TPR of career: 2619!
✅ Career-best 11-round performance: 2654 TPR!
✅ Candidates winner!
✅ World Championship challenger!

📷: 2700chess
#chess #womeninchess #FIDECandidates

This 'losing streak to win streak' kind of thing is going to be called a Vaishali now! 😁

📷: 2700chess
#chess #womeninchess