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In accordance with the General Rules and Technical Recommendations for Tournaments / 06. Restricted Drawing of Lots, the players of the federation with the most number of representatives were drawn first. Where two or more federations had the same number of representatives, precedence was determined by the alphabetical order of the FIDE country code. Among players of the same federation, precedence was determined by the alphabetical order of their names.

Women’s Candidates 2024: first, draw 2 China players, then draw 2 FIDE players, then draw 2 Indian players, then draw 2 remaining players.

Jonathan Rogers wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 04, 2024 6:04 pm

Probably like many others here, I cannot claim to be very much au fait with all the candidates. Salimova has impressed me but it is probably too early to expect her to do great things. As for the six more experienced candidates, Anand helpfully commented that any of them could do it ... but if pushed I would probably predict Goryachkina, with Lagno as second choice. (I haven't kept up with whether they are actually still compatriots, notwithstanding their first round pairing). If there is anything in that, then it may be that in both events the crucial head to head encounters will be in rounds 1 and 8, though that needn't stop the events from being closely fought to the end.

The winners of the last two Women’s Candidates were Lei Tingjie and before that Aleksandra Goryachkina. They each lost their World Championship match to Ju Wenjun, albeit only by narrow margins. They are both participating in this Candidates again. And there is no doubt they are the two favourites to win once again. But only one of them at most will get to play in the next Women’s World Championship match.

The games are played in the standard FIDE time control, 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment, plus an additional 30 minutes at move 40. This is a different time control than the open section is using, which starts with 120 minutes instead of having increment. It remains to be seen whether the different time controls will cause confusion in the broadcast, but at least the women got the better time control.

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:58 pm

Tan starts with 2 out of 2!

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:35 pm

Tan wins again - in fact absolutely crushing Muzychuk - and really does seem to be in the driving seat now.