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  • 2024 Candidates Tournament March 3-23

    From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 26 19:31:07 2024
    Just a reminder that the FIDE Candidates Tournament will be held in
    Toronto March 3 - 23.

    I could be wrong but believe this is the first time the Candidates has
    been held in North America.

    https://candidates2024.fide.com/

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  • From Chimbis@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Mon Mar 11 18:36:38 2024
    On 2024-02-27 04:31, The Horny Goat wrote:
    Just a reminder that the FIDE Candidates Tournament will be held in
    Toronto March 3 - 23.

    That would be april 3-23 otherwise might be correct.

    I could be wrong but believe this is the first time the Candidates has
    been held in North America.

    https://candidates2024.fide.com/

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 11 19:30:14 2024
    On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:36:38 +0100, Chimbis <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 2024-02-27 04:31, The Horny Goat wrote:
    Just a reminder that the FIDE Candidates Tournament will be held in
    Toronto March 3 - 23.

    That would be april 3-23 otherwise might be correct.

    I could be wrong but believe this is the first time the Candidates has
    been held in North America.

    https://candidates2024.fide.com/

    Well yes and no - in 1971 the Candidates was on a match format with Fischer-Taimanov in Vancouver, BC and Fischer-Larsen in Denver, CO.

    Until the present era I >believe< the only times the actual World
    Championship match was held in North America (1st half NYC, 2nd half
    Montreal) were Lasker-Zukertort 1894 and Lasker-Marshall (1907 -
    played in several US cities) while Capa beat Lasker in Havana 1921.

    As a member of the Chess Federation of Canada national executive I can
    tell you that there was some "excitement" (of a bad sort) with
    registrations and e-mails flying here there and everywhere which have
    now been resolved and everything is good to go.

    What makes this one interesting is that it's the first time the Mens'
    and Womens' Candidate events have been held concurrently. The pictures
    I've seen suggest they'll be played in the same room concurrently
    which shouldn't be an issue since there are 16 players (plus
    officials) in each event.

    (I recently purchased Keres' book on the 1948 Match-Tournament and am
    having a wonderful time on the games - highly recommended though being
    a hardcover, a bit pricey)

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Mar 14 01:11:39 2024
    On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:29:38 -0400, William Hyde
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I could be wrong but believe this is the first time the Candidates has >>>> been held in North America.

    https://candidates2024.fide.com/

    Well yes and no - in 1971 the Candidates was on a match format with
    Fischer-Taimanov in Vancouver, BC and Fischer-Larsen in Denver, CO.


    The first round of the 1988 Candidates were held in St John, while >Spraggett's semi-final match with Yusupov was held in Quebec city.

    Byrne's match against Spassky was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

    Spraggett-Yusupov was 1989 right?

    I've made the claim concerning 1971 being the most recent Canadian
    site involving the Candidates and nobody on the CFC executive drew
    that one to my attention go figure.

    I would have expected some of them would have remembered - doh! (I had remembered Spraggett went to round 1 of the Candidates but not the
    venue or year. Of course that would have been right about the time my
    second daughter was born so I may or may not have had an excuse :)

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