The Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship 2020 will take place at Hotel Hyatt Regency in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Ural Federal District, Russia from March 15, 2020 to April 5, 2020. The “Magnificent Eight” are, in alphabetical order: Kirill Alexeyevich Alekseenko, Fabiano Caruana, 丁立人 (Dīng Lìrén), Anish Giri, Alexander Igorevich Grischuk, Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi, Teimour Boris oghlu Radjabov, and 王皓 (Wáng Hào).
The opening and closing ceremonies will be held at the new offices of “SIMA-LAND”, the online multibrand wholesale shopping centre which recently made headlines for sponsoring Vice Women’s World Chess Champion Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina. “SIMA-LAND”’s founder, chairman and chief executive officer Andrey Moiseyevich Simanovsky, as inspirer and sponsor of the hosting of the Candidates Tournament, not unsurprisingly, has already hired Grandmasters Sergey Yuryevich Shipov to comment live on the games for the Russian-speaking public, while he is still negotiating with Judit Polgár and four-time Women’s World Chess Champion and Rhodes Scholar 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) to offer the same service for English-speaking as well as Chinese-speaking audiences.
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