Tomorrow Never Knows

Chinese Grandmaster 王皓 (Wáng Hào) is not happy to go back to Siberia for the second time in the same year, and raised safety concerns about the opportunity for resuming the Candidates Tournament under such times and circumstances. Not surprisingly, he found an ally in Australian Grandmaster Ian Rogers, who argued that “Moving the tournament seems like a sensible suggestion by 王皓 (Wáng Hào)”. Mutatis mutandis, the ghost of Azerbaijani Grandmaster Teimour Boris oghlu Radjabov reappeared backstage as a metaphor for conscience, which put FIDE President Arkady Vladimirovich Dvorkovich before yet another dilemma: either to charter a fleet of airplanes, or to move the second act of the saga elsewhere. Interviewed by chess24.com, world’s No. 2 Fabiano Caruana couldn’t say whether November 1 (and Yekaterinburg) shall be the resumption date (and venue) or not: “I think there is a chance, but I can’t predict how much of a chance”. On the other hand, between past and future, there is no key to understand the original sin: “To be honest I think we should have just completed the tournament when we were there!”, Caruana said.