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Candidates 2020-21 Live: Follow the games and commentary

by Sagar Shah - 27/04/2021

Candidates, the biggest tournament of 2021, is back. After half of the event being completed, we are now moving to the second half that will take place in Yekaterinberg, Russia from the 19-28th of April. The Round will begin each day at 4.30 p.m IST. On this page you can find not only the embed for the Live commentary of ChessBase India that will happen on YouTube, but also the Live games. You can also follow the reports of the previous rounds and download the annotated games of each round by IM Sagar Shah.

Live commentary:

Live commentary by IM Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal and guests

Live Games:

Completed Games:

Pairings for Round 13

Round 13 on 2021/04/26 at 14.00
Bo.No.RtgNameResultNameRtgNo.
172763GMWang HaoGMCaruana Fabiano28208
262789GMNepomniachtchi IanGMVachier-Lagrave Maxime27581
352696GMAlekseenko KirillGMDing Liren27912
442777GMGrischuk AlexanderGMGiri Anish27763

Standings after Round 12

Rk.SNoNameRtgPts. TB1  TB2  TB3  TB4 Krtg+/-
16GMNepomniachtchi Ian27898,00,0544,5028931016,2
23GMGiri Anish27767,50,0441,7528711014,9
31GMVachier-Lagrave Maxime27586,50,0338,002802107,7
48GMCaruana Fabiano28206,00,0236,00276310-9,4
54GMGrischuk Alexander27775,50,0134,25273710-6,8
67GMWang Hao27635,01,5127,50271310-8,7
72GMDing Liren27915,00,5229,00271610-13,1
85GMAlekseenko Kirill26964,50,0126,00269510-0,8

Download all annotated games by IM Sagar Shah


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