FIDE announces that the deadline for player's participation in the Candidates Tournament is 26 January 2018. The event will be held in Berlin, Germany from 8 March (arrivals/opening ceremony) to 29 March 2018 (departures) and the qualifiers are:
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Southend 2018
The 62nd Southend Chess Congress takes place 30 March-02 April 2018, Southend Adult Community College, Ambleside Drive, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 2UN.
Same conditions as last year...
For Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik, the stories were similar: they played very well against strong but somewhat lower-rated opponents (Maxim Matlakov and Wei Yi, respectively), had some hiccups once they achieved a serious advantage, but eventually managed to convert anyway.
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Actually, Wijk aan Zee is already there - if you want to freeze on the Dutch coastline, you can head there this very minute. What starts on Saturday is the great annual tournament there*, nowadays referred to as the Tata Steel Masters.
He claimed one of only two wins against American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura at the SA National Junior Chess Championships in Boksburg.