We’ve got 6 rounds in the books and GM Ian Nepomniathchtchi and GM Fabiano Caruana are comfortably in first and 2nd place, respectively. GM Jonathan Tisdall is an American born, Norway based author, journalist and is the 3 time champion of Norway. Jonathan has been covering high level chess for decades, so it was great to get his thoughts on the first 6 rounds of the Candidates which have surprised a lot of people.
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03:00- GM Jonathan Tisdall joins the show.
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16:00- Will Magnus defend against these guys?
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30:00- Do we like the fact the clocks don’t have increments for this tournament?
39:00- Why does Nepo excel against everyone but Magnus?
45:00- Double blindness! We were referencing this moment in Anand’s game”
https://twitter.com/norwaychess/status/1534982377293893633?lang=bg
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2288820
53:00- When will Jonathan’s next book finally come out?
Mentioned: Nick Doody
57:00- We almost forgot to talk about GM Ding Liren!
1:00:00- Thanks to GM Tisdall for joining the show! You can follow him on Twitter here:
https://twitter.com/GMjtis?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
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