Toronto Candidates - Last Resources

The two FIDE Candidate tournaments start tomorrow. After a series of four consecutive preliminary posts, starting with Toronto Candidates - Kickoff (March 2024), we're one day away from the real deal. Since there is nothing to say about the results, let's list some of the resources.

First, here are some general references. The TWIC pages are good for getting a bird's eye view of the two main events -- the Candidates and the Women's Candidates -- without having to scroll past the dozens of large, extraneous photos that the other main chess sites use to illustrate their reports.

• FIDE Candidates 2024 (theweekinchess.com; TWIC)
• FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2024 (ditto)
• FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024: All The Information (chess.com)

Next, here are some predictions. The favorite appears to be Fabiano Caruana.

• 2024-03-29: Who The Stats Say Will Be The Next World Championship Challenger (chess.com; NathanielGreen)
• 2024-04-02: Candidates: Who will win? (chessbase.com)
• 2024-04-03: FIDE Candidates 2024: Preview and Predictions (lichess.org)
• 2024-04-03: Magnus Carlsen Ranks The Candidates Players (chess.com; TarjeiJS)

One of the traditions on this blog has been to track the round-by-round progress of the players compared with the winners of previous events. For example:-

• Madrid Candidates - First Week (June 2022) • 'Chart showing the round-by-round progress of the participants in the 2013, 2014, and 2016 candidates tournaments [...] New chart for the 2018 and 2020 tournaments'

I'll do the same for the next post -- which should also be a 'First Week' post -- by adapting the chart developed for 2022 Candidates Tournament (m-w.com; see 'Cumulative Score'). I've always been impressed at how fast the main contestants can be identified. There is only one real prize : first place and a crack at the World Championship. Second place is the same as last place.