Toronto Candidates - Wrapup

Having done as much as I wanted to do for the two recent candidate events -- the main event and the women's event -- it's time to wrap everything up. The equivalent post for the previous cycle, Madrid Candidates - Wrapup (August 2022), had 11 posts on this blog plus one on my main blog. This current effort has 14 posts plus one on the main blog.

• 2023-09-20: Forthcoming Events
• 2024-01-17: The Race for the 2024 Candidates Events
• 2024-03-06: Toronto Candidates - Kickoff • Crosstable showing the historical record of all previous games between the eight players.
• 2024-03-13: Toronto Candidates - Women • Ditto, but crosstable for women.
• 2024-03-20: Toronto Candidates - Visas
• 2024-03-27: Toronto Candidates - Sponsors
• 2024-04-03: Toronto Candidates - Last Resources
• 2024-04-10: Toronto Candidates - First Week
• 2024-04-17: Toronto Candidates - Second Week
• 2024-04-24: Toronto Candidates - Third Week
• 2024-05-15: A Soft-spoken Challenger • Video: 'Interview with FIDE Candidates winner Gukesh'.
• 2024-05-22: Toronto Candidates - Round by Round • Links to other reports.
• 2024-05-29: Toronto Candidates - Games with Most Views
• 2024-06-05: Toronto Candidates - Women

And from my main blog:-

• 2024-04-25: Candidate Yahoos • 'Of the 99 chess stories returned by Google News for the month of April, 27 were about the just concluded Candidates tournament'.

And that's a wrapup...

Toronto Candidates - Women

Due to severe time constraints, it's been a while since I posted Toronto Candidates - Third Week (April 2024). There I wrote,

I'll have a wrapup report on the entire event and a separate report on the Women’s Candidates as soon as I get a chance.

Let's have the Women’s Candidates first. Here is the crosstable as created by TWIC.

FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2024
(theweekinchess.com; TWIC)

The corresponding report started,

Tan Zhongyi is the clear winner of the Women's Candidates 2024 • Tan Zhongyi will challenge Ju Wenjun for the World Chess Championship in 2025. The 32 year old player was not the favourite for the event but her confident play dominated with only a round 8 loss to her closest challenger Lei Tingjie as a blemish in the event.

For a crosstable on the previous Women's Championship match, see 2023 Ju Wenjun - Lei Tingjie Title Match; Shanghai / Chongqing (China), VII, 2023. Both players were mentioned in the TWIC report quoted above.