(A chess play with an intermission on the covid. Candidates Tournament. Yekaterinburg 2020-2021). Candidates tournament, played in Yekaterinburg, Russia, first half in 2020, second half in 2021. Eight players played each other in a double roubed robin tournament. Ian Nepomniachtchi won with 8.5 points from 14 games and became the challenger to Magnus Carlsen in the World Championship match. He was followed by Vachier-Lagrave 8, Giri and Caruana 7.5, Ding Liren and Grischuk 7, Alekseenko 5.5 and Wang Hao 5. The author annotates in detail all 56 games and also describes the events that were related to the tournament, whether before it started or interrupted due to the pandemic, etc. The book includes a 14-page interview with Ian Nepomniachtchi. Vladimir Tukmakov is a respected coach (Karpov, Korchnoi, Giri, So, Azerbaijan, Netherlands, etc.), he himself was formerly one of world's top players. 2 pictures.
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