Candidates Tournament: Round 6 Highlights

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The Candidates Tournament serves as the pivotal final qualifying stage of the FIDE World Chess Championship cycle. This prestigious competition brings together eight of the planet’s most formidable chess grandmasters, who contend in a demanding double round-robin format over a total of fourteen rounds of classical chess.

In Saturday’s highly anticipated sixth round, the tournament’s current sole leader, Javokhir Sindarov, will be playing with the black pieces against his challenging opponent, Wei Yi.

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