Hilarious! From Anand to Giri, chess stars get Candidates venue wrong — Watch

The FIDE World Cup is presently taking spot successful Goa, bringing unneurotic apical chess players from astir the world, including Levon Aronian and Dutch No. 1 Anish Giri.A humorous video has gone viral connected societal media, wherever players were asked astir the determination of the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026."Either successful Saint-Louis oregon successful Chennai," said Levon."I americium going to accidental that I americium not sure. So I volition astir apt blab it out," said five-time satellite champion and FIDE lawman president Vishwanathan Anand.Various players offered antithetic predictions. Arjun Erigiasi suggested Argentina, portion Anish Giri and Ediz Gurel some mentioned London, with Giri claiming wrong information.WATCH:

MVL predicted Kazakhstan, and Faustino Oro named Poland. However, FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich aboriginal revealed that Cyprus would big some the 2026 Candidates and Women's Candidates tournaments.The tournaments are scheduled to instrumentality spot from March 28 to April 16, 2026, astatine the Cap St Georges Hotel & Resort adjacent Paphos, connected Cyprus's south-western coast.The Indian chess federation (AICF) had expressed involvement successful hosting the prestigious event. The Women's Candidates tourney victor volition situation China's Ju Wenjun for the Women's World Championship.Several players person already qualified for the Candidates tournament.

These see Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Matthias Bluebaum, and Hikaru Nakamura.India's R Praggnanandhaa is favoured to unafraid the 2025 FIDE Circuit topper's presumption adjacent month. The ongoing FIDE World Cup volition supply 3 much spots for the Candidates.Five Indian players, including Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi, and Pentala Harikrishna, stay among the 32 contestants competing for these 3 positions successful Goa.In the women's category, Indian players Divya Deshmukh and Koneru Humpy person secured their spots successful the Women's Candidates tourney done the FIDE Women's World Cup."The Candidates Tournament is the last and hardest trial for immoderate chess subordinate wishing to instrumentality connected a satellite champion successful a lucifer for the title, and it is the astir hard hurdle successful the satellite title cycle," said FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich, noting Cyprus's erstwhile acquisition hosting FIDE Women's Grand Prix events twice.