L2C 030: Our 2026 Candidates Tournament Player intro and Fantasy Tournament Intro

In this episode, we introduce the 8 contestants in the 2026 Candidates Tournament. The winner will get the chance to play for the World Championship of Chess later this year against the current World Champion Gukesh. We also provided all the details you need to enter the even more prestigious Fantasy Chess Tournament for predicting the best team of 4 players.

And don't forget to enter your team selection into our Fantasy Chess League for the upcoming Candidates tournament.  The rules are posted on our social media on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.

Please let us know if you are going to try this and please please let us know if you do and how it goes.  We would love to hear all about it.  

Did we get something wrong?  Were we remiss in not asking a question or discuss and area you are interested in?

Let us know at [email protected] If you have any thoughts, topics and/or guest ideas, or solutions, please let us know.  

Welcome to the board.

We hope you enjoy the show!

For a link to the podcast, please use:  https://tinyurl.com/L2CCandidates2026Intro

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Da Rules:

1)  You have a budget of 1,000 units

2)  Points are scored for each player on your team's wins and draws.

3)  Total team points at the end of the tournament wins

4)  The tie breaker if needed, is your prediction of the top 4 in order.  These choices do not have to be from your team from above.  

Costs:  

Fabiano Caruana                          474

Hikaru Nakamura                          383

Javokhir Sindarov                          302

R Praggnanandhaa                        277

Anish Giri                                     237

Wei Yi                                          184

Andrey Esipenko                           111

Matthias Blübaum                         33

Send in your entries to:

[email protected] or on our Instagram, Youtube channel comments, Facebook group, or Discord channel.