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Polgar Challenge winner
Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave are playing in the Candidates Tournament and therefore couldn’t accept their automatic qualifying spots for those in the top 8 of the tour standings, but Wesley So, Magnus Carlsen, Teimour Radjabov, Levon Aronian and Hikaru Nakamura all play.
17-year-old superstar Alireza Firouzja was voted back in by chess24 premium members, who also voted for Daniil Dubov, but the Russian was unable to play as he’s commentating on the Candidates from Yekaterinburg.
15-year-old Praggnanandhaa now has the chance to face off against the very best in the world after dominating the first event on the Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour. He’s going to have some help preparing from the very best.
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The youngest in the field
The new tour organized by the Play Magnus Group counts with the support of two legends of the royal game, former world champion Vladimir Kramnik and the strongest woman player in history Judit Polgar. Both stars had been working on projects related to chess after retiring from professional competition. Polgar organized the Judit Polgar’s Global Chess Festival while Kramnik worked with Boris Gelfand in training camps for young Indian talents.
In their latest enterprise, they are the leaders of two teams of youngsters at the Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour. The first tournament of the tour, the Polgar Challenge, kicked off on Thursday, with the first 5 rounds of a 20-player single round robin event.