China’s world No 2, Ding Liren, is poised to join Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja and five other top GMs in the Candidates, while Carlsen wins online despite scare
Two months ahead of the tournament, who are the favourites and who are the outsiders? Caruana and Nepomniachtchi have already played for the world crown, Firouzja has been breaking age records in his stellar ascent, while Ding has performed creditably in previous Candidates despite adverse circumstances in 2020-21 when he had to quarantine before the start. This quartet have to be the prime favourites.
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