Sentence examples for tournament candidate from inspiring English sources

And then there was David Pocock at No 8, who put down a huge marker as a "player of the tournament" candidate.

In the 32-team tournament, 51 candidates are still vying for the 22 spots available.

Last year Anand lost the title to Carlsen, but bounced back and against all odds won this year's Candidate tournament to meet the Norwegian again.

With tournament selection, each candidate solution competes against a random subset of the remaining solutions.

However, Carlsen participated in the 2013 Candidates Tournament in London.

A month after the Candidates Tournament, I met up with Aronian at a hotel in London.

With his Candidates' Tournament victory, Carlsen will now challenge Anand in the next World Chess Championship, to be played in the fall.

There is no question that Carlsen was a huge draw at the Candidates' Tournament, a grueling event in which eight top-ranked players played one another twice.

The Candidates Tournament to select a challenger for the world champion Viswanathan Anand ended on Monday with one of the most exciting finishes in chess history.

CHESS The chess column last Sunday about the Candidates Tournament in London to select a challenger for the world championship misidentified one of the competitors in some editions.

In 1953, Mr. Smyslov earned the right to challenge Mr. Botvinnik for the title after he won the candidates tournament in Zurich.