#Candidates
11 entries across 2 sections of the encyclopedia.
Tournament
1Players
10- Player Boris Gelfand
The grandmaster from Minsk who reached the World Championship match at forty-three — a Soviet-trained classicist whose career bridged the era of Karpov to that of Carlsen.
- Player Sergey Karjakin
The youngest grandmaster in history at twelve, the World Championship challenger at twenty-six, and one of the era's hardest players to beat with the black pieces.
- Player Vidit Gujrathi
Indian grandmaster, 2024 Candidates qualifier — the bridge between the Anand era and the Gukesh generation, both as competitor and team captain at the 2024 Olympiad.
- Player Vincent Keymer
Germany's first plausible world-championship contender since Emanuel Lasker — a calm positional grandmaster whose rise has paced the post-Carlsen era exactly.
- Player Alireza Firouzja
The youngest player to break 2800, the Iranian-born grandmaster who took French citizenship in 2021 and entered the world championship picture before…
- Player Fabiano Caruana
America's strongest player — twice runner-up at the World Championship, and the most deeply prepared opening theoretician of the engine era.
- Player Hikaru Nakamura
Five-time US champion and the most prolific online chess broadcaster ever — the player who showed that streaming and grandmaster chess could coexist.
- Player Ian Nepomniachtchi
Russia's strongest current player — twice the world championship challenger, both times unsuccessful, both times after dominating Candidates Tournaments.
- Player Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu
The Chennai-born prodigy who became the youngest international master in history, then a grandmaster at twelve, then a Candidates contender in his teens.
- Player Viktor Korchnoi
The Soviet defector who twice challenged Karpov for the world title — and the longest-active world-class player in the modern era.