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FIDE postponed the Candidates: first reactions on Twitter
3/26/2020 – After Russia closed down air traffic from and to Russia the FIDE announced this morning that it will cancel and postpone the Candidates Tournament 2020 to allow players to get home. It did not take long before the first reactions followed on Twitter. Here is a small selection.
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Stopping the Candidates
Breaking News! The FIDE stops the Candidates Tournament!https://t.co/9phtQdwH1s pic.twitter.com/sN9li1x6fN
— ChessBase (@ChessBase) March 26, 2020
This morning the tournament came to a sudden end.
The Candidates is over for now. The hard part still remains: getting home. I expect to re-enter a world I'll hardly recognize.
— Fabiano Caruana (@FabianoCaruana) March 26, 2020
Good luck and see you soon!
I'm not seeing any real problem, can't Fabi just drive home? pic.twitter.com/dX0UofmgXe
— MrDodgy is staying indoors and you should too (@ChessProblem) March 26, 2020
This shouldn't take more than 80 minutes...I meant days!
It was a fascinating ride. Flying back to Amsterdam today. #FIDECandidates
— Lennart Ootes (@LennartOotes) March 26, 2020
The great chess photographer has an easier way home than Caruana and will probably share a flight with Anish Giri.
Hope every Candidate gets home safe!! ♟️
— SCV Chess (@chess_scv) March 26, 2020
That's a great wish!
I thought we had seen the end of adjournments in #chess, but we have regrettably had to reintroduce them for the Candidates.
— Nigel Short (@nigelshortchess) March 26, 2020
At least it didn't happen in the middle of a game.
#FIDECandidates #Justice for @rajachess
— Rauf Mamedov (@muisback88) March 26, 2020
Many people start to wonder how this decision affects Teimour Radjabov.
#FIDECandidates Fairest thing would be to finish this tournament at a later date, and then seed Radjabov through to the next one in 2022 automatically.
— Daniel Gormally (@elgransenor1) March 26, 2020
Other's seem to be more angry.
I hope at least now @FIDE_chess will accept responsibility and apologize to the whole chess community for not postponing the World Senior Team in Prague as well as #FIDECandidates in Yekaterinburg. What happens to @rajachess now?
— Harikrishna (@HariChess) March 26, 2020
An emotional post by Pentala Harikrishna
With the FIDE Candidates 2020 stopped, what do you think should happen with Teimour Radjabov?
— ChessBase India (@ChessbaseIndia) March 26, 2020
Read more: https://t.co/qIiU2nYILu pic.twitter.com/hAOmnXeA5n
What do you think, dear reader?
https://t.co/qVH1WMr7Ar Just a friendly reminder 😁
— Teymur Rajabov (@rajachess) March 26, 2020
This was Teimour Radjabov's response to Magnus Carlsen, pointing out that Radjabov could have played at the tournament, if he wanted to play.
Exactly my point though? If I had desperately wanted to play, I would have played https://t.co/xCfMqv7n14
— Magnus Carlsen (@MagnusCarlsen) March 26, 2020
The World Champion is not done yet
Magnus, in my case I have just asked to postpone the event, not to cancel it, nor changing the cycle, or format. I think this was the right thing to do at the time for FIDE. That’s it. Not stopping it halfway through. I was eager to play. Now it’s a mess.
— Teymur Rajabov (@rajachess) March 26, 2020
This escalated quickly
#FIDECandidates - Currently there's no perfect solution--either Radjabov gets screwed, or MVL does. Perhaps it would be possible to include Raja back in, restart the tournament, and pay out the prize fund as if the tournament ended with the current standings. 9-man RR coming?
— Kostya Kavutskiy (@hellokostya) March 26, 2020
One of many possible solutions
What will happen now?
— Leon Watson ♛ (@LeonWatson) March 26, 2020
According to the rules the #FIDECandidates will be resumed with the same number of points.
But won't the integrity of the competition be affected?Some players have been playing unsure if they'll get home etc, while others haven't. I don't know. https://t.co/FvB7bbo26g
Valid points
#Candidates2020 chess tournament now postponed due to #CoronavirusPandemic. With this, the last sporting event that was played on planet earth is now affected. Officially, there is NO sports of any kind on the planet https://t.co/TWRcpPLt30
— News Nation (@NewsNationTV) March 26, 2020
Well, you can always play chess online.
Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check! - Aaron Nimzowitsch
— ChessQuotes (@chess_chat) March 26, 2020
Sometimes things are just too dangerous.
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