Candidates pick up the pieces in disrupted hunt for chess title match

It was the longest halftime break in the history of tournament chess and perhaps all of sports, but Round 8 of the FIDE Candidates Tournament to pick a challenger to world champion Magnus Carlsen finally was played Monday, some 389 days after Round 7 was completed. The eight-grandmaster, double round-robin ...

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