Athletistic/ Others. The Candidates Chess Tournament is currently taking place in Madrid. The grandmasters are fighting for the right to fight with Norway’s Magnus Carlsen for the world chess crown. After nine rounds, the Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi is in the lead. He has five games left to play. Coach Vladimir Potkin spoke about it.

– All the most important things are ahead, despite the leading positions, Nepomniachtchi’s task is to play games at the limit of his abilities, to play chess, but also not to forget about the sense of danger.

The second round of the Candidates Tournament has its own laws: we see how some lose energy at this moment, while others, on the contrary, only open up. Chess players who did not have a good start to the tournament are now showing increased motivation and good play, like, for example, Radjabov and Firouzja. They felt the taste of victory, and this must also be taken into account – the opponents are gaining momentum, and Jan must show maximum concentration until the very end, but I’m sure he is an experienced chess player and keeps all this, of course, in his mind, TASS quotes Potkin.

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