Praggnanandhaa vs Alireza Firouzja, LIVE FIDE Chess Candidates 2024: Round 8 match updates, live board
India’s R. Praggnanandhaa takes on France’s Alireza Firouzja in a round eight encounter in the FIDE Candidates tournament in Toronto, Canada on Sunday.
Check out the board below to follow all moves from the match ↓
Round 8 Pairings
Hikaru Nakamura – Fabiano Caruana
Ian Nepomniachtchi – Nijat Abasov
Praggnanandhaa R – Alireza Firouzja
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi – Gukesh D
Women’s
Kateryna Lagno – Aleksandra Goryachkina
Nurgyul Salimova – Anna Muzychuk
Tan Zhongyi – Lei Tingjie
Humpy Koneru – Vaishali Rameshbabu
Format
Both the Candidates and the Women’s Candidates are a double round-robin tournament with each player playing the rest of the field twice in a total of 14 rounds.
Players get 1 point for a win, ½ point for a draw and 0 points for a loss.
Time Control
The time control for the open category is 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, plus a 30-second increment per move starting from move 41.
For the women’s category, it is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, plus a 30-second increment per move starting from move one.