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#Live from #Madrid/#Spain in half an hour: Round 8 of the #Candidates2022-tournament:

Inter alia:
#Nepomniachtchi (leader) vs #DingLiren
#Firouzja(current LAST) vs #Radjabov

#Denksport:#Mindsports
#Schach:#Chess
#Sport:#Sports
Some people say that despite the rather high number of draws, the quality of the play is rather low in the #Candidates2022.
A (small) surprise today: semi-retired #Nakamura will probably defeat World-Championship-runnerup #Caruana:
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#Russia #Moscow #Spain #Madrid
What dose this say?

The #Iran forbidds his #chess player to travel to the championship in #Moscow. This latest spell by the #Iranian Ministry of #Sports is in response to an incident in mid-December during a tournament in #Spain.
Grandmasters Parham #Maghsoodloo and Amin #Tabatabaei had #played against an #Israeli #FIDE champion in a blitz tournament. Competition with #Israelis has been banned from #Iranian athletes for 36 years.
Now the best chess player of #Iran Alireza #Firouzja rejects this ban of the #Mullahs and wants to play in #Moskau under #FIDE flag. #IranProtests
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