2021 World Chess Championship

reportedly will happen in Dubai at the EXPO 😲

They need to get the candidates finished. FIDE says mid - Spring.
A reminder how it stands after seven rounds.

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 4.½
Ian Nepomniachtchi 4.½
Wang Hao 3.½
Anish Giri 3.½
Alexander Grischuk 3.½
Fabiano Caruana 3.½
Ding Liren 2.½
Kirill Alekseenko 2.½

@greenpawn34
How many more rounds to play? Surprised to see Caruana down a full point.

They are halfway done. I think there are 14 rounds total (double round robin). The whole first half of the tournament was scary. It was the only sporting event going on in the world and no one understood the virus at all. Many of the players, including Caruana, were terrified. No doubt, the distractions affected play. FIDE stopped the tournament because Russia announced there would be no more flights in or out of the country.

Giri ended 2nd at Wijk aan Zee ... Caruana took 4th