What to do now with Radjabov?
The suspension of the 2020 Candidates Tournament is the
nightmare the World Chess Federation (FIDE) must have feared from the moment
they rejected Teimour Radjabov’s proposal to postpone the tournament and
replaced him with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. The question now arises of whether
the Azerbaijan player should somehow be included back in the tournament or get special
privileges for future events. We’d already heard from
Carlsen, Kramnik & Dvorkovich and here add the views of fellow players MVL,
Alekseenko & Giri as well as the Azerbaijan team, Karjakin and more.