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Candidates Tournament 2026, a Legendary card
The 2026 Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess tournament, held to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2026.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 172
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,600,000
Power 172 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Candidates Tournament 2026 quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Candidates Tournament 2026 card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
As with every Candidates Tournament since 2013, it was a ______ round-robin tournament.
Answer
double. As with every Candidates Tournament since 2013, it was a double round-robin tournament. From the Candidates Tournament 2026 article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
2023 Houston Astros season. 2023 Houston Astros season 99 · List of Sri Lanka Test cricket records 91 · M. A. Chidambaram Stadium 81 · Candidates Tournament 2026 78 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Candidates Tournament 2026. Candidates Tournament 2026 1,600,000 · M. A. Chidambaram Stadium 100,000 · Tom Starke 11,000 · List of Sri Lanka Test cricket records 8,500 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The tournament took place at the Cap St Georges Hotel and Resort in Pegeia, Cyprus, between 28 March and 16 April 2026, alongside the Women's Candidates Tournament 2026.
- As with every Candidates Tournament since 2013, it was a double round-robin tournament.
- Javokhir Sindarov won five of the first six rounds, winning the tournament with a round to spare and setting a points record for the Candidates in the process.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Candidates Tournament 2026 article was read about 1,600,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Candidates Tournament 2026
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Candidates Tournament 2026 (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : MiroJP, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.


