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Originally Posted by ScottTK
BJJ, are you going to wait for the World Cup winner to post the current Candidates status?
Topalov and Giri must be pretty much locks to qualify, right?
That means we can only speculate on the wildcard now.
I think this is true but I'm sure that BBJ will clear it all up fairly soon.
And the wildcard is very likely to come from the country that hosts the Candidates tourney. Nakamura said that it's not going to be in the US as St Louis is the only place that could host it and the Sinquefields aren't interested, also they have 2 people taking part already, as do Russia.
Iirc you have to be above 2725 in the July FIDE list to qualify for a wildcard spot so only Mickey Adams would qualify from the UK and he can't win, so we could get a Russian bid for Kramnik or an Armenian bid for Aronian but I personally think the Chinese will make a bid for Ling Diren.