Caruana's Reaction To The Insane World Cup Results

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Fabiano and Cristian discuss the surprising outcomes of the World Cup and the ongoing Candidates battles.

Consider Donating to the Daniel Naroditsky Memorial Fund | https://givebutter.com/naroditsky Fabiano and Cristian react to the World Cup's most insane matches and unexpected upsets so far. Almost all the top favorites are out, and the intense final battles for the Candidates are underway, here is our breakdown as we go into the semis! Episode sponsored by our friends at https://www.chessreps.com/ ♟️Play With Us: https://www.chess.com/join/csqpod?ref_id=207174611 👕MERCH: https://c-squared.shop/ 🌐 Website: https://c2pod.com/ ☕Buy Us A Coffee : buymeacoffee.com/c2pod 🐦Twitter/X : https://x.com/CSQpod 📸Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/csqpod/ 💬Discord : https://discord.gg/XeP3tENMTr 00:00 Intro 00:30 Danya's Memorial Fund 03:00 World Cup Review 08:28 Donchenko's Journey 12:39 Nodirbek Yakubboev's Journey 21:09 Jose Martinez's Journey 29:50 Lodici - The rising Italian Star 35:54 Shankland's Journey 37:00 Fabi's take on Dubov's 10 min Preparation 45:58 Esipenko's Journey 53:45 Fabi shares his World Cup experience 01:00:16 Wei Yi Vs Arjun Erigaisi 01:11:30 Candidates 2026

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Hosts: Fabiano Caruana, Cristian Chirila

Topics covered

• World Cup
• Candidates
• Chess
• Match Analysis
• Player Journeys

Keywords

• World Cup
• Candidates
• chess
• upsets
• player journeys

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