Daniel Rensch

Co-founder of Chess.com

“Interesting dark horse prediction — Wei Yi. He’s only a dark horse because people just forget how incredibly good this guy is. But don’t be surprised if Wei Yi wins the Candidates!

Maybe, Wei Yi is playing some of the best chess of his career. And we just forget that that guy has been a prodigy since before.

Obviously, he doesn’t have the global following that Hikaru does, doesn’t have the Candidates history that Fabiano has, he is not as loud as Anish Giri is on Twitter and so on. You just don’t really think of Wei Yi’s personality.

But still, I don’t know why, but I have this sneaking suspicion that Wei Yi is going to be the one walking away with the trophy.”