Challengers include Hikaru Nakamura, Ding Liren, Teimour Radjabov and Fabiano Caruana.
With his win over Duda today, Nakamura moved to 7 1/2. Ding's draw with Firouzja left Ding at 7. Ding and Naka play each other in tomorrow's final round (with Ding having the white pieces). With Radjabov and Caruana each at 6 1/2, second place must go either to Naka or Ding.
An impressive performance for Naka, who'd "retired" from professional chess, played at the classical time control, a couple of years ago to become a full-time "streamer." Naka has certainly enhanced his online brand as a consequence of his comeback in this Candidates.
Ding verses Hikaru tomorrow will be a hard fought game.
Looking forward to it,