His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

* The top players of the day: world champion Mikhail Botvinnik, and those who had qualified for ( or been seeded into ) the inaugural Candidates Tournament in 1950: Isaac Boleslavsky, Igor Bondarevsky, David Bronstein, Max Euwe, Reuben Fine, Salo Flohr, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Andor Lilienthal, Miguel Najdorf, Samuel Reshevsky, Vasily Smyslov, Gideon Ståhlberg, and László Szabó.

# Any player qualifying from the Interzonal tournament to play in the Candidates Tournament, even if he did not play in the Candidates for any reason.

She then confirmed her status as one of the world's leading players, narrowly failing to qualify for the Candidates Tournaments at the rival FIDE and PCA Interzonal tournaments.

In May – June 2007 she played in the Candidates Tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007.

Candidates for an undergraduate degree must also pass oral and written comprehensive exams in their major field of study.

Candidates for members of parliament are voted upon when the prime minister asks the Governor-General to call a national election, a maximum of five years after the previous national election.

Candidates for bishop are chosen only from among the celibate.

Some of political parties from Catalonia, the Valencian Country and the Balearic Islands that follow this idea are the Republican Left of Catalonia, Catalan Solidarity for Independence ( SI ), Rally for Independence and Republican Left of the Valencian Country, Estat Català, Partit Republicà Català, Popular Unity Candidates, Valencian Nationalist Bloc, Bloc per Mallorca, etc.

Candidates for office, like Jill Stein who is running to become the party's 2012 presidential contender, rely on smaller donations to fund their campaigns.

* Warrant officer candidate school, the entry-level training for Warrant Officer Candidates in the United States Army

* Candidates for government office must take civil-service examinations.

Category: Candidates for the Polish elective throne

Category: Candidates for the Polish elective throne

Category: Candidates for the Polish elective throne

Category: Candidates for the Polish elective throne

Category: Candidates for the French presidential election, 2007

Candidates for " safe districts " are determined by the central party office.

Candidates were disqualified for petty reasons such as acts of vandalism against campaign posters.

Candidates could not be nominated by organizations and associations but had to run for district office on the basis of personal qualifications and service to their communities.

Candidates for admission generally must both apply directly to the academy and receive a nomination, usually from a Member of Congress.

Candidates for the Forbes list were fugitives thought to be dangerous who had " a long history of committing serious crimes ", who had been indicted or charged with a crime in a national jurisdiction or by an international tribunal, and who were involved with a type of criminal activity " with which legal institutions in diverse jurisdictions are grappling ".

Candidates are recommended by an advisory panel composed of the chief justice of British Columbia, the chief justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the chief judge of the Provincial Court, the president of the Law Society of British Columbia, a Law Society member appointed by the benchers ( directors ) and the deputy attorney general.

Candidates had to be at least 30 years old.

Candidates to profession were tested to reveal whether they were actually married women who had merely separated from their husbands.

* 2008-All US Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates had their own Cabbage Patch Kids.

The Candidates stage had by this time reverted to its traditional match format: Short defeated Gyula Sax (+ 2 = 3 ) in Saint John, Canada, in 1988, but then unexpectedly lost (− 2 = 3 ) to his countryman, Jon Speelman, in London.

Bronstein became the eventual Candidates ' winner over Boleslavsky in a ( Moscow ) 1950 playoff match, following two overtime match games, after the two had tied in Budapest, and then again remained level over the 12 scheduled match games.

At the 1958 Interzonal in Portorož, Bronstein, who had been picked as clear pre-event favorite by Bobby Fischer, missed moving on to the 1959 Candidates ' by half a point, dropping a last-round game to the much weaker Filipino Rodolfo Tan Cardoso, when the electrical power failed due to a thunderstorm during the game, and he was unable to regain concentration.

Following this game, he had a meteoric rise, winning the 1957 U. S. Open on tiebreaks, winning the 1957 – 58 U. S. ( Closed ) Championship ( and all seven later championships he played in ), qualifying for the Candidates Tournament and becoming in 1958 the world's youngest grandmaster at age 15.

Smyslov had again won the Candidates ' Tournament at Amsterdam in 1956, which led to another world championship match against Botvinnik in 1957.

* Robert Fischer vs Vasily Smyslov, Candidates ' Tournament, Yugoslavia 1959, Sicilian Defence, Fischer / Sozin Variation ( B86 ), 0 – 1 The 16-year-old Fischer had honed this opening line into a formidable weapon, but here Smyslov shows him a few new wrinkles.

Candidates had to be between their fourteenth and sixteenth birthdays on July 1 following the examination.

An original system on the Black side of the Closed Ruy Lopez ( 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. 0-0 Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 0-0 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Nd7 ) was introduced by Keres at the 1962 Candidates ' tournament, and it had a run of popularity for several years.

Candidates who did not get an ' A ' or ' B ' Bursary had their Bursary scores count toward University Entrance provided their subjects scored at least 40 %.

While he was able to recover and to resume his chess career in 1991 with matches against Predrag Nikolić and ( in 1992 ) Yasser Seirawan, followed by intermittent tournament appearances, his chance at the world title had passed and he did not reach the Candidates matches again.

However, in the Candidates matches en route to becoming the challenger, Fischer had demolished world-class grandmasters Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen, each by a perfect score of 6 – 0, something no one else has ever done in any Candidates match.

Candidates for the doctoral dissertation in the History of Art in 1938 at Vienna University had to fulfill prerequisites in the formal study of the role of Jungian archetypes in art, and in art as an expression of the Freudian subconscious.

FIDE stripped Kasparov of the FIDE World Championship title, and instead held a rival match between Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman, the two final players Short had defeated to win the Candidates Tournament.

Candidates for this special election were chosen by the party committees because the vacancy had happened too late to set up a primary.

Candidates in these three ratings had to obtain the appropriate Navy Enlisted Classification ( NEC ) ( HM 8404 / DT 8707 / RP 2401 ).

Candidates had to be at least 18, possess a high school diploma, and have graduated at the top of their High School class.