In 1976, Spassky was obliged to return to the Interzonal stage, and finished in a tie for tenth place in Manila, well short of qualifying for the Candidates matches, but was nominated to play after Fischer declined his place.

Candidates for the Gurkha Contingent Singapore Police Force, are also selected at this stage

), thereby reaching a second successive Candidates match stage, but again lost in the quarterfinals, this time to Polugaevsky.

Seeded first, he scored 5 / 7 points to qualify for the round-robin stage against 1991 champion and current Candidates Player Gata Kamsky, 2006 champion Alexander Onischuk, and 2008 champion Yuri Shulman.

Friðrik's best result in World Chess Championship competition was in the 1958 Interzonal tournament at Portorož, where he finished equal 5th-6th, automatically earning the grandmaster title and qualifying for the 1959 Candidates Tournament ( the last stage to determine the challenger to the World Chess Champion ) in 1960.

He qualified for the 1953 Candidates ' Tournament ( the last stage to determine the challenger to the World Chess Champion ), finishing joint tenth of the fifteen participants.

During the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the world's strongest players and reached the Candidates stage of competition for the world chess championship, but was never able to compete for the actual title.

He did reach the stage of the Candidates matches of 1977-78 but was eliminated in the first round, in a close match versus the former world champion Boris Spassky.

His pursuit of the world championship was rather less successful, as he never advanced to the Candidates stage of the process for selecting a challenger for the title.

He was active mainly during the 1960s and 1970s and qualified for the 1964 Interzonal stage of the process for selecting a challenger for the World Chess Championship, but finished fifteenth in the Interzonal held in Amsterdam, so did not advance to the Candidates matches held in 1965.

In 1983 he was ranked third in the Elo rating list, but he never succeeded in reaching the Candidates Tournament stage of the World Championship.

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.

* 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.

Candidates for deputy had to be able to read and write, and have a certain amount of wealth.

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 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 ".

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

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.

Karpov defeated Lev Polugaevsky by the score of + 3 = 5 in the first Candidates ' match, earning the right to face former champion Boris Spassky in the semifinal round.

Candidates must provide 30, 000 signatures from at least 15 provinces, or 30 members of a chamber of the legislature, or nomination by a party holding at least one seat in the legislature.

Candidates are identified by public or private bodies, by government departments or are nominated by members of the public.

Candidates receive matching funds, up to a limit, when they are outspent by privately-funded candidates, attacked by independent expenditures, or their opponent benefits from independent expenditures.

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

In the 1974 Candidates ' matches, Spassky first defeated American Robert Byrne in San Juan, Puerto Rico by 4½ – 1½ (+ 3 − 0 = 3 ); he then lost the semifinal match to Anatoly Karpov in Leningrad, despite winning the first game, (+ 1 − 4

He triumphed in extra games in his quarterfinal Candidates ' match over Vlastimil Hort at Reykjavík 1977 by 8½ – 7½.

His next Candidates ' match was against Portisch at Geneva 1977, and Spassky won by 8½ – 6½, to qualify for the final.

* Boris Spassky vs Efim Geller, Sukhumi Candidates ' match 1968, game 6, Sicilian Defence, Closed Variation ( B25 ), 1 – 0 One of three beautiful wins by Spassky over Geller in this match using the same variation, which is one of Spassky's favorites.

Candidates for membership in the Hockey Hall of Fame are nominated by an 18-person selection committee.

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.

In Wijk aan Zee Kramnik shared fifth with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and in the Candidates he was eliminated by Alexander Grischuk.

Candidates are nominated annually by Canada's five broadcasting associations and the executive committee of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (" CAB ").

Candidates of the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union, who despite their party's official stance of not non-affiliation, were deemed sympathetic to the coalition and ran unopposed by other blue candidates in almost all the seats it contested.

He earned the title of Grandmaster by coming in second in the Stockholm tournament, and qualified for the 1953 Candidates Tournament.

Candidates for positions in the civil service and the officers corps of the military were required to pass the imperial examination, as required by the Classics.

The minimum age of the Candidates is decided by the Weyrleaders and may be changed according to the Weyr's needs.

The United States is one of the few countries to select candidates through a primary election system ; most countries rely on party leaders to vet candidates, as previously happened in the U. S. Candidates for U. S. President who seek their party's nomination participate in primary elections run by state governments, or caucuses run by the political parties.