The FIDE cycle is clear: a Candidates tournament decides the challenger, who then faces the champion in a long match—often 14 classical games. But the official length and intricate tiebreaks are just paperwork; the real work is the logistics of holding such an event in a city that has never seen one. We once spent three months persuading the municipal corporation just to waive the absurd ‘public entertainment tax’ on a national junior championship, a saga of stamped papers and chai-dokan meetings more complex than any Sicilian Defence.
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