Who won the 2016 Candidates Tournament?
Fabiano Caruana
Anish Giri
Sergey Karjakin
Levon Aronian
Answer
The winner of the 2016 Candidates Tournament was Sergey Karjakin, a Russian chess grandmaster and former chess prodigy. The tournament was a 14-player round-robin event to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2016. Karjakin convincingly secured first place with a two-point margin, qualifying him to face Magnus Carlsen in the World Championship match later that year.
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