Mumbai, Nov. 13 -- Trailer out for the six-episode series CANDIDATES that followed India's chess prodigies for two and a half years, from a heartbreaking Olympiad blunder to the world title

Premieres free on YouTube on 22 November, coinciding with the opening ceremony of Gukesh's World Championship defence in Geneva.

MUMBAI, 13 November 2026: Dopamine Media & Entertainment today released the official trailer for CANDIDATES, a six-episode series about a generation of Indian chess prodigies: D Gukesh, R Praggnanandhaa, R Vaishali, Arjun Erigaisi and Vidit Gujrathi. Filmed between June 2022 and December 2024, the series follows them from a heartbreaking blunder at the 2022 Chess Olympiad in Chennai to the moment Gukesh, at 18, became the y...