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Aronian will meet Anand in 1st round of Candidates World Chess Championship

Aronian will meet Anand in 1st round of Candidates World Chess Championship

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 12, ARMENPRESS:  FIDE has published the tournament list of the Candidates World Chess Championship to be held in Khanty – Mansiysk city of Russia in March.

Leader of the Armenian Men’s Chess Team Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Shakhriyar Mammadyarov , Dmitry Andreikin, Sergey Karjakin, Viswanathan Anand and Peter Svidler will participate in the tournament.

In the first round of the tournament Aronian will meet the former World Champion, Viswanathan Anand with the blacks. In the last 14th round he will meet Sergey Karjakin.

The tournament will be held in two rounds.

Levon Aronian is an Armenian chess Grandmaster. On the May 2012 FIDE list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2825, making him the third highest rated player in history.

Aronian won the Chess World Cup 2005. He led the Armenian national team to the Gold medals in the 2006 (Turin), 2008 (Dresden)and 2012 (Istanbul) Chess Olympics and at the World Team Chess Championship in Ningbo 2011. He won the FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2010, qualifying him for the Candidates tournament for the World Chess Championship 2012, where he was knocked out in the first round. He was also World Chess960 Champion in 2006 and 2007, World Rapid Chess Champion in 2009, and World Blitz Chess Champion in 2010.








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