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OT-World CHESS Championship 2013

Posted By: Leonardo Jerkovic
Date: Saturday, 4 August 2012, at 4:07 a.m.

In Response To: Chess Question (Paul Weaver)

The World Chess Championship 2013 will be a match between the World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand, the winner of the World Chess Championship 2012, and a challenger, to determine the 2013 World Chess Champion. It will be held under the auspices of FIDE, the World Chess Federation in October – November, 2013.

The challenger to the match will be decided using an eight-player double round-robin tournament to be held in London from March 13 to March 31, 2013. The eight players will - in order of rules announced by FIDE - consist of

The top three finishers in the Chess World Cup 2011

Peter Svidler (Russia) Alexander Grischuk (Russia) Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine)

Loser of World Chess Championship match 2012

Boris Gelfand (Israel)

The next three highest rated players in the world

(average from July 2011 and January 2012 FIDE rating lists) Magnus Carlsen (Norway) Levon Aronian (Armenia) Vladimir Kramnik (Russia)

Candidates Tournament Organizing committee's wild card (FIDE Rating in January 2012 min. 2700)

Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan)

Any replacements will be determined from the average rating of the July 2011 and January 2012 lists (Sergey Karjakin (2779.5), Veselin Topalov (2768.5))

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