ARMENIA’S ARONIAN TO FIRST FACE NORWAY’S CARLSEN

March 6

The World Chess Federation (FIDE) held the draws for the 2013 World
Chess Candidates Tournament, which will be held in London.

In the first round-robin of the event, which will get underway on
March 14, Grandmaster (GM) Levon Aronian-who plays first board for
the three-time World Chess Olympiad champion Armenian national team
and who is third in the FIDE rankings-first will play against FIDE’s
number-one-ranked, GM Magnus Carlsen (Norway).

In the first round-robin, Aronian next will face GMs Boris Gelfand
(Israel), Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Peter Svidler (Russia), Vladimir
Kramnik (Russia), Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan), and Alexander Grischuk
(Russia), respectively.

The Candidates, which is a double round-robin event, will come to an
end on April 1.

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