LEVON ARONIAN INVITED TO FIDE GRAND-PRIX 2014-2015

09:59, 21 August, 2014

YEREVAN, AUGUST 21, ARMENPRESS. The leader of the Armenian men’s
chess team Levon Aronian has been invited to participate in the FIDE
Grand-Prix 2014-2015.

FIDE announces the full details of the Grand-Prix 2014-2015, from which
the first two (2) winners will qualify to the Candidates Tournament
of the World Chess Championship Cycle 2014-2016.

The schedule of the four events is the following:

a.) 1 – 15 October 2014: Baku, Azerbaijan b.) 20 October – 3 November
2014: Tashkent, Uzbekistan c.) 14 – 28 February 2015: Tehran, Iran
d.) 13 – 27 May 2015: Moscow, Russia

As reports “Armenpress” citing the FIDE official website, in total 16
players will participate, 11 qualifiers as per regulations (listed
below) plus 4 nominees from the organisers (to be announced) plus 1
nominee of the FIDE President (to be announced).

The 11 original qualifiers who have to confirm their participation
by 27 August 2014 are:

01. Carlsen, Magnus (World Champion) 02. Anand, Wiswanathan (World
Ch. match 2013) 03. Kramnik, Vladimir (World Cup winner 2013)
04. Andreikin, Dmitry (World Cup runner-up 2013) 05. Tomashevsky,
Evgeny (World Cup semi-finalist 2013) 06. Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime
(World Cup semi-finalist 2013) 07. Aronian, Levon (Average Rating List
5/2013 to 4/2014) 08. Caruana, Fabiano (Average Rating List 5/2013
to 4/2014) 09. Grischuk, Alexander (Average Rating List 5/2013 to
4/2014) 10. Nakamura, Hikaru (Average Rating List 5/2013 to 4/2014)
11. Topalov, Veselin (Average Rating List 5/2013 to 4/2014)

The first reserves for any replacement needed are:

1. Karjakin, Sergey (Average Rating List 5/2013 to 4/2014) 2. Gelfand,
Boris (Average Rating List 5/2013 to 4/2014) 3. Mamedyarov, S (Average
Rating List 5/2013 to 4/2014).

Each player will play in 3 tournaments and all his results will be
taken into account for the overall final standings of the Grand-Prix.