CARLSEN'S ROAD TO THE WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Round 1Aronian-Carlsen:The Candidates Chess Tournamet 2013

 

FIDE World Chess Championship Candidates London 2013

The FIDE World Chess Championship Candidates take place in London 15th March to 1st April 2013. 14 Rounds 8 players in a double round robin. Round 1 on the 15th March 2013: Levon Aronian vs Magnus Carlsen, Boris Gelfand vs Teimour Radjabov, Vassily Ivanchuk vs Alexander Grischuk and Peter Svidler vs Vladimir Kramnik WEBSITE

4TH London Chess Classic 2012

Carlsen will be playing in the London Chess Classic from Dec 1-Dec 10th,2012 The participants are:Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Vishy Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Hikaru Nakamura, Judit Polgar, Mickey Adams, Luke McShane and Gawain Jones Website

FIDE Grand Prix London 2012

The 1st FIDE Grand Prix takes place in Simpson’s-in-the-Strand in London 20th September to 3rd October 2012. Play starts at 2pm each day. The field has undergone a number of changes. Nakamura, Ivanchuk, Grischuk, Topalov, Wang Hao, Gelfand, Leko, Giri, Mamedyarov, Dominguez Perez, Adams and Kasimdzhanov.

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45th Biel Chess Festival 2012

The Biel Chess Festival takes place from 23rd July. The event stars Magnus Carlsen whom the organisers secured at the last minute to replace Leinier Dominguez Perez. The players are Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Morozevich, Wang Hao, Etienne Bacrot and Anish Giri WEBSITE

2012 DORTMUND CHESS TOURNAMENT

The Sparkassen Chess-Meeting takes place in Dortmund 13th-22nd July 2012. 10 players in a single round robin: Daniel Fridman, Peter Leko, Fabiano Caruana, Georg Meier, Sergey Karjakin, Vladimir Kramnik, Mateusz Bartel, Arkadij Naiditsch, Ruslan Ponomariov and Jan Gustafsson. WEBSITE

7TH TAL MEMORIAL 2012

The Seventh Tal Memorial is a ten-player round robin with eight of the top eleven players in the world – Carlsen, Aronian, Kramnik, Radjabov, Nakamura, Caruana, Morozevich, Grischuk will be participating. Tournament Site