Levon Aronian to face world champion
Armenian strongest chess player Levon Aronian will take part in an annual chess tournament due in Dutch city of Wijk aan Zee. As its official website informs this year 14 GMs from 9 countries will fight for a main prize. They are: Name Rating World ranking Country Magnus Carlsen 2853 1 Norway Levon Aronian 2795 5 Armenia Wesley So 2794 6 USA Sergey Karjakin 2772 9 Russia Pentala Harikrishna 2762 12 India Anish Giri 2756 14 The Netherlands Ian Nepomniachtchi 2749 16 Russia Radoslaw Wojtaszek 2746 17 Poland Richard Rapport 2729 26 Hungary Wei Yi 2706 39 China Adhiban Baskaran 2689 51 India Loek van Wely 2667 80 The Netherlands To remind, Magnus Carlsen is current world champion, and Sergey Karjakin is his rival in the upcoming champions’ fight, which will be held in November in New York. Wijk aan Zee tournament will kick off on January 14, 2017 and will end on January 29. The games will take place not only in Wijk aan Zee, but also Rotterdam and Haarlem.
