The Norway Chess 2016, sponsored by Altibox, is scheduled to take place in Stavanger from April 18-30. It is going to be a ten player single round robin event.
Six of the names have been released in January: the World ChampionMagnus Carlsen (Norway), the ex world champions Vladimir Kramnik(Russia) and Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Levon Aronian (Armenia), Anish Giri (Netherlands), and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France).
Today the Altibox announced a new website design on its facebook page and the header image reveals three more players: World Cup winner Sergey Karjakin, Pentala Harikrishna and Pavel Eljanov.
Like in the previous editions, the Norwegian Chess Federation will hold a qualifier event to appoint the 10th player in the super-tournament.
The qualifier will take place from 23-26th March during Easter Chess Festival in Fagernes.
Participants:
Jon Ludvig Hammer, Norway 2705
Hou Yifan, China 2673
Nils Grandelius, Sweden 2637
Aryan Tari, Norway 2537
Last year Norway Chess was part of the Grand Chess Tour. This year the organizers from Norway have parted ways with the tour.