Levon Aronian to participate in World Chess Championship 2011
June 3, 2010 – 15:38 AMT 10:38 GMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – 2 countries will host World Chess Championship 2011, with 4 chess players to rival in Baku. The remaining 4, including Levon Aronian will compete in the country to be announced later.
World Chess Championship 2011 will be held in knockout format. 7 chess championship participants were announced: Levon Aronian (Armenia), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Gata Kamsky (USA) Boris Gelfand (Israel) and Timur Rajabov (Azerbaijan).
Source: http://www.panarmenian.net
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Who’s the 8th player?
maybe Mamedyarov
who cares?
I had to read the article twice. A knockout tournament?! And besides this…what happened to the Candidates matches?! Anand just retained the WC. Isn’t it supposed to be finding out the candidate to face Anand the way to go? To me none of this makes any sense. Topalov beat Kamsky to become the candidate to face Anand for the WC. Why are they duming this format for?!
How many chances will topalov get? He hasn’t had to qualify for anything and keeps getting seeded. No doubt fid
e is intimidated by his promoters BC really. He should be done now and have to start from bottom like other gms.
Daniel, Topalov’s FIDE rating is second in FIDE ratinglist. Who must participate if not the strongest players? By the way Kramnik also is here by rating although his rating is fourth.