Teymur Rajabov gets chance to vie for world chess crown

FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov said that the tournament of contenders of the next round will be held in London on Oct. 23- Nov. 13.  Sport-Express reported that the event organizer is Agon, a company established by US businessmen Andrew Paulson anew, to which FIDE conveys all the rights to hold the next world championship cycles among men.

Teymur Rajabov, occupying the 5th place in the January FIDE ranking list, is to be nominated by Agon to the tournament.  So , a full list of nominees for 2013-2014 cycle is as follows: Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Levon Aronian (Armenia), Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Svidler and Alexander Grischuk (all  from  Russia), Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Teymur Rajabov (Azerbaijan ) and the loser in the world championship match Viswanathan Anand (India) - Boris Gelfand (Israel), which will be held in May 2012.


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