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Candidates Chess 2016 – Pairings

Candidates Chess 2016 MoscowFIDE and Agon, its commercial partner, are organizing the Candidates Chess Tournament 2016 that will be held in Moscow from March 10 to 30, 2016. Round 1 of the competition is going to take place March 11th and the pairings are already known.

The first round will see an all Russian and all American pairings, namely the matches Sergey Karjakin – Peter Svidler and Hikaru Nakamura – Fabiano Caruana. The other two encounters of the day will be Anish Giri – Levon Aronian and a repetition of the 2010 World Chess Championship Viswanathan Anand – Veselin Topalov.

The pairings have been made today in FIDE office in Athens in the presence of the top chess arbiter Mr. Nikolopoulos and the FIDE Executive Director Mr. Freeman, following the Rules and Regulations for the Candidates Tournament of the FIDE World Championship cycle 2014-2016. Scroll down for the round by round pairings

More about the Candidates 2016

The Candidates Tournament is a chess tournament organized by FIDE since 1950, as a final tournament to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship. The winner of the Candidates earns the right to a match for the World Championship against the reigning World Champion, currently Magnus Carlsen. The match is supposed to be held in the United States.

Tashir Group, a large real estate developer in Russia, is one of the principal sponsors. The company is run by Samvel Karapetyan, an Armenian-born businessman whose net worth is about $4.8 billion according to Forbes magazine. That makes Levon Aronian the nominee of the organizers for Moscow Candidates 2016 Read more about Aronian’s nomination by the organizers here.

Chessdom.com will provide wide coverage of the event with live Grandmaster commentary and computer analysis by the Top Chess Engine Competition with Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini.

Read more about the participants and regulations here

Read about the official poster and logo of the Candidates

Full pairings of Candidates 2016

Round 1 on 2016/03/11 at 14.00
SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo.
1 GM Karjakin Sergey 2769 GM Svidler Peter 2751 8
2 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2787 GM Caruana Fabiano 2787 7
3 GM Giri Anish 2798 GM Aronian Levon 2792 6
4 GM Anand Viswanathan 2784 GM Topalov Veselin 2780 5
Round 2 on 2016/03/12 at 14.00
SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo.
8 GM Svidler Peter 2751 GM Topalov Veselin 2780 5
6 GM Aronian Levon 2792 GM Anand Viswanathan 2784 4
7 GM Caruana Fabiano 2787 GM Giri Anish 2798 3
1 GM Karjakin Sergey 2769 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2787 2
Round 3 on 2016/03/13 at 14.00
SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo.
2 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2787 GM Svidler Peter 2751 8
3 GM Giri Anish 2798 GM Karjakin Sergey 2769 1
4 GM Anand Viswanathan 2784 GM Caruana Fabiano 2787 7
5 GM Topalov Veselin 2780 GM Aronian Levon 2792 6
Round 4 on 2016/03/15 at 14.00
SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo.
8 GM Svidler Peter 2751 GM Aronian Levon 2792 6
7 GM Caruana Fabiano 2787 GM Topalov Veselin 2780 5
1 GM Karjakin Sergey 2769 GM Anand Viswanathan 2784 4
2 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2787 GM Giri Anish 2798 3
Round 5 on 2016/03/16 at 14.00
SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo.
3 GM Giri Anish 2798 GM Svidler Peter 2751 8
4 GM Anand Viswanathan 2784 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2787 2
5 GM Topalov Veselin 2780 GM Karjakin Sergey 2769 1
6 GM Aronian Levon 2792 GM Caruana Fabiano 2787 7
Round 6 on 2016/03/17 at 14.00
SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo.
4 GM Anand Viswanathan 2784 GM Svidler Peter 2751 8
5 GM Topalov Veselin 2780 GM Giri Anish 2798 3
6 GM Aronian Levon 2792 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2787 2
7 GM Caruana Fabiano 2787 GM Karjakin Sergey 2769 1
Round 7 on 2016/03/19 at 14.00
SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo.
8 GM Svidler Peter 2751 GM Caruana Fabiano 2787 7
1 GM Karjakin Sergey 2769 GM Aronian Levon 2792 6
2 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2787 GM Topalov Veselin 2780 5
3 GM Giri Anish 2798 GM Anand Viswanathan 2784 4
Round 8 on 2016/03/20 at 14.00
SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo.
8 GM Svidler Peter 2751 GM Karjakin Sergey 2769 1
7 GM Caruana Fabiano 2787 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2787 2
6 GM Aronian Levon 2792 GM Giri Anish 2798 3
5 GM Topalov Veselin 2780 GM Anand Viswanathan 2784 4
Round 9 on 2016/03/21 at 14.00
SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo.
5 GM Topalov Veselin 2780 GM Svidler Peter 2751 8
4 GM Anand Viswanathan 2784 GM Aronian Levon 2792 6
3 GM Giri Anish 2798 GM Caruana Fabiano 2787 7
2 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2787 GM Karjakin Sergey 2769 1
Round 10 on 2016/03/23 at 14.00
SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo.
8 GM Svidler Peter 2751 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2787 2
1 GM Karjakin Sergey 2769 GM Giri Anish 2798 3
7 GM Caruana Fabiano 2787 GM Anand Viswanathan 2784 4
6 GM Aronian Levon 2792 GM Topalov Veselin 2780 5
Round 11 on 2016/03/24 at 14.00
SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo.
6 GM Aronian Levon 2792 GM Svidler Peter 2751 8
5 GM Topalov Veselin 2780 GM Caruana Fabiano 2787 7
4 GM Anand Viswanathan 2784 GM Karjakin Sergey 2769 1
3 GM Giri Anish 2798 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2787 2
Round 12 on 2016/03/25 at 14.00
SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo.
8 GM Svidler Peter 2751 GM Giri Anish 2798 3
2 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2787 GM Anand Viswanathan 2784 4
1 GM Karjakin Sergey 2769 GM Topalov Veselin 2780 5
7 GM Caruana Fabiano 2787 GM Aronian Levon 2792 6
Round 13 on 2016/03/27 at 14.00
SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo.
7 GM Caruana Fabiano 2787 GM Svidler Peter 2751 8
6 GM Aronian Levon 2792 GM Karjakin Sergey 2769 1
5 GM Topalov Veselin 2780 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2787 2
4 GM Anand Viswanathan 2784 GM Giri Anish 2798 3
Round 14 on 2016/03/28 at 14.00
SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo.
8 GM Svidler Peter 2751 GM Anand Viswanathan 2784 4
3 GM Giri Anish 2798 GM Topalov Veselin 2780 5
2 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2787 GM Aronian Levon 2792 6
1 GM Karjakin Sergey 2769 GM Caruana Fabiano 2787 7

 
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