World Chess Championship 2014
The World Chess Championship 2014 will be a match between the winner of the World Chess Championship 2013 (Viswanathan Anand or Magnus Carlsen) and a challenger, to determine the 2014 World Chess Champion. It will be held from 5 November to 25 November 2014, under the auspices of the World Chess Federation (FIDE).[1]
Candidates Tournament
The challenger will be determined in the 2014 Candidates Tournament from 12 March until 30 March 2014.[1] The participants, in order of rules announced by FIDE, will be:[2]
| Place | Qualifier |
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| Loser of the World Chess Championship 2013 match |  Magnus Carlsen or  Viswanathan Anand
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| The top two finishers in the Chess World Cup 2013 |  Evgeny Tomashevsky or Dmitry Andreikin
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 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave or Vladimir Kramnik[3]
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| The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Prix 2012–2013 |  Veselin Topalov[4]
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 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alexander Grischuk or  Fabiano Caruana
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| The next two highest rated players who played in the Chess World Cup 2013 or the FIDE Grand Prix 2012–2013 (average FIDE rating on the 12 monthly lists from August 2012 to July 2013)[5] |
 Levon Aronian
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| Vladimir Kramnik or Sergey Karjakin[3]
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| Organizing committee's wild card (FIDE rating in July 2013 at least 2725) | TBA |
References
- ^ a b FIDE Calendar 2014
- ^ FIDE: Rules & regulations for the Candidates Tournament of the FIDE World Championship cycle 2012–2014
- ^ a b If Kramnik qualifies through reaching the final in the Chess World Cup 2013, then the next highest rated player from August 2012 through July 2013, Karjakin, will qualify via this rating criteria.
- ^ Mamedyarov first in Beijing, Topalov wins Grand Prix overall
- ^ Players needed to have played at least 30 rated games in that time period, which all players under consideration have achieved.
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