14/09/2014

FIDE Grand Prix Participants Announced

http://schach.chess.com/news/participants-fide-grand-prix-announced-4455

 

FIDE Grand Prix Participants Announced

The new and clear world #2 in the live ratings, Fabiano Caruana, is the highest-rated player to participate in the 2014-2015 FIDE Grand Prix Series.
The other top 10 players who said yes to FIDE's invitation are Alexander Grischuk, Hikaru Nakamura, Sergey Karjakin and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. The four GP tournaments will be held in Baku, Tashkent, Tehran and Khanty-Mansiysk.
Last Tuesday, the full participants list of the 2014-2015 FIDE Grand Prix Series was published on the FIDE website. The following table is taken from that article; it includes the three tournaments each player will play.