Race to FIDE candidates 2018


1		Candidates 2018	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_2018
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3	Runner-up 2016	Sergey Karjakin	The runner-up of the 2016 World Championship match.
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5	World Cup 2017 #1	Levon Aronian	Two qualifiers from the Chess World Cup.
6	World Cup 2017 #2	Ding Liren	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_World_Cup_2017
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8	Grand Prix 2017 #1	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	Two qualifiers from the FIDE Grand Prix 2017. The top two qualifiers not already qualified according to the criteria above will qualify.
9	Grand Prix 2017 #2	Alexander Grischuk	See Sheet 2.
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11	Rating #1	Fabiano Caruana	Two qualifiers by rating. The top two players by rating not already qualified according to the criteria above will qualify as long as they play in either the World Cup or the FIDE Grand Prix.
12	Rating #2	Wesley So	See Sheet 3. Nobody can catch these two players anymore.
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15	Organizer's Nominee	Vladimir Kramnik	An Organizer's Nominee. The player must be rated at least 2725 in any 2017 rating list.
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18	Final update 25th November, last round of Palma Grand Prix, Mamedyarov and Grischuk are the final qualifiers for the candidates tournament.
19	Detailed regulations:	https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/regscandidates2018.pdf
20	Announcement of venue and dates: http://www.agonlimited.com/news/2017/9/10/the-fide-world-chess-candidates-tournament-will-take-place-in-berlin-germany-on-march-10-28-2018
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22	Information compiled by Martin Bennedik. See the links for sources.
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26	DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL FIDE SPREADSHEET. THERE MIGHT BE MISTAKES. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.


1		Sharjah, UAE	Moscow, RUS	Geneva, SUI	Palma, ESP
2	Player	17-28 Feb 2017	12-21 May 2017	5-16 July 2017	16-25 Nov 2017	Total
3	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	140	140	60		340
4	Alexander Grischuk	140	71	125		336
5	Teimour Radjabov		71	170	71	312
6	Ding Liren (*)	70	170		71	311
7	Dmitry Jakovenko	70		11	155	236
8	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	140	71		20	231
9	Hikaru Nakamura	70	71		71	212
10	Peter Svidler		71	60	71	202
11	Ian Nepomniachtschi	70	3	125		198
12	Levon Aronian (*)	7		11	155	173
13	Pentala Harikrishna		20	60	71	151
14	Anish Giri		71	60	6	137
15	Michael Adams	70	3	60		133
16	Richard Rapport	25		2	71	98
17	Evgeny Tomashevsky	3	20		71	94
18	Li Chao	25		60	6	91
19	Hou Yifan	7	71	2		80
20	Alexander Riazantsev	1		60	3	64
21	Pavel Eljanov	25		11	20	56
22	Francisco Vallejo Pons	25	7		6	38
23	Boris Gelfand		20	11	1	32
24	Ernesto Inarkiev		1	4	20	25
25	Jon Ludvig Hammer	3	7		1	11
26	Salem Saleh	3	3	1		7
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28	Players who were originally invited but declined their participation: Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Sergey Karjakin, Fabiano Caruana, Veselin Topalov, Vladimir Kramnik, Wesley So
29	(*) Ding Liren and Levon Aronian are already qualified via the world cup.
30	http://www.agonlimited.com/news/2017/2/6/kaspersky-lab-becomes-official-cybersecurity-partner-of-fide-and-world-chess


1	Player	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	Average	TB1: 2 decimals	TB2: rated games
2	Carlsen, Magnus (*)	2840	2838	2838	2838	2832	2832	2822	2822	2827	2826	2837	2837	2832
3	Caruana, Fabiano	2827	2827	2817	2817	2802	2808	2807	2807	2799	2794	2799	2799	2808	2808.58	65
4	So, Wesley	2808	2822	2822	2822	2815	2812	2810	2810	2792	2788	2788	2788	2806	2806.41	72
5	Kramnik, Vladimir	2811	2811	2811	2811	2811	2808	2812	2803	2803	2794	2787	2787	2804	2804.08	44
6	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	2796	2796	2803	2803	2795	2796	2791	2789	2804	2794	2796	2796	2796
7	Aronian, Levon (*)	2780	2785	2774	2774	2789	2793	2809	2799	2802	2801	2801	2802	2792
8	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	2766	2766	2772	2772	2772	2800	2800	2797	2797	2791	2799	2795	2785
9	Anand, Viswanathan	2786	2786	2786	2786	2786	2786	2783	2783	2794	2783	2782	2782	2785
10	Nakamura, Hikaru	2785	2785	2793	2793	2786	2785	2792	2792	2781	2774	2780	2780	2785
11	Karjakin, Sergey (*)	2785	2783	2783	2783	2783	2781	2773	2773	2780	2765	2760	2760	2775
12	Giri, Anish	2773	2769	2769	2771	2785	2771	2775	2772	2777	2762	2762	2762	2770
13	Ding Liren (*)	2760	2760	2759	2759	2773	2783	2781	2777	2771	2772	2774	2774	2770
14	Grischuk, Alexander	2742	2742	2750	2750	2750	2761	2761	2783	2788	2785	2782	2779	2764
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30	Thanks to 2700chess.com for providing the live ratings throughout the year.
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32	See http://ratings.fide.com/download.phtml for FIDE ratings archive.
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34	(*) Carlsen as the defending Champion is already qualified for the world championship final match.
35	Karjakin as the runner-up is already qualified for the candidates.
36	Levon Aronian and Ding Liren are already qualified via the world cup.


1	Fabiano Caruana	January
2	Vladimir Kramnik	January	http://www.agonlimited.com/news/2017/10/29/vladimir-kramnik-nominated-as-wild-card-choice-to-the-fide-world-chess-candidates-tournament
3	Wesley So	January
4	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	January
5	Viswanathan Anand	January
6	Hikaru Nakamura	January
7	Levon Aronian (*)	January
8	Anish Giri	January
9	Ian Nepomniachtchi	January
10	Pentala Harikrishna	January
11	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	January
12	Ding Liren (*)	January
13	Pavel Eljanov	January
14	Vassily Ivanchuk	January
15	Michael Adams	January
16	Radoslaw Wojtaszek	January
17	Peter Svidler	January
18	Alexander Gischuk	January
19	Veselin Topalov	January
20	Leinier Dominguez	January
21	Yu Yangyi	January
22	Dmitry Andreikin	January
23	David Navara	January
24	Wei Yi	February
25	Nikita Vitiugov	April
26	Ernesto Inarkiev	April
27	Le Quang Liem	April
28	Boris Gelfand	June
29	Li Chao	July
30	Maxim Matlakov	July
31	Vladimir Fedoseev	July
32	Teimour Radjabov	August
33	Etienne Bacrot	September
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35	Any player rated 2725 or higher on any 2017 rating list, who is not yet qualified for the candidates.
36	They are the possible players for the organizer's nominee.
37	(*) Levon Aronian and Ding Liren are already qualified via the world cup.