According to Offsideplus.az, our grandmaster is among the 16 chess players who will take part in the tournament.

The prize fund of the tournament, which will take place as part of the Champions Chess Tour, is $ 100,000. In the competition to be held on February 6-14, our representative will have another duel with Armenian Levon Aronian, whom he has defeated several times recently. Also in the race will be Magnus Carlsen, Dean Liren, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Jan Nepomnyashi, Maxim Vashie-Lagrave, Alexander Grishuk, Anish Giri, Lenye Dominguez, Jan Krzysztof Duda, Vidit Gudjrati, Sam Schenkland and Danas Dublyov.

It should be noted that eight of the chess players who will compete in the round-robin system will determine the winner by the knockout system. The first-place winner will receive $ 30,000 (APA).