The 10th and last player to join the line-up of the 8th London Chess Classic is none other than England’s number one, Michael Adams. The Cornishman has been the country’s leading player since 1999 and was once ranked number 4 in the world.
Thus, Magnus Carlsen is officially out of the race for the Grand Chess Tour 2016 top prize. That leaves Hikaru Nakamura alone in contention, who still has a lot of catching up to do with the tour leader, Wesley So.
Final list of participants for the London Chess Classic 2016 follows:
London Chess Classic 2016 List of Participants
No. | Name | Country | Age | Rating | Rank |
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1 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | France | 25 | 2819 | 2 |
2 | Vladimir Kramnik | Russia | 41 | 2808 | 3 |
3 | Fabiano Caruana | United States | 24 | 2807 | 4 |
4 | Levon Aronian | Armenia | 33 | 2792 | 5 |
5 | Hikaru Nakamura | United States | 28 | 2791 | 6 |
6 | Wesley So | United States | 22 | 2771 | 7 |
7 | Viswanathan Anand | India | 46 | 2770 | 8 |
8 | Anish Giri | Netherlands | 22 | 2769 | 9 |
9 | Veselin Topalov | Bulgaria | 41 | 2761 | 12 |
10 | Michael Adams | England | 44 | 2727 | 28 |
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