Action Continues with the London Chess Classic 2016

The Grand Chess Tour of 2016 continues with the London Chess Classic. It can be recalled that so far in the tour, Wesley So with 30 points leads by a big margin, and the only player who could possibly catch up with him is Hikaru Nakamura. As such, they were pitted against each other in the very first round.

London Chess Classic 2016 List of Participants

No.	Name	Country	Rating	World Rank
1	Fabiano Caruana	United States	2823	2
2	Vladimir Kramnik	Russia	2809	3
3	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	France	2804	4
4	Wesley So	United States	2794	5
5	Levon Aronian	Armenia	2785	7
6	Viswanathan Anand	India	2779	8-9
7	Hikaru Nakamura	United States	2779	8-9
8	Anish Giri	Netherlands	2771	10
9	Veselin Topalov	Bulgaria	2760	15
10	Michael Adams	England	2748	19

Updated ratings and rankings as of December 2016 FIDE Ratings list.