Round 7 will be played Saturday at the Candidates Tournament for the 2016 World Chess Championship, which is held in the Russian capital city of
In this round, Grandmaster (GM) Levon Aronian, who plays first board for the three-time World Chess Olympiad champions and the former World Team Chess champions
All matches will get underway at 3pm,
In the previous rounds, Aronian played draws with GM Anish Giri (Netherlands), former World Champion, GM Viswanathan Anand (India), GM Peter Svidler (Russia) and Italian GM Fabiano Caruana (USA), and defeated GM Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) and GM Hikaru Nakamura (USA).
After 6 rounds, Levon Aronian and Sergey Karjakin are the leaders with 4 points, apiece.
The winner of the Candidates Tournament, which has about a €420-thousand prize fund, will be the challenger for the 2016 World Chess Championship against the reining champion, GM Magnus Carlsen (
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