Norway Chess Classic kicks off on May 27 in Stavanger.
The competition scheduled to run until June 8 features as strong a competition as usual. Current title holder, Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian will be playing too.
His competitors this year are Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Fabiano Caruana (USA), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France), Viswanathan Anand (India), Sergey Karjakin (Russia), Wesley So (USA), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan), Hikaru Nakamura (USA), and Ding Liren (China).
If players earn equal amount of points, the winner will be decided by a tie-break.
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