FIDE announces that the deadline for player's participation in the Candidates Tournament is 11 January 2016. The event will be held in Moscow, Russia from 10 March (arrivals/opening ceremony) to 30 March 2016 (departures) and the qualifiers are:

1. Vishy Anand (IND, world championship 2014 finalist)
2. Sergey Karjakin (RUS, world cup 2015 winner)
3. Peter Svidler (RUS, world cup 2015 finalist)
4. Fabiano Caruana (USA, grand-prix 2014-15 winner)
5. Hikaru Nakamura (USA, grand-prix 2014-15 runner-up)
6. Veselin Topalov (BUL, rating lists 2015)
7. Anish Giri (NED, rating lists 2015)
8. Levon Aronian (ARM, organiser's nominee)

First reserve from the FIDE Grand-Prix standings is Dmitry Jakovenko (RUS).

The winner of the Candidates Tournament will challenge Magnus Carlsen for the world championship title in the last quarter of 2016.

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