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At Candidates Tournament 2014, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia (March 13 to March 31, 2014)

Candidate	Country	Rating	Rank	Qualification
1. Viswanathan Anand	India	2773	9	Previous World Champion
2. Vladimir Kramnik	Russia	2787	4	World Cup 2013 winner
3. Dmitry Andreikin	Russia	2709	41	World Cup 2013 finalist
4. Veselin Topalov	Bulgaria	2785	5	Grand Prix 2012-13 winner
5. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	Azerbaijan	2757	12	Grand Prix 2012-13 runner-up
6. Levon Aronian	Armenia	2812	2	Rating list 2012-13
7. Sergey Karjakin	Russia	2759	10	Rating list 2012-13
8. Peter Svidler	Russia	2758	11	host nominee

The deadline for player's participation in the Candidates Tournament is 20 January 2014 ... Many people were saying Anand seemed reluctant to commit to participating in the next cycle but when FIDE published the official list of participants with Anand's name in it ... So Anand is committed to particvipate in it ... But very tough tournament for all participants.


Format

• The 8 players will play a double round robin tournament (14 rounds).
• The time control for each game - 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus an additional 30 seconds per move starting from move 61. Tiebreaks
• If the top two or more players score the same points, the tie will be decided by the following criteria - 

a) The results of the games between the players involved in the tie. If they are still tied ...
b) The total number of wins in the tournament of every player involved in the tie. If they are still tied ...
c) Sonneborn-Berger System.