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The Candidates Tournament is one of the biggest tournaments of the year with the winner getting the nod to play in the World Championship in November against Magnus Carlsen. This tournament features 8 of the best players in the world that have qualified over the past 2 years. It is a 14 round tournament with each player facing off against each opponent twice. The competitors and how they qualified are below:
| Qualification path | Player | Age | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loser of the World Chess Championship 2014 match | Viswanathan Anand | 46 | 2762 |
| The top two finishers in the Chess World Cup 2015 | Sergey Karjakin | 26 | 2760 |
| Peter Svidler | 39 | 2757 | |
| The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 | Fabiano Caruana | 23 | 2794 |
| Hikaru Nakamura | 28 | 2790 | |
| The top two players with highest average 2015 rating who played in World Cup or Grand Prix | Veselin Topalov | 41 | 2780 |
| Anish Giri | 21 | 2793 | |
| Wild card nomination of Organizers (Agon), with FIDE rating in July 2015 at least 2725 | Levon Aronian | 33 | 2786 |
