Levon Aronian to participate in Stavanger 2017

Armenian GM Levon Aronian will participate in Norway Chess 2017, which is going to take place in Stavanger on June 5-17. World Champion Magnus Carlsen Magnus Carlsen is already guaranteed as a participant.

Aside from Carlsen and Aronian, the ex-world champion Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Segey Karjakin (Russia), Wesley So (USA), Fabiano Caruana (USA), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France), Anish Giri (The Nederlands) and Hikaru Nakamura (USA) are set to participate in the chess tournament.