Rajabov to play at Corus chess tourney

World's top-rated Veselin Topalov, World Champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, World number two Viswanathan Anand of India, Levon Aronian of Armenia, former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine and Peter Svidler of Russia are among eight out of the top 15 players included in the field to make it a tough contest as usual.

The average rating of the participants is 2719 in the 13-round tournament to be contested by 14 participants.

The match between Kramnik and Topalov will be the one to watch out for as they will be meeting for the first time after their world championships duel, when the Bulgarian accused the Russian of cheating. PTI

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