Tigran Petrosyan to play against Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen, Alexander Grischuk, Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana, Pentala Harikrishna, Levon Aronyan will play a GM Blitz Battle held by Chess.com, reports chessfed.am.
According to Chess.com, reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen will face a grandmaster named for a former world champion in the next GM Blitz Battle on June 23.
GM Tigran L. Petrosian of Armenia bested a field of 99 players Tuesday in what can be considered the strongest online blitz tournament ever for the right to face Carlsen next month.