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levon Aronyan

He is best player in the world so far this year , I hope he wins world cup!
Hoping he gets a chance to become world champion, if only for a year or two (don't know what the cycle is now), before the younger guys take over.
Everything's hard now at the world cup. Has to beat MVL and then the winner of So-Ding (to win the cup, of course; he only has to beat MVL to get a candidates spot).

He's had a great 2017, and I like his play, and the world cup is his only real chance at getting to the candidates (could be picked as a wildcard, but that's not in his control).

For me, the ideal scenario is probably an Aronian-So final, so that So gets in through the World Cup instead of average rating (that way Caruana and Kramnik get the rating spots).

Very hard to say, though. Pretty much any of the remaining possibilities are fine by me. I slightly prefer that one, but I'm not married to the idea.

Too many exceptional players at the top right now to fit into an 8 player candidates, so any scenario will leave out someone I'd like to see.
I believe from these two So being the bigger threat to Sauron.
I've really grown to like Aronian's play this year. I have to say he's my favorite player in the top 10.
I'm glad Aronian has qualified for the Candidates; with the quality of his play right now it would have been a shame if he were not included.

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