GM\Pavel Eljanov Convincingly Won The Sixth FIDE Grand Prix With A 2809 Performance !

Pavel Eljanov was born May 10th, 1983 in Kharkiv, USSR (now Ukraine) and was awarded the Grandmaster title in 2000. In 1999, Eljanov was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team, which won the U-16 Chess Olympiad in Artek, Ukraine ...(http://www.chessgames.com/player/pavel_eljanov.html)
GM\Pavel Eljanov won convincingly the 6th Fide Grand Prix which took place from May 10th to 25th in the new State Drama Theatre of the city of Astrakhan ;Russia.
Now 7 players qualified for the candidates matches in Azerbaijan :(1)GM\Levon Aronian Winner of the FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2010,(2)GM\Teimour RadjabovRunner-up of the FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2010 (3)GM\Boris Gelfand Winner of the Chess World Cup 2009 (4)GM\Vaselin Topalov Loser of the World Chess Championship 2010 match (5)GM\Gata Kamsky Loser of the 2009 Challenger Match (6) and (7)GM\Magnus Carlsen and GM\Vladimir Kramnik The next two highest rated players in the world (average of July 2009 and January 2010 ratings) (8)To be announced soon ( Tournament organisers' nominee must have Elo rating over 2700)
Source of the photo:http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/eljanov-wins-final-fide-gp-radjabov-qualifies-for-candidates/