Here are the players:
1. Magnus Carlsen
2. Viswanathan Anand
3. Levon Aronian
4. Vladimir Kramnik
5. Boris Gelfand
6. Peter Svidler
7. Peter Leko
8. Alexander Morozevich
9. Vassily Ivanchuk (2007 World Blitz Champion)
10. Ruslan Ponomariov
Qualifiers from the Aeroflot Blitz
11. Vugar Gashimov
12. Sergey Karjakin
13. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
14. Vladislav Tkachiev
15. Evgeny Bareev
16. Arkadij Naiditsch (replacing Zhou Jianchao based on the information by chessdom.com)
Special Invitation
17. Dmitry Jakovenko
18. Leinier Dominguez Perez (Reigning World Blitz Champion)
19. Alexander Grischuk (2006 World Blitz Champion)
20. Judit Polgar
21. Anatoly Karpov
22. Alexandra Kosteniuk
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Super assemblage.
I can’t imagine Chuky as a former champion of a blitz tournament
🙂
– dv
Conspicuous by his absence is Radjabov.
Go Chucky!
What’s Kosteniuk doing there? She’s definitely not in the class of those super GMs.
Good Luck! ^_^
where is Nakamura?
I hope Judith blitzes to the title!
no naka?
Tkachiev has good chances to win , he just needs a few glasses of good vodka before the games and he might prevail , he’s really an amazing blitz player , in top form i don’t see more than 2-3 players in the world capable of beating him .
Forget about the hierarchy in classical chess , blitz is like a martial art , it’s all about finding the strongest moves in 2 seconds , all about intuition , energy and nerve management .
Go Judit and Leko
Nakamura has a big mouth and no chops..sorry but he’s second rate.