Turniiril osalevad tugevamatest Alexei Shirov (2715 ESP), Alexey Dreev (2704 RUS), Lev Aronian (2684 ARM), Emil Sutovsky (2669 ISR), Krishnan Sasikiran (2657 IND), Kiril Georgiev (2654 MKD), Boris Avrukh (2629 ISR), Pavel Tregubov (2629 RUS), Hikaru Nakamura (2613 USA), Gabriel Sargissian (2602 ARM) jt.