| Name | Country | Rating |
| Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2723 |
| Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2779 |
| Domínguez Pérez, Leinier | CUB | 2757 |
| Fressinet, Laurent | FRA | 2708 |
| Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2764 |
| Giri, Anish | NED | 2737 |
| Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2785 |
| Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2731 |
| Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2772 |
| Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2756 |
| Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | 2703 |
| Wang, Hao | CHN | 2736 |
