Grand Prix Participants Announced

Today, FIDE has published the list of confirmed participants for the first Grand Prix series. Kramnik, Anand, Topalov and Morozevich are not playing, but still the average rating is above 2700.

 Svidler Peter RUS 2763 
 Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE 2760 
 Leko Peter HUN 2753 
 Ivanchuk Vassily UKR 2751 
 Aronian Levon ARM 2739 
 Gelfand Boris ISR 2737 
 Radjabov Teimour AZE 2735 
 Carlsen Magnus NOR 2733 
 Karjakin Sergey UKR 2732 
 Adams Michael ENG 2726 
 Kamsky Gata USA 2726 
 Jakovenko Dmitry RUS 2720 
 Cheparinov Ivan BUL 2713 
 Grischuk Alexander RUS 2711 
 Bacrot Etienne FRA 2700 
 Wang Yue CHN 2698 
 Inarkiev Ernesto RUS 2681 
 Navara David CZE 2680 
 Gashimov Vugar AZE 2665 
 Pelletier Yannick SWZ 2600 
 Al Modiahki Mohamad QTR 2569 

Average rating: 2709