Participants of grandmaster group A
| Name | Country | Rating | Position |
|---|
| GM | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2835 | 1 | Photo |
| GM | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2805 | 2 | Photo |
| GM | Radjabov, Teymour | AZE | 2773 | 5 | Photo |
| GM | Topalov, Veselin | BUL | 2770 | 6 | Photo |
| GM | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 2769 | 7 | Photo |
| GM | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2766 | 8 | Photo |
| GM | Gashimov, Vugar | AZE | 2761 | 10 | Photo |
| GM | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2759 | 12 | Photo |
| GM | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2739 | 16 | Photo |
| GM | Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2736 | 17 | Photo |
| GM | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2732 | 20 | Photo |
| GM | Giri, Anish | NED | 2714 | 28 | Photo |
| GM | Navara, David | CZE | 2712 | 30 | Photo |
| GM | Van Wely, Loek | NED | 2692 | 54 | Photo |
| Average rating | : 2755 |
| Category | : 21 |
FIDE-ratings of January 2012
