Participants of grandmaster group A
| Name | Country | Rating | Position |
|---|
| GM | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2861 | 1 | Photo |
| GM | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2802 | 3 | Photo |
| GM | Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2781 | 5 | Photo |
| GM | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 2780 | 6 | Photo |
| GM | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | 2772 | 7 | Photo |
| GM | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2769 | 9 | Photo |
| GM | Wang, Hao | CHN | 2752 | 14 | Photo |
| GM | Leko, Peter | HUN | 2735 | 19 | Photo |
| GM | Giri, Anish | NED | 2726 | 29 | Photo |
| GM | Harikrishna, Pentala | IND | 2698 | 49 | Photo |
| GM | van Wely, Loek | NED | 2679 | 68 | Photo |
| GM | Sokolov, Ivan | NED | 2667 | 82 | Photo |
| GM | L'Ami, Erwin | NED | 2627 | 145 | Photo |
| GM | Hou, Yifan | CHN | 2603 | 215 | Photo |
| Average rating | : 2732 |
| Category | : 20 |
FIDE-ratings of January 2013
