The participants are, by rating:
1. World chess champion, Magnus Carlsen (Norway) 2. Wesley So (USA) 3. Fabiano Caruana (USA) 4. Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) 5. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) 6. Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 7. Viswanathan Anand (India) 8. Levon Aronian (Armenia) 9.…