Chess World Cup 2007 - Qualification

Qualification

The final list of 128 qualifiers for the World Cup was as follows:

• Three of the eight participants of the World Chess Championship 2007 (Levon Aronian, Peter Svidler, Alexander Grischuk). The other five qualifiers in this category were replaced by five players from the average rating list.
• Women's World Champion 2006 (Xu Yuhua).
• Junior World Champion 2006 (Zaven Andriasian).
• Twenty-five players with the highest Elo rating (including five replacements). The average ratings from July 2006 and January 2007 were used.
• 89 players qualified from the continental and zonal championships:
  • 45 players from Europe (16 from the 2006 European Individual Chess Championship and 29 from 2007)
  • 19 players from the Americas (7 from the 4th American Continental Championship, 12 from the 2.1 through 2½ Zonals),
  • 19 players from Asia and Oceania (10 from the 6th Asian Championship, 9 from the 3.1 through 3.6 Zonals),
  • 6 players from Africa (2007 African Championship).
• 5 nominees of the FIDE President (Sergei Rublevsky, Evgeny Bareev, Sergei Zhigalko, Ziaur Rahman, and Boris Savchenko).
• 4 nominees of the local Organising Committee (Evgeny Alekseev, Nikolai Kabanov, Aleksei Pridorozhni, and Vladimir Genba).

The individual Zones (for Zonals) are described in the FIDE handbook.