Group A
The players in group A (country, Elo rating and world ranking as of January 2008 in brackets) were Viswanathan Anand (India, 2799, 1=), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2799, 1=), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, 2780, 3), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan, 2760, 6), Peter Leko (Hungary, 2753, 8), Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine, 2751, 9), Levon Aronian (Armenia, 2739, 10), Boris Gelfand (Israel, 2737, 11), Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan, 2735, 12), Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2733, 13), Michael Adams (England, 2726, 16), Judit Polgár (Hungary, 2707, 22), Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine, 2692, 27) and Loek van Wely (Netherlands, 2681, 35). The average rating of 2742 made it a Category 20 tournament.
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