Some of the participants of Wijk aan Zee A group
(Photo taken from chess-news.ru)
As usual, the group consists of the best of the best:
GM Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2862
GM Caruana, Fabiano ITA 2820
GM Aronian, Levon ARM 2797
GM Giri, Anish NED 2784
GM So, Wesley USA 2762
GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2757
GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw POL 2744
GM Radjabov, Teimour AZE 2734
GM Ding, Liren CHN 2732
GM Jobava, Baadur GEO 2727
GM Ivanchuk, Vasil UKR 2715
GM Hou, Yifan CHN 2673
GM Van Wely, Loek NED 2667
GM Saric, Ivan CRO 2666
Pairings of the 1st round
Radjabov, T. – Van Wely, L.
Ivanchuk, V. – Jobava, B.
Vachier-Lagrave, M. – Hou, Y.
Ding, L. – Caruana, F.
Saric, I. – Aronian, L.
Giri, A. – Carlsen, M.
So, W. – Wojtaszek, R.
