Top 30 seeds
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| No. | Name | FideID | FED | RtgI | RtgN | sex | Gr | Club/City | ||
| 1 | GM | Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo | 3901211 | VEN | 2662 | 2651 | DJK Aufwärts St. Josef Aachen | |||
| 2 | GM | Fridman Daniel | 11600454 | GER | 2640 | 2617 | SV Mülheim-Nord 1931 | |||
| 3 | GM | Gustafsson Jan | 4625498 | GER | 2640 | 2635 | OSG Baden-Baden | |||
| 4 | GM | Romanov Evgeny | 4148843 | RUS | 2626 | 2607 | Erfurter SK | |||
| 5 | GM | Adly Ahmed | 10601619 | EGY | 2619 | 0 | Kairo | |||
| 6 | GM | Jumabayev Rinat | 13702661 | KAZ | 2610 | 0 | Astana | |||
| 7 | GM | Baklan Vladimir | 14102196 | UKR | 2601 | 2620 | SC Emmendingen 1937 | |||
| 8 | GM | Gopal G.N. | 5015693 | IND | 2589 | 0 | Kochi | |||
| 9 | GM | Nikolov Momchil | 2905710 | BUL | 2585 | 0 | Dobrich | |||
| 10 | GM | Fier Alexandr | 2107139 | BRA | 2579 | 0 | Tbilisi | |||
| 11 | GM | Kulaots Kaido | 4500261 | EST | 2577 | 2573 | BCA Augsburg | |||
| 12 | GM | Huschenbeth Niclas | 24604747 | GER | 2575 | 2574 | Hamburger SK von 1830 | |||
| 13 | GM | Postny Evgeny | 2804344 | ISR | 2570 | 2530 | SK Schwäbisch Hall | |||
| 14 | GM | Sandipan Chanda | 5004225 | IND | 2568 | 0 | Kolkata | |||
| 15 | GM | Kveinys Aloyzas | 12800040 | LTU | 2548 | 2546 | SV Lingen | |||
| 16 | FM | Esipenko Andrey | 24175439 | RUS | 2540 | 0 | Himki | |||
| 17 | GM | Xu Yinglun | 8604940 | CHN | 2528 | 0 | Beijing | |||
| 18 | IM | Shevchenko Kirill | 14129574 | UKR | 2527 | 2576 | SC Emmendingen 1937 | |||
| 19 | GM | Andersson Ulf | 1700014 | SWE | 2523 | 2467 | Düsseldorfer SK 14/25 | |||
| 20 | IM | Lubbe Nikolas | 4694031 | GER | 2515 | 2511 | SF Neuberg | |||
| 21 | IM | Dann Matthias | 24638056 | GER | 2496 | 2508 | TSV Schott Mainz | |||
| 22 | IM | Vogel Roven | 12908088 | GER | 2493 | 2503 | USV TU Dresden | |||
| 23 | IM | Mons Leon | 4614950 | GER | 2483 | 2499 | MSA Zugzwang 82 | |||
| 24 | GM | Hoffmann Michael | 4601297 | GER | 2462 | 2438 | DJK Aufwärts St. Josef Aachen | |||
| 25 | IM | Li Di | 8607508 | CHN | 2462 | 0 | Chengdu | |||
| 26 | IM | Baldauf Marco | 4688210 | GER | 2460 | 2509 | Sfr. Berlin 1903 | |||
| 27 | IM | Hirneise Tobias | 24600881 | GER | 2459 | 2454 | TSV Schönaich | |||
| 28 | IM | Zanan Evgeny | 24101940 | ISR | 2448 | 0 | Rishon le Zion | |||
| 29 | IM | Xu Yi | 8605564 | CHN | 2438 | 0 | Shanghai | |||
| 30 | GM | Womacka Mathias | 4611390 | GER | 2436 | 2412 | SK Schwäbisch Hall |