Participants of Tata Steel Masters
Name – Country – Rating – Position
GM Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2862 1
GM Caruana, Fabiano ITA 2829 2
GM Aronian, Levon ARM 2797 5
GM Giri, Anish NED 2768 10
GM So, Wesley USA 2762 12
GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2758 13
GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw POL 2744 15
GM Radjabov, Teimour AZE 2734 20
GM Jobava, Baadur GEO 2733 21
GM Ding, Liren CHN 2732 23
GM Ivanchuk, Vasil UKR 2715 34
GM Saric, Ivan CRO 2679 62
GM Hou, Yifan CHN 2673 71
GM Van Wely, Loek NED 2667 82
Average rating : 2747
Category : 20
FIDE-ratings of December 2014
Participants of Tata Steel Challengers
GM Navara, David CZE 2727
GM Wei, Yi CHN 2668
GM Shankland, Sam USA 2642
GM l’ Ami, Erwin NED 2613
GM Potkin, Vladimir RUS 2608
GM Van Kampen, Robin NED 2606
GM Timman, Jan NED 2592
GM Saleh, Salem UAE 2586
GM Michiels, Bart BEL 2554
GM Gunina, Valentina RUS 2522
GM Klein, David NED 2514
IM Sevian, Samuel USA 2511
WIM Haast, Anne NED 2360
IM Dale, Ari AUS 2252
Average rating : 2554
Category : 13
FIDE-ratings of November 2014
Wesley finally has his time to shine.
I hope GM Wesley So will win the 2015 Tata Steel Masters, its difficult but not impossible with hard work, great preparation, great physical form & excellent coaching by the esteem & legendary Coach Susan Polgar at his side. It would be great if as early as November, GM Wesley So had already made preparation for each & every participant in Tata Steel Masters Re: Reviewing & Studying all their past games, strengths, weakness & play-design, strategy, tactics & opening preparation for each of the participants like he was preparing for the World Championship match. The Tata Steel Masters tourney is a great venue for GM Wesley So to up his level of play, go further up in rankings, beat world class opponents and introduce himself to be a serious contender in the chess world. God luck & prepare hard.