Here is the latest list of participants of the upcoming World Blitz Championship
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | GM | NOR | 2802 |
| 2 | Aronian, Levon | GM | ARM | 2801 |
| 3 | Kramnik, Vladimir | GM | RUS | 2791 |
| 4 | Grischuk, Alexander | GM | RUS | 2771 |
| 5 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | GM | AZE | 2763 |
| 6 | Karjakin, Sergey | GM | RUS | 2760 |
| 7 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | GM | UKR | 2744 |
| 8 | Radjabov, Teimour | GM | AZE | 2744 |
| 9 | Eljanov, Pavel | GM | UKR | 2742 |
| 10 | Gelfand, Boris | GM | ISR | 2741 |
| 11 | Nakamura, Hikaru | GM | USA | 2741 |
| 12 | Svidler, Peter | GM | RUS | 2722 |
| 13 | Movsesian, Sergei | GM | SVK | 2721 |
| 14 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | GM | RUS | 2720 |
| 15 | Caruana, Fabiano | GM | ITA | 2709 |
| 16 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | GM | FRA | 2703 |
| 17 | Andreikin, Dmitry | GM | RUS | 2683 |
| 18 | Mamedov, Rauf | GM | AZE | 2660 |
| 19 | Grachev, Boris | GM | RUS | 2654 |
| 20 | Savchenko, Boris | GM | RUS | 2632 |
Defending champion: Magnus Carlsen
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Carlsen will win again, no doubt.
Nakamura will be like a serial killer and win all games.
Aronian is the best blitz player bar none. He has won it many many times.
Mr. Anonymous 2:21:00,
In WBC 2009, Aronian was 12th place with 21 points out of 42 total, only 50%. Carlsen was 31 points.
What are you smoking, are you named Laffertee?
Where are the women?
Kosteniuk was an embarrassment last year as she finished dead last. So I don’t think they’ll invite her again, especially she presented that she was the greatest player in that field.
Now that Nakamura is getting the recognition he deserves, his blitz prowess will be proven. He has already beaten Carlsen, Ponomariov and many top GMs in blitz match! In addition, he has yet to lose to Carlsen in classical chess, In fact, the last classical game played between the two, Carlsen was worse playing the white pieces. Chess needs fighting chess and Nakamura has proven to be a relentless attacker and tactician!
(see blitz playoff Giri vs Nakamura to decide a spot in the Melody Amber blindfold/rapid/blitz tournament in 2011)
Now that they finally managed to invite Nakamura, they can call it World Championship – though Anand, Ivanchuk, Shirov are missing.
Carlsen is the best player and proved it last year.
Hikaru however knows no fear and frightens everyone and so we’ll have an exciting fight.
Anand is a huge absence.