Players participating in the third leg :
| Name |
CTY |
Zug |
| Radjabov, Teimour |
AZE |
2793 |
| Karjakin, Sergey |
RUS |
2786 |
| Caruana, Fabiano |
ITA |
2772 |
| Topalov, Veselin |
BUL |
2771 |
| Nakamura, Hikaru |
USA |
2767 |
| Mamedyarov, Shakriyar |
AZE |
2766 |
| Morozevich, Alexander |
RUS |
2758 |
| Leko, Peter |
HUN |
2744 |
| Kamsky, Gata |
USA |
2741 |
| Ponomariov, Ruslan |
UKR |
2733 |
| Giri, Anish |
NLD |
2727 |
| Kasimdzhanov, Rustam |
UZB |
2709 |
GM Gata Kamsky has replaced GM Gashimov for the rest of the series.
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