Banda

This year's festival runs from 25 January - 2 February and the Masters tournament will feature the strongest field yet with 57 Grandmasters, 11 of which are rated over 2700 Elo.
The format is a 10-round Swiss with a time control of 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves, and finally 15 minutes to finish with a 30 second second increment from the start of the game. Games start at 15:00 local time (14:00 UTC), except the last round which is at 11:00 (10:00 UTC).

Top Participants:
No.
1 GM Svidler Peter
2 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar
3 GM Adams Michael
4 GM Almasi Zoltan
5 GM Le Quang Liem
6 GM Polgar Judit
7 GM Shirov Alexei
8 GM Laznicka Viktor
9 GM Sutovsky Emil
10 GM Movsesian Sergei
11 GM Sasikiran Krishnan
12 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime
13 GM Sargissian Gabriel
14 GM Bologan Viktor
15 GM Short Nigel D
16 GM Fridman Daniel
17 GM Gupta Abhijeet
18 GM Parligras Mircea-Emilian
19 GM Iturrizaga Edoardo
20 GM Lupulescu Constantin
21 GM Gustafsson Jan
22 GM Negi Parimarjan
23 GM Erdos Viktor
24 GM Akobian Varuzhan
25 GM Hou Yifan