For all blitz chess competitions each player will have 3 minutes plus 2 seconds per move, starting from move one (G 3’+2”), for the whole game.
| OPEN SECTION | ||
| NAME | FED | BLITZ RATING |
| Andreikin, Dmitry | RUS | 2793 |
| Dominguez Perez, Leinier | USA | 2743 |
| Korobov, Anton | UKR | 2738 |
| Mamedov, Rauf | AZE | 2730 |
| Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2724 |
| Leko, Peter | HUN | 2721 |
| Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi | IND | 2715 |
| Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2706 |
| Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2699 |
| Cheparinov, Ivan | GEO | 2695 |
| Wang, Hao | CHN | 2688 |
| Jones, Gawain C B | ENG | 2687 |
| Fedoseev, Vladimir | RUS | 2684 |
| Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2681 |
| Rapport, Richard | HUN | 2674 |
| Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | 2671 |
| WOMEN SECTION | ||
| NAME | FED | BLITZ RATING |
| Lei, Tingjie | CHN | 2502 |
| Gunina, Valentina | RUS | 2491 |
| Dzagnidze, Nana | GEO | 2488 |
| Stefanova, Antoaneta | BUL | 2469 |
| Koneru, Humpy | IND | 2466 |
| Zhao, Xue | CHN | 2460 |
| Harika, Dronavalli | IND | 2452 |
| Kosteniuk, Alexandra | RUS | 2451 |
| Ushenina, Anna | UKR | 2433 |
| Bodnaruk, Anastasia | RUS | 2429 |
| Tan, Zhongyi | CHN | 2408 |
| Krush, Irina | USA | 2397 |
| Paehtz, Elisabeth | GER | 2381 |
| Abdumalik, Zhansaya | KAZ | 2368 |
| Khotenashvili, Bela | GEO | 2361 |
| Muzychuk, Mariya | UKR | 2358 |