Tata Steel begins Soon!

The 75th Tata Steel Chess Tournament:  11-27 January 2013 in Wijk aan Zee.  Who is your favorite GM?  I am cheering for GM Hikaru Nakamura, winner from 2011, in GM Group A.  In GM Group B my favorite is GM Jan Smeets and in GM Group C is the dutch chess goddess, WIM Lisa Schut.

GM Hikaru Nakamura

GM Jan Smeets

WIM Lisa Schut

Grandmaster Group A (average rating:  2732)
	Name	Country	Rating
GM	Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	2861
GM	Aronian, Levon	ARM	2802
GM	Caruana, Fabiano	ITA	2781
GM	Karjakin, Sergey	RUS	2780
GM	Anand, Viswanathan	IND	2772
GM	Nakamura, Hikaru	USA	2769
GM	Wang, Hao	CHN	2752
GM	Leko, Peter	HUN	2735
GM	Giri, Anish	NED	2720
GM	Harikrishna, Pentala	IND	2698
GM	van Wely, Loek	NED	2679
GM	Sokolov, Ivan	NED	2663
GM	L'Ami, Erwin	NED	2627
GM	Hou, Yifan	CHN	2603
Grandmaster Group B (average rating:  2627)
GM	Naiditsch, Arkadij	GER	2708
GM	Movsesian, Sergei	ARM	2688
GM	Edouard, Romain	FRA	2686
GM	Tiviakov, Sergey	NED	2655
GM	Ni, Hua	CHN	2646
GM	Turov, Maxim	RUS	2630
GM	Rapport, Richard	HUN	2621
GM	Nikolic, Predrag	BIH	2619
GM	Smeets, Jan	NED	2615
GM	Dubov, Daniil	RUS	2600
GM	Ipatov, Alexander	TUR	2587
GM	van Kampen, Robin	NED	2581
GM	Grandelius, Nils	SWE	2572
GM	Timman, Jan	NED	2566
Grandmaster Group C (average rating:  2476)
GM	Peralta, Fernando	ARG	2617
GM	Kovchan, Alexander	UKR	2579
GM	Brunello, Sabino	ITA	2572
GM	Mekhitarian, Krikor	BRA	2543
GM	Romanishin, Oleg	UKR	2521
IM	Gretarsson, Hjörvar Steinn	ISL	2516
GM	Swinkels, Robin	NED	2508
IM	Burg, Twan	NED	2492
IM	van der Werf, Mark	NED	2450
IM	Klein, David	NED	2445
WGM	Goryachkina, Alexandra	RUS	2402
IM	Bitensky, Igor	ISR	2400
FM	Admiraal, Miguoël	NED	2321
WIM	Schut, Lisa	NED	2295