On November 16, at 4:00 p.m. Yerevan time, World Blitz Championship 2010 starts in Moscow.

Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2802), Levon Aronian (Armenia, 2801), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2791), Alexander Grischuk (Russia, 2771), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan, 2763), Sergey Karjakin (Russia, 2760), Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraiine, 2744), Teimur Rajabov (Azerbaijan, 2744), Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine, 2742), Boris Gelfand (Israel, 2741), Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 2741), Peter Svedler (Russia, 2722), Sergei Movsesian (Slovakia, 2721), Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia, 2720), Fabiano Caruana (Italy, 2709), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France, 2703), Dmitry Andreikin (Russia, 2683), Rauf Mamedov (Azerbaijan, 2660), Boris Grachev (Russia, 2654), Boris Savchenko (Russia, 2632) will participate in the championship.