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The FIDE Moscow Grand Prix takes place from June 1st to 6th, 2002. The top players are Garry Kasparov, Ruslan Ponomariov, Evgeny Dreev, Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexander Grischuk.
Of the 30 players only nine are not Russian speaking: Judit Polgar (Hungarian), Joel Lautier (French), Kiril Georgiev (Bulgarian), Etienne Bacrot (French), Pedrag Nikolic (Bosnia), Viktor Bologan (Moldavia), Krishnan Sasikiran (India), Yasser Seirawan (USA) and Ehsam Ghaem (IRI).
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List of players |
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| 01. Kasparov, Garry | RUS | 2838 | |
| 02. Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2743 | |
| 03. Bareev, Evgeny | RUS | 2724 | |
| 04. Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2711 | |
| 05. Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2702 | |
| 06. Khalifman, Alexander | RUS | 2698 | |
| 07. Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2688 | |
| 08. Smirin, Ilya | ISR | 2685 | |
| 09. Akopian, Vladimir | ARM | 2678 | |
| 10. Dreev, Alexey | RUS | 2677 | |
| 11. Polgar, Judit | HUN | 2677 | |
| 12. Azmaiparashvili, Zurab | GEO | 2676 | |
| 13. Lautier, Joel | FRA | 2675 | |
| 14. Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | UZB | 2674 | |
| 15. Vaganian, Rafael A. | ARM | 2664 | |
| 16. Beliavsky, Alexander | SLO | 2661 | |
| 17. Sutovsky, Emil | ISR | 2660 | |
| 18. Rublevsky, Sergey | RUS | 2657 | |
| 19. Georgiev, Kiril | MKD | 2654 | |
| 20. Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2653 | |
| 21. Nikolic, Predrag | BIH | 2653 | |
| 22. Bologan, Victor | MDA | 2652 | |
| 23. Gurevich, Mikhail | BEL | 2641 | |
| 24. Onischuk, Alexander | USA | 2641 | |
| 25. Sasikiran, Krishnan | IND | 2633 | |
| 26. Seirawan, Yasser | USA | 2631 | |
| 27. Motylev, Alexander | RUS | 2622 | |
| 28. Radjabov, Tejmour | AZE | 2610 | |
| 29. Ehlvest, Jaan | EST | 2588 | |
| 30. Ghaem, Ehsam Maghami | IRI | 2519 |
The following top players will not participate: Vladimir Kramnik, Vishy Anand, Veselin Topalov, Peter Leko, Alexander Morozevich, Alexei Shirov, Boris Gelfand, Anatoly Karpov.
