Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov were ineligible to participate, due to special privileges they already have in the 2008-2009 World Championship cycle. All other leading players, including world champion Viswanathan Anand, were eligible to participate. However Anand, who is already seeded into the 2008-2009 cycle, elected not to play. Three other players who had recently competed in the World Chess Championship 2007 in Mexico - Péter Lékó, Aleksandr Morozevich and Boris Gelfand - elected not to play. Lékó and Morozevich refused to take part as a form of protest against the special privileges given for the inclusion of Kramnik and Topalov in the World Chess Championship Cycle
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