Turkish İş Bank Chess League is taking place in Izmir, Kaya Thermal Hotel. Among 100 titled players there are super grandmasters and elite professionals including: 

 

GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2764), GM Vasyl Ivanchuk (2728), GM Ernesto Inarkiev (2730), GM Ivan, Cheparınov (2688), GM Baadur Jobava (2669), GM Rauf Mamedov (2666), GM Sergei Zhigalko (2653), GM Aleksandr Rakhmanov (2653), GM Ivan Salgado Lopez (2651), GM Aleksandr Moiseenko (2649), GM Hrant Melkumyan (2640), GM Yuriy Kuzubov (2635), GM Boris Savchenko (2633), GM Michal Krasenkow (2614), GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili (2604), GM Nidjat Mammadov (2588), reigning world junior champion GM Mikhail Antipov (2584), GM Aryan Tari (2571), GM Anna Muzychuk (2545) and the former women’s world champion  GM Anna Ushenina (2458) and Turkey’s number 1 player and top 100 grandmaster  Alexander Ipatov (2657), Dragan Solak (2633), Mustafa Yılmaz (2622), Emre Can (2571), Barış Esen (2516), Kıvanç Haznedaroğlu (2491) are also among the field.