The players are:
- Grandmaster Veselin Topalov. FIDE world champion 2005-2006;
peak rating 2813
- Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand. FIDE world champion 2000-2002,
2008; peak rating 2799
- Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov. FIDE world champion 1993-1999;
peak rating 2780
Observe that Topalov beats Anand, Anand beats Karpov, and Karpov beats
Topalov (here, beats means wins more games than).
The games thus resemble a noisy version of rock paper scissors.