| Not official version of groups! | ||||
| This is how groups will look like if only minor changes on the list of players. | ||||
| (green – players are in the same group as seeded by WR, yellow – players moved to another group to balance number of players from the same country in one group) | ||||
| Final seeding could be done before tournament. | ||||
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | |
| 1 | RUS-Alexey Titov | SWE-Lars Henriksson | SWE-Joakim Lundin | RUS-Dmitriy Belavin |
| 2 | LAT-Sergejs Mihejevs | RUS-Vitaly Skorobogatov | NOR-Yngve Aasheim | DEN-Bjarne Axelsen |
| 3 | CZE-Vaclav Pikl | CZE-Pavel Plesak | CZE-Daniel Matysek | UKR-Mykhaylo Shalomayev |
| 4 | SWE-Truls Mansson | FIN-Jari Sahlgren | RUS-Yuriy Prostakov | SWE-Lars-Erik Svensson |
| 5 | LAT-Aleksandrs Zernovojs | NOR-Espen Moe | UKR-Vitaliy Sapozhnikov | FIN-Kimmo Eriksson |
| 6 | GBR-Simon Thomas | LAT-Raimonds Isa | FIN-Petteri Sevon | EST-Igor Saveljev |
| 7 | EST-Vafa Hamdamov | GER-Thomas Haussknecht | LAT-Arnis Vitols | CZE-Milos Sevr |
| 8 | UKR-Vitaliy Ignatenko | BLR-Andrei Kniaziuk | UKR-Mykola Krokhmal | LAT-Ilgvars Pavlovskis |
| 9 | FIN-Vesa Koskela | UKR-Igor Zaporojets | LTU-Audrius Pleikys | GER-Ralph Pommerenke |
| 10 | GER-Frank Rasche | EST-Sergei Sokolov | DEN-Michael Toft Nielsen | LTU-Vladimir Voronov |
| 11 | BLR-Alexandre Valachonovitch | |||