Chess Oscar 2005 for Veselin Topalov

The Russian chess magazine «64» has announced that the winner of the eleventh chess Oscar is the current FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov. He was chosen by 361 chess experts from 68 countries. These experts nominated the ten strongest players, awarding 13 points for the first nominee, 11 for the second, nine for the third, seven for the fourth, six for fifth.... until one for the tenth.

Veselin Topalov with his Chess Oscar

The bronze figurine of the "Fascinated Wanderer" will be formally handed over to Topalov on May 10th 2006 at the opening of the international tournament in Sofia. In ceremony will most likely be attended by the president of Bulgaria, George Pravanov, and the president of the International Chess Federation Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who will hand over the prize to the winner.

In the followint table you can see how many points each player received, and how often that player appeared first on the 293 lists submitted.

Pl.	Player	Country	Points	1st
1	Veselin Topalov	Bulgaria	4376	219
2	Viswanathan Anand	India	3495	31
3	Levon Aronian	Armenia	2721	10
4	Peter Svidler	Russia	1881	1
5	Peter Leko	Hungary	1187	6
6	Alexander Morozevich	Russia	1025	4
7	Garry Kasparov	Russia	1001	8
8	Vasily Ivanchuk	Ukraine	968	2
9	Ruslan Ponomarev	Ukraine	821	10
10	Magnus Carlsen	Norway	433	2

The above rankings appeared on in a report published by the Oscar organisers «64». The official FIDE Oscar site give a slightly different graph of "voting results".

Points achieved by the top 50 nominees

1 Topalov, Veselin (BUL)
2 Anand, Viswanathan (IND)
3 Aronian, Levon (ARM)
4 Kasparov, Garry (RUS)
5 Atalik, Suat (TUR)
6 Gurevich, Mikhail (TUR)
7 Leko, Peter (HUN)
8 Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR)
9 Svidler, Peter (RUS)
10 Carlsen, Magnus (NOR)
11 Radjabov, Teimour (AZE)
12 Morozevich, Alexander (RUS)
13 Polgar, Judit (HUN)
14 Akopian, Vladimir (ARM)
15 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (AZE)
16 Kramnik, Vladimir (RUS)
17 Adams, Michael (ENG)
18 Karpov, Anatoly (RUS)
19 Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR)
20 Asrian, Karen (ARM)
21 Karjakin, Sergey (UKR)
22 Harikrishna, P. (IND)
23 Bacrot, Etienne (FRA)
24 Sasikiran, Krishnan (IND)
25 Kamsky, Gata (USA)
26 Cheparinov, Ivan (BUL)
27 Grischuk, Alexander (RUS)
28 Movsesian, Sergei (SVK)
29 Shirov, Alexei (ESP)
30 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam (UZB)
31 Gelfand, Boris (ISR)
32 Paragua, Mark (PHI)
33 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter (ROM)
34 Nakamura, Hikaru (USA)
35 Georgiev, Kiril (BUL)
36 Naiditsch, Arkadij (GER)
37 Bareev, Evgeny (RUS)
38 Vallejo Pons, Francisco (ESP)
39 Gashimov, Vugar (AZE)
40 Short, Nigel D. (ENG)
41 Rublevsky, Sergei (RUS)
42 Bruzon, Lazaro (CUB)
43 Azmaiparashvili, Zurab (GEO)
44 Vescovi, Giovanni (BRA)
45 Zhang, Zhong (CHN)
46 Van Wely, Loek (NED)
47 Miton, Kamil (POL)
48 Izoria, Zviad (GEO)
49 Ibragimov, Ildar (USA)
50 Aleksandrov, Aleksej (BLR)