FIDE's April 2006 ratings – revised

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4/12/2006 – FIDE has done a silent update to their April 2006 rating list. Vassily Ivanchuk and Nigel Short had both lost points from games they had never played. Ivanchuk is now at number seven (originally ten) and Short has moved up ten ranks, from 37 to 27. Efimenko lost 14 points and dropped 15 places. Corrected list (updated).

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Corrected FIDE April 2006 Rating Lists

The most significant change is to the rating and ranking of Vassily Ivanchuk, who was 10th in the originally published list with 2723 points and 28 games played. One of these, a league game, was not actually played and recorded as a loss for Ivanchuk. Removing it raised the Ukrainian GM to rank 7 with a rating of 2731, eight points more than before.

Nigel Short too was suffering from a game he had never played. Removing it took him from rank 37 to 27, with an Elo of 2677 instead of originally 2668.

Vugar Gashimov has gained 15 points in the revised list (2659 instead of 2644) and moved from rank 66 to 49. This is recorded in the revised Top 100 Players list, but not reflected in the Top 20 Juniors (where he is still at 2644).

Zahar Efimenko has three more games in the revised list and moves down from rank 43 to 58. He got 14 points deducted from the originally published rating, moving from 2662 to 2648.

The following list was corrected manually by us, with all changes given in boldface. The method we used to revise the list and pull out the statistics given above was cumbersome and may have resulted in errors. You can compare the original list with the new list as now published on the FIDE site.

Top 100 Players April 2006

Rank Name Title Country Rating Diff Gms
 1  Topalov, Veselin  g  BUL  2804    27
 2  Anand, Viswanathan  g  IND  2803    13
 3  Aronian, Levon  g  ARM  2756    27
 4  Svidler, Peter  g  RUS  2743    28
 5  Leko, Peter  g  HUN  2738    27
 6  Ponomariov, Ruslan  g  UKR  2738    16
 7  Ivanchuk, Vassily  g  UKR  2731 +8  27
 8  Morozevich, Alexander  g  RUS  2730    10
 9  Kramnik, Vladimir  g  RUS  2729    11
 10  Gelfand, Boris  g  ISR  2727    13
 11  Adams, Michael  g  ENG  2720    15
 12  Grischuk, Alexander  g  RUS  2719    3
 13  Radjabov, Teimour  g  AZE  2717    14
 14  Polgar, Judit  g  HUN  2711    0
 15  Bacrot, Etienne  g  FRA  2708    30
 16  Akopian, Vladimir  g  ARM  2706    19
 17  Bareev, Evgeny  g  RUS  2701    11
 18  Shirov, Alexei  g  ESP  2699    10
 19  Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar  g  AZE  2699    25
 20  Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter  g  ROM  2695    3
 21  Sasikiran, Krishnan  g  IND  2692    27
 22  Malakhov, Vladimir  g  RUS  2691    11
 23  Rublevsky, Sergei  g  RUS  2687    11
 24  Lautier, Joel  g  FRA  2682    3
 25  Harikrishna, P.  g  IND  2680    7
 26  Georgiev, Kiril  g  BUL  2677    28
 27  Short, Nigel D.  g  ENG  2677 +9  10
 28  Sokolov, Ivan  g  NED  2676    16
 29  Jakovenko, Dmitry  g  RUS  2675    24
 30  Kasimdzhanov, Rustam  g  UZB  2673    3
 31  Dreev, Alexey  g  RUS  2673    20
 32  Karpov, Anatoly  g  RUS  2672    0
 33  Kamsky, Gata  g  USA  2671    13
 34  Korneev, Oleg  g  RUS  2671    79
 35  Zvjaginsev, Vadim  g  RUS  2670    11
 36  Azmaiparashvili, Zurab  g  GEO  2669    17
 37  Tiviakov, Sergei  g  NED  2669    23
 38  Bologan, Viktor  g  MDA  2666    22
 39  Vallejo Pons, Francisco  g  ESP  2666    23
 40  Eljanov, Pavel  g  UKR  2665    11
 41  Naiditsch, Arkadij  g  GER  2664    25
 42  Nakamura, Hikaru  g  USA  2664    14
 43  Smirin, Ilia  g  ISR  2662    0
 44  Moiseenko, Alexander  g  UKR  2662    18
 45  Karjakin, Sergey  g  UKR  2661    22
 46  Areshchenko, Alexander  g  UKR  2660    21
 47  Motylev, Alexander  g  RUS  2660    33
 48  Volokitin, Andrei  g  UKR  2660    9
 49 Gashimov, Vugar  g  AZE  2659 +15  23
 50  Navara, David  g  CZE  2658    13
 51  Almasi, Zoltan  g  HUN  2657    13
 52  Van Wely, Loek  g  NED  2655    13
 53  Kobalia, Mikhail  g  RUS  2654    0
 54  Najer, Evgeniy  g  RUS  2653    14
 55  Bruzon, Lazaro  g  CUB  2652    24
 56  Krasenkow, Michal  g  POL  2650    11
 57  Onischuk, Alexander  g  USA  2650    0
 58  Efimenko, Zahar  g  UKR  2648 –14  21
 59  Izoria, Zviad  g  GEO  2647    16
 60  Dominguez, Lenier  g  CUB  2647    9
 61  Nielsen, Peter Heine  g  DEN  2646    2
 62  Asrian, Karen  g  ARM  2646    13
 63  Carlsen, Magnus  g  NOR  2646    13
 64  Timofeev, Artyom  g  RUS  2646    9
 65  Miton, Kamil  g  POL  2646    0
 66  Jobava, Baadur  g  GEO  2646    22
 67  Gurevich, Mikhail  g  TUR  2643    13
 68  Tkachiev, Vladislav  g  FRA  2643    3
 69  Khalifman, Alexander  g  RUS  2640    20
 70  Delchev, Aleksander  g  BUL  2640    11
 71  Alekseev, Evgeny  g  RUS  2640    9
 72  Bu, Xiangzhi  g  CHN  2640    9
 73  Zhang, Zhong  g  CHN  2640    8
 74  Bauer, Christian  g  FRA  2638    30
 75  Ibragimov, Ildar  g  USA  2637    15
 76  Sakaev, Konstantin  g  RUS  2637    12
 77  Seirawan, Yasser  g  USA  2635    0
 78  Cheparinov, Ivan  g  BUL  2635    29
 79  Aleksandrov, Aleksej  g  BLR  2634    14
 80  Fressinet, Laurent  g  FRA  2633    19
 81  Avrukh, Boris  g  ISR  2633    0
 82  Atalik, Suat  g  TUR  2632 +4  22
 83  Huebner, Robert Dr.  g  GER  2632    0
 84  Granda Zuniga, Julio E  g  PER  2631    0
 85  Sutovsky, Emil  g  ISR  2628    10
 86  Sokolov, Andrei  g  FRA  2628    10
 87  Milov, Vadim  g  SUI  2625 +3  19
 88  Zhang, Pengxiang  g  CHN  2623    9
 89  Beliavsky, Alexander G  g  SLO  2622    13
 90  Vescovi, Giovanni  g  BRA  2622    13
 91  Istratescu, Andrei  g  ROM  2621    3
 92  Volkov, Sergey  g  RUS  2620    30
 93  Sadvakasov, Darmen  g  KAZ  2619    9
 94  Lputian, Smbat G  g  ARM  2619    3
 95  Hjartarson, Johann  g  ISL  2619    0
 96  Galkin, Alexander  g  RUS  2618    9
 97  Korotylev, Alexey  g  RUS  2618    9
 98  Movsesian, Sergei  g  SVK  2618    9
 99  Paragua, Mark  g  PHI  2617    8
 100  Timman, Jan H  g  NED  2616    7
 101  Vladimirov, Evgeny  g  KAZ  2616    0

All data by courtesy of FIDE (http://www.fide.com).

Addendum:

We have received a list of some more changes made by FIDE:

Rank Name Old New
  1

Aroshidze Levan GEO

2492

2498

  2

Atakisi Umut TUR

2429

2419

  3

Atalik Suat TUR

2627

2632

  4

Can Emre TUR

2277

2286

  5

Duman Aydin TUR

2214

2241

  6

Erdogdu Mert TUR

2373

2375

  7

Erturan Yakup TUR

2332

2353

  8

Esen Baris TUR

2420

2429

  9

Gagunashvili Merab GEO

2555

2560

 10

Gashimov Vugar AZE

2644

2659

 11

Guseinov Gadir AZE

2610

2615

 12

Haznedaroglu Kivanc TUR

2453

2455

 13

Inarkiev Ernesto RUS

2598

2602

 14

Iotov Valentin BUL

2440

2432

 15

Ivanchuk Vassily UKR

2723

2731

 16

Kuzubov Yuriy UKR

2548

2554

 17

Mamedov Rauf AZE

2529

2538

 18

Miroshnichenko Evgenij UKR

2597

2608

 19

Yagiz Yasin Emrah TUR

2279

2320

 20

Yeke Serkan TUR

2255

2252

 Women
 1

Atalik Ekaterina TUR

2379

2393

 2

Dzagnidze Nana GEO

2442

2454

 23

Gvetadze Sopio GEO

2282

2331

 4

Lomineishvili Maia GEO

2399

2395

 5

Melia Salome GEO

2393

2391

 6

Muzychuk Anna SLO

2419

2418

 7

Ozturk Kubra TUR

2036

2034

 8

Topel Zehra TUR

2139

2132

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