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World Champion Viswanathan Anand has gained four points to cross the magic 2800 line and top the April 2008 alone (in the previous list he was equal first with Kramnik). Vladimir Kramnik shed eleven points to move to second place at 2788. Third is Alexander Morozevich who gained nine to reach 2774; fourth Veselin Topalov who lost 13 to sink to 2767.
The sensation of the list, of course, is the Norwegian GM Magnus Carlsen (above), who at the age of 17 years and four months has climbed to place five in the world rankings, having gained a resounding 32 points to bring his Elo rating to 2765. Statisticians and historians need to get to work: is it the first time ever for a 17-year-old? Has anyone at that age ever approached the top rating by 38 points? Is there anything to stop this lad from becoming world champion? We for our part can only say: congrats Magus, keep it up! You are one of the most intriguing personalities in current-day chess.
Going down the list a bit we find that Levon Aronian has gained 24 points to install himself firmly in place six. It is interesting to note that the Armenian is just two points behind Carlsen and four shy of Topalov. Other notables in the April 2008 list:
Addendum: On April 3rd FIDE has corrected the list to include Judit Polgar in place 21.
Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
1 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2803 | 27 | 1969 |
2 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2788 | 13 | 1975 |
3 | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2774 | 11 | 1977 |
4 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2767 | 27 | 1975 |
5 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2765 | 27 | 1990 |
6 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2763 | 27 | 1982 |
7 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2752 | 13 | 1985 |
8 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2751 | 27 | 1987 |
9 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2746 | 11 | 1976 |
10 | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2741 | 27 | 1979 |
11 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2740 | 35 | 1969 |
12 | Shirov, Alexei | g | ESP | 2740 | 14 | 1972 |
13 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | UKR | 2732 | 0 | 1990 |
14 | Adams, Michael | g | ENG | 2729 | 13 | 1971 |
15 | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2726 | 0 | 1974 |
16 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2723 | 13 | 1968 |
17 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2719 | 0 | 1983 |
18 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2716 | 11 | 1983 |
19 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2711 | 11 | 1983 |
20 | Alekseev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2711 | 0 | 1985 |
21 | Polgar, Judit | g | HUN | 2709 | 13 | 1976 |
22 | Bu, Xiangzhi | g | CHN | 2708 | 16 | 1985 |
23 | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2705 | 13 | 1983 |
24 | Ni, Hua | g | CHN | 2703 | 28 | 1983 |
25 | Movsesian, Sergei | g | SVK | 2695 | 29 | 1978 |
26 | Dominguez Perez, Lenier | g | CUB | 2695 | 15 | 1983 |
27 | Cheparinov, Ivan | g | BUL | 2695 | 13 | 1986 |
28 | Rublevsky, Sergei | g | RUS | 2695 | 0 | 1974 |
29 | Sokolov, Ivan | g | NED | 2690 | 1 | 1968 |
30 | Milov, Vadim | g | SUI | 2690 | 0 | 1972 |
31 | Wang, Yue | g | CHN | 2689 | 33 | 1987 |
32 | Malakhov, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2689 | 5 | 1980 |
33 | Eljanov, Pavel | g | UKR | 2687 | 13 | 1983 |
34 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2686 | 17 | 1987 |
35 | Wang, Hao | g | CHN | 2684 | 25 | 1989 |
36 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | g | RUS | 2684 | 20 | 1985 |
37 | Volokitin, Andrei | g | UKR | 2684 | 16 | 1986 |
38 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | g | ESP | 2684 | 7 | 1982 |
39 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | g | ROU | 2684 | 0 | 1976 |
40 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | g | UZB | 2681 | 0 | 1979 |
41 | Harikrishna, P. | g | IND | 2679 | 30 | 1986 |
42 | Gashimov, Vugar | g | AZE | 2679 | 18 | 1986 |
43 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | g | IND | 2679 | 5 | 1981 |
44 | Bareev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2677 | 0 | 1966 |
45 | Van Wely, Loek | g | NED | 2676 | 15 | 1972 |
46 | Nikolic, Predrag | g | BIH | 2674 | 17 | 1960 |
47 | Almasi, Zoltan | g | HUN | 2674 | 9 | 1976 |
48 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | g | RUS | 2674 | 9 | 1976 |
49 | Akopian, Vladimir | g | ARM | 2673 | 17 | 1971 |
50 | Navara, David | g | CZE | 2672 | 9 | 1985 |
51 | Fedorchuk, Sergey A. | g | UKR | 2671 | 24 | 1981 |
52 | Motylev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2666 | 18 | 1979 |
53 | Bologan, Viktor | g | MDA | 2665 | 19 | 1971 |
54 | Georgiev, Kiril | g | BUL | 2665 | 10 | 1965 |
55 | Timofeev, Artyom | g | RUS | 2664 | 29 | 1985 |
56 | Onischuk, Alexander | g | USA | 2664 | 0 | 1975 |
57 | Efimenko, Zahar | g | UKR | 2660 | 19 | 1985 |
58 | Short, Nigel D | g | ENG | 2660 | 13 | 1965 |
59 | Roiz, Michael | g | ISR | 2659 | 9 | 1983 |
60 | Jobava, Baadur | g | GEO | 2658 | 25 | 1983 |
61 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2658 | 11 | 1987 |
62 | Dreev, Alexey | g | RUS | 2657 | 20 | 1969 |
63 | Lautier, Joel | g | FRA | 2657 | 0 | 1973 |
64 | Tkachiev, Vladislav | g | FRA | 2657 | 0 | 1973 |
65 | Fressinet, Laurent | g | FRA | 2656 | 0 | 1981 |
66 | Karpov, Anatoly | g | RUS | 2655 | 0 | 1951 |
67 | Korneev, Oleg | g | RUS | 2651 | 44 | 1969 |
68 | Predojevic, Borki | g | BIH | 2651 | 27 | 1987 |
69 | Moiseenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2650 | 27 | 1980 |
70 | Areshchenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2650 | 19 | 1986 |
71 | Postny, Evgeny | g | ISR | 2649 | 16 | 1981 |
72 | Sakaev, Konstantin | g | RUS | 2649 | 11 | 1974 |
73 | Ivanisevic, Ivan | g | SRB | 2649 | 0 | 1977 |
74 | Baklan, Vladimir | g | UKR | 2647 | 0 | 1978 |
75 | Afromeev, Vladimir | f | RUS | 2646 | 0 | 1954 |
76 | Socko, Bartosz | g | POL | 2644 | 26 | 1978 |
77 | Sargissian, Gabriel | g | ARM | 2643 | 20 | 1983 |
78 | Miroshnichenko, Evgenij | g | UKR | 2642 | 18 | 1978 |
79 | Beliavsky, Alexander G | g | SLO | 2641 | 26 | 1953 |
80 | Fridman, Daniel | g | GER | 2640 | 10 | 1976 |
81 | Zhang, Pengxiang | g | CHN | 2640 | 0 | 1980 |
82 | Delchev, Aleksander | g | BUL | 2639 | 9 | 1971 |
83 | Riazantsev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2638 | 18 | 1985 |
84 | Mchedlishvili, Mikheil | g | GEO | 2635 | 0 | 1979 |
85 | Tiviakov, Sergei | g | NED | 2634 | 26 | 1973 |
86 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | g | RUS | 2634 | 22 | 1990 |
87 | Shabalov, Alexander | g | USA | 2633 | 22 | 1967 |
88 | Landa, Konstantin | g | RUS | 2633 | 19 | 1972 |
89 | Volkov, Sergey | g | RUS | 2633 | 18 | 1974 |
90 | Avrukh, Boris | g | ISR | 2632 | 9 | 1978 |
91 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | g | FRA | 2632 | 9 | 1990 |
92 | Asrian, Karen | g | ARM | 2630 | 29 | 1980 |
93 | Sutovsky, Emil | g | ISR | 2630 | 16 | 1977 |
94 | Smirin, Ilia | g | ISR | 2630 | 14 | 1968 |
95 | Solak, Dragan | g | SRB | 2630 | 9 | 1980 |
96 | Seirawan, Yasser | g | USA | 2630 | 1 | 1960 |
97 | Tregubov, Pavel V. | g | RUS | 2629 | 16 | 1971 |
98 | Nielsen, Peter Heine | g | DEN | 2629 | 5 | 1973 |
99 | Sadvakasov, Darmen | g | KAZ | 2629 | 3 | 1979 |
100 | Khalifman, Alexander | g | RUS | 2628 | 9 | 1966 |
101 | Istratescu, Andrei | g | ROU | 2628 | 7 | 1975 |
Here is where we find Judit Polgar, at the top of the Women's list. She has gained two points from 13 games played in the rating period, so we really do not understand why she is not in the main list. Probably just a glitch in the generation of the list.
In second place is the second female player in history to cross the 2600 mark, Koneru Humpy. In third, snapping at her heels, is the Chinese chess phenomenon Hou Yifan, who turned 14 just a month ago. Like Carlsen all we can say is: who is to stop this lass from becoming world champion?
Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
1 | Polgar, Judit | g | HUN | 2709 | 13 | 1976 |
2 | Koneru, Humpy | g | IND | 2603 | 13 | 1987 |
3 | Hou, Yifan | wg | CHN | 2549 | 22 | 1994 |
4 | Cramling, Pia | g | SWE | 2539 | 38 | 1963 |
5 | Stefanova, Antoaneta | g | BUL | 2538 | 35 | 1979 |
6 | Zhao, Xue | wg | CHN | 2523 | 17 | 1985 |
7 | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | g | RUS | 2523 | 0 | 1984 |
8 | Sebag, Marie | m | FRA | 2521 | 13 | 1986 |
9 | Zhu, Chen | g | QAT | 2521 | 10 | 1976 |
10 | Socko, Monika | m | POL | 2505 | 33 | 1978 |
11 | Xu, Yuhua | g | CHN | 2500 | 0 | 1976 |
12 | Kosintseva, Tatiana | m | RUS | 2497 | 11 | 1986 |
13 | Ruan, Lufei | wg | CHN | 2495 | 0 | 1987 |
14 | Chiburdanidze, Maia | g | GEO | 2489 | 0 | 1961 |
15 | Muzychuk, Anna | m | SLO | 2486 | 34 | 1990 |
16 | Krush, Irina | m | USA | 2479 | 34 | 1983 |
17 | Danielian, Elina | m | ARM | 2479 | 18 | 1978 |
18 | Lahno, Kateryna | g | UKR | 2479 | 18 | 1989 |
19 | Hoang Thanh Trang | g | HUN | 2477 | 10 | 1980 |
20 | Ushenina, Anna | m | UKR | 2474 | 39 | 1985 |
21 | Pogonina, Natalija | wg | RUS | 2470 | 38 | 1985 |
22 | Kosintseva, Nadezhda | m | RUS | 2468 | 11 | 1985 |
23 | Korbut, Ekaterina | m | RUS | 2467 | 11 | 1985 |
24 | Cmilyte, Viktorija | m | LTU | 2466 | 21 | 1983 |
25 | Javakhishvili, Lela | m | GEO | 2466 | 18 | 1984 |
26 | Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman | m | IND | 2464 | 0 | 1979 |
27 | Harika, Dronavalli | m | IND | 2461 | 48 | 1991 |
28 | Galliamova, Alisa | m | RUS | 2460 | 0 | 1972 |
29 | Zatonskih, Anna | m | USA | 2458 | 0 | 1978 |
30 | Peng, Zhaoqin | g | NED | 2455 | 15 | 1968 |
31 | Hunt, Harriet V | m | ENG | 2454 | 7 | 1978 |
32 | Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan | m | SCO | 2452 | 19 | 1968 |
33 | Zhukova, Natalia | wg | UKR | 2450 | 9 | 1979 |
34 | Paehtz, Elisabeth | m | GER | 2449 | 25 | 1985 |
35 | Dzagnidze, Nana | m | GEO | 2443 | 32 | 1987 |
36 | Skripchenko, Almira | m | FRA | 2443 | 0 | 1976 |
37 | Gaponenko, Inna | m | UKR | 2442 | 18 | 1976 |
38 | Shen, Yang | wg | CHN | 2439 | 17 | 1989 |
39 | Huang, Qian | wg | CHN | 2438 | 14 | 1986 |
40 | Ovod, Evgenija | m | RUS | 2437 | 30 | 1982 |
41 | Bojkovic, Natasa | m | SRB | 2434 | 9 | 1971 |
42 | Dembo, Yelena | m | GRE | 2429 | 18 | 1983 |
43 | Tania, Sachdev | m | IND | 2423 | 35 | 1986 |
44 | Li, Ruofan | wg | SIN | 2423 | 25 | 1978 |
45 | Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina | m | RUS | 2421 | 20 | 1974 |
46 | Matveeva, Svetlana | m | RUS | 2420 | 29 | 1969 |
47 | Shadrina, Tatiana | wg | RUS | 2418 | 11 | 1974 |
48 | Peptan, Corina-Isabela | m | ROU | 2415 | 9 | 1978 |
49 | Wang, Pin | wg | CHN | 2415 | 0 | 1974 |
50 | Melia, Salome | wg | GEO | 2413 | 30 | 1987 |
51 | Khurtsidze, Nino | m | GEO | 2413 | 21 | 1975 |
52 | Mkrtchian, Lilit | m | ARM | 2413 | 9 | 1982 |
53 | Vajda, Szidonia | m | HUN | 2413 | 2 | 1979 |
Guess who is the strongest junior in the world. Right, Magnus Carlsen, who is fifth overall in the world. He is being pursued, as always, by Sergey Karjakin, who is eleven months Carlsen's senior. Sergey won international renown when in 2002 he earned his final grandmaster norm at the age of 12 years and seven months, setting an alltime record for child prodigies. We are also watching the progress of fabulous Fabiano Caruana, whom we used to hoodwink our readers in a Who-is-this-GM quiz.
Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
1 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2765 | 27 | 1990 |
2 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | UKR | 2732 | 0 | 1990 |
3 | Wang, Hao | g | CHN | 2684 | 25 | 1989 |
4 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | g | RUS | 2634 | 22 | 1990 |
5 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | g | FRA | 2632 | 9 | 1990 |
6 | Rodshtein, Maxim | g | ISR | 2626 | 35 | 1989 |
7 | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2620 | 42 | 1992 |
8 | Mamedov, Rauf | g | AZE | 2617 | 27 | 1988 |
9 | Kuzubov, Yuriy | g | UKR | 2603 | 18 | 1990 |
10 | Popov, Ivan | g | RUS | 2594 | 11 | 1990 |
11 | Lenic, Luka | g | SLO | 2584 | 18 | 1988 |
12 | Baramidze, David | g | GER | 2583 | 9 | 1988 |
13 | Li, Chao b | g | CHN | 2581 | 28 | 1989 |
14 | Zhou, Jianchao | g | CHN | 2580 | 23 | 1988 |
15 | Andreikin, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2580 | 18 | 1990 |
16 | Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son | g | VIE | 2579 | 25 | 1990 |
17 | Le, Quang Liem | g | VIE | 2568 | 24 | 1991 |
18 | Zhigalko, Sergei | g | BLR | 2568 | 22 | 1989 |
19 | Geetha Narayanan Gopal | g | IND | 2562 | 27 | 1989 |
20 | Amin, Bassem | g | EGY | 2558 | 10 | 1988 |
We can only repeat ourselves: guess who is the strongest girl in the world. Yifan, the chess marvel, who is 63 points ahead of Anna Muzychuk in second. Our friend Katya Lahno is closing in in third, with another favourite, Harika, in fourth place.
Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
1 | Hou, Yifan | wg | CHN | 2549 | 22 | 1994 |
2 | Muzychuk, Anna | m | SLO | 2486 | 34 | 1990 |
3 | Lahno, Kateryna | g | UKR | 2479 | 18 | 1989 |
4 | Harika, Dronavalli | m | IND | 2461 | 48 | 1991 |
5 | Shen, Yang | wg | CHN | 2439 | 17 | 1989 |
6 | Tairova, Elena | m | RUS | 2412 | 29 | 1991 |
7 | Muzychuk, Mariya | wg | UKR | 2387 | 18 | 1992 |
8 | Foisor, Sabina-Francesca | wg | ROU | 2375 | 39 | 1989 |
9 | Ju, Wenjun | CHN | 2374 | 9 | 1991 | |
10 | Vasilkova, Svetlana | wm | RUS | 2373 | 16 | 1988 |
11 | Charochkina, Daria | wm | RUS | 2361 | 44 | 1990 |
12 | Girya, Olga | wf | RUS | 2361 | 20 | 1991 |
13 | Zhang, Xiaowen | wm | CHN | 2361 | 18 | 1989 |
14 | Tan, Zhongyi | CHN | 2353 | 0 | 1991 | |
15 | Bodnaruk, Anastasia | wf | RUS | 2347 | 36 | 1992 |
16 | Paikidze, Nazi | wf | GEO | 2347 | 25 | 1993 |
17 | Stock, Lara | wm | CRO | 2346 | 0 | 1992 |
18 | Nebolsina, Vera | wg | RUS | 2345 | 8 | 1989 |
19 | Nemcova, Katerina | wm | CZE | 2344 | 23 | 1990 |
20 | Majdan, Joanna | wm | POL | 2338 | 22 | 1988 |
Lists and data by courtesy of FIDE