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Magnus Carlsen has maintained his place at the top of the world rankings, still a resounding one point ahead of Veselin Topalov, sho gained seven points in ten games to almost catch the Norwegian. Vishy Anand has gained two points, but that was not enough to overtake Vladimir Kramnik, who remains, how did we put it, a resounding one point ahead of the World Champion.
Other notable gains were achieved by Pavel Eljanov, who has gained 15 points to join the top ten for the first time ever. Pavel was recently married and has, with this new ranking, shattered the myth that matrimony immediately takes fifty points off your rating. Sergey Karjakin confirms this: he has gained 14 points and is now in place 14, all in spite of marriage last July.
Our roller coaster friend Peter Svidler has lost 15 points to descend from place eight to fifteen; and French hopeful Maxime Vachier-Lagrave lost 17 to drop to 30th place and, probably more painfully, one place behind his only national rival Etienne Bacrot. It seems like just yesterday Etienne was the wonderboy of French chess; now he is on his way to becoming the veteran whom the young Turks must overtake.
Rank | Name | Title | Nation | Rating | Games |
B-Year | 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2813 | 0 |
1990 |
2 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2812 | 10 |
1975 |
3 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2790 | 0 |
1975 |
4 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2789 | 2 |
1969 |
5 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2783 | 10 |
1982 |
6 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2763 | 4 |
1985 |
7 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2760 | 18 |
1983 |
8 | Wang, Yue | g | CHN | 2752 | 7 |
1987 |
9 | Eljanov, Pavel | g | UKR | 2751 | 20 |
1983 |
10 | Shirov, Alexei | g | ESP | 2742 | 10 |
1972 |
11 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2741 | 16 |
1968 |
12 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2741 | 10 |
1969 |
13 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2740 | 0 |
1987 |
14 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | RUS | 2739 | 7 |
1990 |
15 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2735 | 15 |
1976 |
16 | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2735 | 0 |
1979 |
17 | Gashimov, Vugar | g | AZE | 2734 | 14 |
1986 |
18 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2733 | 7 |
1983 |
19 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2733 | 4 |
1987 |
20 | Almasi, Zoltan | g | HUN | 2725 | 11 |
1976 |
21 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2725 | 10 |
1983 |
22 | Malakhov, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2722 | 12 |
1980 |
23 | Wang, Hao | g | CHN | 2722 | 10 |
1989 |
24 | Navara, David | g | CZE | 2718 | 24 |
1985 |
25 | Movsesian, Sergei | g | SVK | 2717 | 35 |
1978 |
26 | Jobava, Baadur | g | GEO | 2715 | 11 |
1983 |
27 | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2715 | 0 |
1977 |
28 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | g | CUB | 2713 | 0 |
1983 |
29 | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2710 | 25 |
1983 |
30 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | g | FRA | 2710 | 15 |
1990 |
31 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2708 | 18 |
1987 |
32 | Vitiugov, Nikita | g | RUS | 2707 | 18 |
1987 |
33 | Motylev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2704 | 21 |
1979 |
34 | Rublevsky, Sergei | g | RUS | 2704 | 9 |
1974 |
35 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | g | ESP | 2703 | 30 |
1982 |
36 | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2702 | 9 |
1974 |
37 | Alekseev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2700 | 20 |
1985 |
38 | Onischuk, Alexander | g | USA | 2699 | 9 |
1975 |
39 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | g | UZB | 2699 | 3 |
1979 |
40 | Nielsen, Peter Heine | g | DEN | 2698 | 9 |
1973 |
41 | Adams, Michael | g | ENG | 2697 | 19 |
1971 |
42 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | g | RUS | 2695 | 20 |
1990 |
43 | Akopian, Vladimir | g | ARM | 2694 | 11 |
1971 |
44 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | g | IND | 2690 | 6 |
1981 |
45 | Fressinet, Laurent | g | FRA | 2689 | 28 |
1981 |
46 | Le, Quang Liem | g | VIE | 2687 | 13 |
1991 |
47 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | g | GER | 2686 | 34 |
1985 |
48 | Short, Nigel D | g | ENG | 2685 | 9 |
1965 |
49 | Miroshnichenko, Evgenij | g | UKR | 2684 | 4 |
1978 |
50 | Polgar, Judit | g | HUN | 2682 | 0 |
1976 |
51 | Bu, Xiangzhi | g | CHN | 2681 | 3 |
1985 |
52 | Kurnosov, Igor | g | RUS | 2680 | 28 |
1985 |
53 | Efimenko, Zahar | g | UKR | 2677 | 29 |
1985 |
54 | Timofeev, Artyom | g | RUS | 2677 | 18 |
1985 |
55 | Sargissian, Gabriel | g | ARM | 2677 | 11 |
1983 |
56 | Berkes, Ferenc | g | HUN | 2676 | 19 |
1985 |
57 | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2675 | 21 |
1992 |
58 | Riazantsev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2674 | 20 |
1985 |
59 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | g | ROU | 2672 | 19 |
1976 |
60 | Ganguly, Surya Shekhar | g | IND | 2672 | 0 |
1983 |
61 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | g | RUS | 2669 | 18 |
1985 |
62 | Moiseenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2669 | 17 |
1980 |
63 | Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | g | CUB | 2668 | 27 |
1982 |
64 | Bologan, Viktor | g | MDA | 2668 | 21 |
1971 |
65 | Grachev, Boris | g | RUS | 2667 | 17 |
1986 |
66 | Ni, Hua | g | CHN | 2667 | 7 |
1983 |
67 | So, Wesley | g | PHI | 2665 | 0 |
1993 |
68 | Roiz, Michael | g | ISR | 2664 | 27 |
1983 |
69 | Volokitin, Andrei | g | UKR | 2664 | 25 |
1986 |
70 | Najer, Evgeniy | g | RUS | 2663 | 28 |
1977 |
71 | Areshchenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2663 | 22 |
1986 |
72 | Bareev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2663 | 11 |
1966 |
73 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | g | POL | 2663 | 5 |
1987 |
74 | Georgiev, Kiril | g | BUL | 2662 | 24 |
1965 |
75 | Sutovsky, Emil | g | ISR | 2661 | 11 |
1977 |
76 | Harikrishna, P. | g | IND | 2660 | 0 |
1986 |
77 | Smeets, Jan | g | NED | 2659 | 6 |
1985 |
78 | Khismatullin, Denis | g | RUS | 2657 | 18 |
1984 |
79 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | g | RUS | 2656 | 18 |
1976 |
80 | Avrukh, Boris | g | ISR | 2656 | 0 |
1978 |
81 | Dreev, Alexey | g | RUS | 2655 | 21 |
1969 |
82 | Fridman, Daniel | g | GER | 2654 | 36 |
1976 |
83 | Sokolov, Ivan | g | BIH | 2654 | 25 |
1968 |
84 | Van Wely, Loek | g | NED | 2653 | 13 |
1972 |
85 | Mamedov, Rauf | g | AZE | 2653 | 11 |
1988 |
86 | Zhou, Jianchao | g | CHN | 2652 | 4 |
1988 |
87 | Korobov, Anton | g | UKR | 2649 | 13 |
1985 |
88 | Kobalia, Mikhail | g | RUS | 2648 | 20 |
1978 |
89 | Zhigalko, Sergei | g | BLR | 2647 | 20 |
1989 |
90 | Fedorchuk, Sergey A. | g | UKR | 2646 | 13 |
1981 |
91 | Beliavsky, Alexander G | g | SLO | 2645 | 25 |
1953 |
92 | Socko, Bartosz | g | POL | 2644 | 18 |
1978 |
93 | Seirawan, Yasser | g | USA | 2644 | 3 |
1960 |
94 | Milov, Vadim | g | SUI | 2644 | 0 |
1972 |
95 | Andreikin, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2643 | 5 |
1990 |
96 | Lastin, Alexander | g | RUS | 2643 | 0 |
1976 |
97 | Giri, Anish | g | NED | 2642 | 24 |
1994 |
98 | Savchenko, Boris | g | RUS | 2642 | 17 |
1986 |
99 | Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son | g | VIE | 2642 | 0 |
1990 |
100 | Gustafsson, Jan | g | GER | 2640 | 24 |
1979 |
101 | Cheparinov, Ivan | g | BUL | 2640 | 11 |
1986 |
102 | Vuckovic, Bojan | g | SRB | 2640 | 11 |
1980 |
103 | Sandipan, Chanda | g | IND | 2640 | 2 |
1983 |
The gap between the top ranked Judit Polgar and her nearest rival, Indian GM Koneru Humpy, remains at 60 points. Chinese talent Hou Yifan has regained nineteen of the twenty points she had lost in the previous list, and remains in place three, but 29 points of the next-closest rival.
Rank | Name | Title | Nation | Rating | Games |
B-Year | 1 | Polgar, Judit | g | HUN | 2682 | 0 |
1976 |
2 | Koneru, Humpy | g | IND | 2622 | 0 |
1987 |
3 | Hou, Yifan | g | CHN | 2589 | 12 |
1994 |
4 | Stefanova, Antoaneta | g | BUL | 2560 | 16 |
1979 |
5 | Kosintseva, Nadezhda | m | RUS | 2553 | 11 |
1985 |
6 | Cramling, Pia | g | SWE | 2536 | 21 |
1963 |
7 | Kosintseva, Tatiana | g | RUS | 2534 | 11 |
1986 |
8 | Muzychuk, Anna | m | SLO | 2529 | 22 |
1990 |
9 | Lahno, Kateryna | g | UKR | 2527 | 3 |
1989 |
10 | Sebag, Marie | g | FRA | 2524 | 14 |
1986 |
11 | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | g | RUS | 2519 | 6 |
1984 |
12 | Cmilyte, Viktorija | m | LTU | 2514 | 24 |
1983 |
13 | Chiburdanidze, Maia | g | GEO | 2514 | 0 |
1961 |
14 | Pogonina, Natalija | wg | RUS | 2501 | 6 |
1985 |
15 | Ju, Wenjun | wg | CHN | 2500 | 0 |
1991 |
16 | Zhukova, Natalia | wg | UKR | 2499 | 17 |
1979 |
17 | Zhao, Xue | g | CHN | 2493 | 8 |
1985 |
18 | Harika, Dronavalli | m | IND | 2491 | 9 |
1991 |
19 | Galliamova, Alisa | m | RUS | 2487 | 0 |
1972 |
20 | Paehtz, Elisabeth | m | GER | 2485 | 30 |
1985 |
21 | Socko, Monika | g | POL | 2485 | 21 |
1978 |
22 | Xu, Yuhua | g | CHN | 2484 | 2 |
1976 |
23 | Hoang Thanh Trang | g | HUN | 2482 | 11 |
1980 |
24 | Javakhishvili, Lela | m | GEO | 2482 | 11 |
1984 |
25 | Dzagnidze, Nana | g | GEO | 2478 | 11 |
1987 |
26 | Mkrtchian, Lilit | m | ARM | 2477 | 11 |
1982 |
27 | Zhu, Chen | g | QAT | 2476 | 0 |
1976 |
28 | Ruan, Lufei | wg | CHN | 2474 | 1 |
1987 |
29 | Danielian, Elina | m | ARM | 2473 | 12 |
1978 |
30 | Zatonskih, Anna | m | USA | 2470 | 27 |
1978 |
31 | Dembo, Yelena | m | GRE | 2470 | 11 |
1983 |
32 | Ushenina, Anna | m | UKR | 2468 | 15 |
1985 |
33 | Melia, Salome | m | GEO | 2466 | 20 |
1987 |
34 | Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman | m | IND | 2466 | 0 |
1979 |
35 | Gaponenko, Inna | m | UKR | 2465 | 20 |
1976 |
36 | Skripchenko, Almira | m | FRA | 2464 | 17 |
1976 |
37 | Tan, Zhongyi | wg | CHN | 2464 | 2 |
1991 |
38 | Rajlich, Iweta | m | POL | 2460 | 22 |
1981 |
39 | Gunina, Valentina | wf | RUS | 2457 | 15 |
1989 |
40 | Polgar, Sofia | m | HUN | 2457 | 0 |
1974 |
41 | Krush, Irina | m | USA | 2455 | 23 |
1983 |
42 | Tairova, Elena | m | RUS | 2455 | 0 |
1991 |
43 | Muzychuk, Mariya | m | UKR | 2452 | 32 |
1992 |
44 | Shen, Yang | wg | CHN | 2452 | 3 |
1989 |
45 | Hunt, Harriet V | m | ENG | 2452 | 0 |
1978 |
46 | Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan | g | SCO | 2449 | 16 |
1968 |
47 | Khurtsidze, Nino | m | GEO | 2448 | 11 |
1975 |
48 | Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina | m | RUS | 2447 | 16 |
1974 |
49 | Atalik, Ekaterina | m | TUR | 2444 | 5 |
1982 |
50 | Moser, Eva | m | AUT | 2440 | 32 |
1982 |
51 | Huang, Qian | wg | CHN | 2437 | 3 |
1986 |
52 | Repkova, Eva | m | SVK | 2434 | 29 |
1975 |
53 | Zhang, Xiaowen | wg | CHN | 2426 | 4 |
1989 |
54 | Khukhashvili, Sopiko | m | GEO | 2421 | 0 |
1985 |
55 | Ovod, Evgenija | m | RUS | 2418 | 20 |
1982 |
56 | Houska, Jovanka | m | ENG | 2417 | 17 |
1980 |
57 | Peptan, Corina-Isabela | m | ROU | 2416 | 9 |
1978 |
58 | Zawadzka, Jolanta | wg | POL | 2415 | 11 |
1987 |
59 | Munguntuul, Batkhuyag | m | MGL | 2413 | 13 |
1987 |
60 | Savina, Anastasia | wg | RUS | 2412 | 15 |
1992 |
61 | Romanko, Marina | m | RUS | 2411 | 17 |
1986 |
62 | Khotenashvili, Bela | m | GEO | 2410 | 20 |
1988 |
63 | Bodnaruk, Anastasia | wg | RUS | 2410 | 15 |
1992 |
64 | Cori T., Deysi | wm | PER | 2409 | 27 |
1993 |
65 | Matnadze, Ana | m | GEO | 2409 | 10 |
1983 |
66 | Galojan, Lilit | wg | ARM | 2402 | 11 |
1983 |
67 | Jackova, Jana | m | CZE | 2402 | 2 |
1982 |
68 | Tsereteli, Tamar | wg | GEO | 2402 | 0 |
1985 |
69 | Foisor, Cristina-Adela | m | ROU | 2401 | 21 |
1967 |
70 | Stockova, Zuzana | m | SVK | 2400 | 18 |
1977 |
71 | Vasilevich, Tatjana | m | UKR | 2399 | 23 |
1977 |
72 | Tania, Sachdev | m | IND | 2398 | 9 |
1986 |
73 | Peng, Zhaoqin | g | NED | 2397 | 13 |
1968 |
74 | Turova, Irina | m | RUS | 2394 | 9 |
1979 |
75 | Michna, Marta | wg | GER | 2393 | 18 |
1978 |
76 | Madl, Ildiko | m | HUN | 2393 | 17 |
1969 |
77 | Zaiatz, Elena | m | RUS | 2392 | 11 |
1969 |
78 | Pokorna, Regina | wg | SVK | 2388 | 8 |
1982 |
79 | Maric, Alisa | m | SRB | 2387 | 0 |
1970 |
80 | Gara, Anita | m | HUN | 2385 | 11 |
1983 |
81 | Zdebskaja, Natalia | wg | UKR | 2383 | 11 |
1986 |
82 | Molchanova, Tatjana | wm | RUS | 2381 | 16 |
1980 |
83 | Alexandrova, Olga | m | ESP | 2381 | 11 |
1978 |
84 | Matveeva, Svetlana | m | RUS | 2379 | 16 |
1969 |
85 | Milliet, Sophie | m | FRA | 2378 | 23 |
1983 |
86 | Karavade, Eesha | wg | IND | 2377 | 9 |
1987 |
87 | Stepovaia, Tatiana | wg | RUS | 2375 | 0 |
1965 |
88 | Kononenko, Tatiana | m | UKR | 2374 | 11 |
1978 |
89 | Shadrina, Tatiana | wg | RUS | 2374 | 2 |
1974 |
90 | Cosma, Elena-Luminita | wg | ROU | 2370 | 20 |
1972 |
91 | Lomineishvili, Maia | m | GEO | 2370 | 11 |
1977 |
92 | Bojkovic, Natasa | m | SRB | 2368 | 11 |
1971 |
93 | Kovanova, Baira | wg | RUS | 2366 | 15 |
1987 |
94 | Goletiani, Rusudan | m | USA | 2366 | 0 |
1980 |
95 | Lanchava, Tea | m | NED | 2364 | 1 |
1974 |
96 | Vajda, Szidonia | m | HUN | 2363 | 17 |
1979 |
97 | Gvetadze, Sopio | m | GEO | 2363 | 11 |
1983 |
98 | Fierro Baquero, Martha L. | m | ECU | 2363 | 9 |
1977 |
99 | Kulovana, Eva | wg | CZE | 2362 | 22 |
1987 |
100 | Gu, Xiaobing | wg | CHN | 2361 | 2 |
1985 |
Naturally Magnus remains at the top of this list, but with is ten-month older main rival Sergey Karjakin closing the gap – which however still remains a daunting 74 points. Junior Hou Yifan is still out of the list, which remains an all-male affair.
Rank | Name | Title | Nation | Rating | Games |
B-Year |
1 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2813 | 0 | 1990 |
2 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | RUS | 2739 | 7 | 1990 |
3 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | g | FRA | 2710 | 15 | 1990 |
4 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | g | RUS | 2695 | 20 | 1990 |
5 | Le, Quang Liem | g | VIE | 2687 | 13 | 1991 |
6 | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2675 | 21 | 1992 |
7 | So, Wesley | g | PHI | 2665 | 0 | 1993 |
8 | Andreikin, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2643 | 5 | 1990 |
9 | Giri, Anish | g | NED | 2642 | 24 | 1994 |
10 | Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son | g | VIE | 2642 | 0 | 1990 |
11 | Negi, Parimarjan | g | IND | 2636 | 7 | 1993 |
12 | Kuzubov, Yuriy | g | UKR | 2628 | 23 | 1990 |
13 | Howell, David W L | g | ENG | 2620 | 18 | 1990 |
14 | Khairullin, Ildar | g | RUS | 2617 | 19 | 1990 |
15 | Kovalyov, Anton | g | ARG | 2615 | 9 | 1992 |
16 | Edouard, Romain | g | FRA | 2611 | 30 | 1990 |
17 | Sjugirov, Sanan | g | RUS | 2610 | 20 | 1993 |
18 | Safarli, Eltaj | g | AZE | 2610 | 11 | 1992 |
19 | Hammer, Jon Ludvig | g | NOR | 2610 | 7 | 1990 |
20 | Salgado Lopez, Ivan | g | ESP | 2606 | 11 | 1991 |
There she is, Hou Yifan, sixty points ahead of her nearest rival Anna Muzychuk, with Chinese WGM Ju Wenjun and India's Harika Dronavalli following up as in the previous list.
Rank | Name | Title | Nation | Rating | Games |
B-Year |
1 | Hou, Yifan | g | CHN | 2589 | 12 | 1994 |
2 | Muzychuk, Anna | m | SLO | 2529 | 22 | 1990 |
3 | Ju, Wenjun | wg | CHN | 2500 | 0 | 1991 |
4 | Harika, Dronavalli | m | IND | 2491 | 9 | 1991 |
5 | Tan, Zhongyi | wg | CHN | 2464 | 2 | 1991 |
6 | Tairova, Elena | m | RUS | 2455 | 0 | 1991 |
7 | Muzychuk, Mariya | m | UKR | 2452 | 32 | 1992 |
8 | Savina, Anastasia | wg | RUS | 2412 | 15 | 1992 |
9 | Bodnaruk, Anastasia | wg | RUS | 2410 | 15 | 1992 |
10 | Cori T., Deysi | wm | PER | 2409 | 27 | 1993 |
11 | Girya, Olga | wg | RUS | 2353 | 15 | 1991 |
12 | Pustovoitova, Daria | RUS | 2352 | 9 | 1994 | |
13 | Kashlinskaya, Alina | wg | RUS | 2346 | 10 | 1993 |
14 | Ding, Yixin | wf | CHN | 2327 | 3 | 1991 |
15 | Severiukhina, Zoja | wm | RUS | 2321 | 11 | 1990 |
16 | Padmini, Rout | wm | IND | 2319 | 0 | 1994 |
17 | Paikidze, Nazi | wm | GEO | 2317 | 27 | 1993 |
18 | Muminova, Nafisa | wm | UZB | 2311 | 18 | 1990 |
19 | Ohme, Melanie | wm | GER | 2309 | 20 | 1990 |
20 | Rakic, Marija | wm | SRB | 2306 | 0 | 1990 |
Lists and data by courtesy of FIDE