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In September Fabiano Caruana shook and delighted the chess world. In the FIDE rating list of September 1st he had a rating of 2801, at that time his best ever, and had just joined the exclusive club of players with a 2800+ rating. Three weeks later all this is history. In a bit more than 20 days Caruana gained 42.5 elo-points and with a live rating of 2843.5 he is now number two in the world and narrowed the gap to World Champion Magnus Carlsen to just 19 points.
Live Rating List, Last updated 20 September, 17:38 GMT
| # | Name | Rating | +/- | Rapid | Blitz | Age | |
| 1 | Carlsen | 2862.8 | -7.2 | 2855.0 | 2948.0 | 23 | |
| 2 | 1 | Caruana | 2843.5 | +42.5 | 2858.0 | 2695.0 | 22 |
| 3 | 3 | Topalov | 2799.5 | +15.5 | 2772.0 | 2641.0 | 39 |
| 4 | 2 | Aronian | 2797.6 | -6.4 | 2813.0 | 2850.0 | 31 |
| 5 | 1 | Grischuk | 2796.6 | +7.6 | 2828.0 | 2724.4 | 30 |
| 6 | 1 | Anand | 2791.8 | +6.8 | 2809.0 | 2811.0 | 44 |
| 7 | 4 | Giri | 2768.1 | +10.1 | 2674.0 | 2757.0 | 20 |
| 8 | Karjakin | 2767.3 | -9.7 | 2806.0 | 2701.0 | 24 | |
| 9 | 2 | Nakamura | 2764.3 | -17.7 | 2800.0 | 2906.0 | 26 |
| 10 | 2 | Mamedyarov | 2763.7 | +7.7 | 2739.0 | 2824.0 | 29 |
| 11 | 1 | Kramnik | 2760.0 | 0.0 | 2773.0 | 2757.0 | 39 |
| 12 | 4 | Adams | 2757.6 | +5.6 | 2764.0 | 2715.0 | 42 |
| 13 | 4 | Vachier-Lagr | 2757.2 | -10.8 | 2728.0 | 2776.0 | 23 |
| 14 | So | 2755.0 | 0.0 | 2635.4 | 2726.0 | 20 | |
| 15 | 2 | Dominguez | 2750.9 | -4.1 | 2763.0 | 2728.0 | 30 |
| 16 | 1 | Gelfand | 2748.0 | 0.0 | 2719.0 | 2719.0 | 46 |
| 17 | 1 | Jakovenko | 2747.0 | 0.0 | 2726.0 | 2630.0 | 31 |
| 18 | 2 | Wojtaszek | 2742.3 | +6.3 | 2684.0 | 2743.0 | 27 |
| 19 | Vitiugov | 2738.1 | -3.9 | 2700.8 | 2711.2 | 27 | |
| 20 | 2 | Svidler | 2731.9 | -0.1 | 2799.0 | 2751.8 | 38 |
| 21 | Leko | 2730.5 | -3.5 | 2773.0 | 2682.0 | 35 | |
| 22 | 7 | Ding, Liren | 2729.5 | -24.5 | 2708.0 | 2688.0 | 21 |
| 23 | 5 | Harikrishna | 2727.0 | +2.0 | 2701.0 | 2728.0 | 28 |
| 24 | 9 | Radjabov | 2726.2 | +9.2 | 2776.0 | 2715.0 | 27 |
| 25 | 2 | Ivanchuk | 2726.0 | 0.0 | 2811.0 | 2720.0 | 45 |
| 26 | 3 | Morozevich | 2724.1 | -6.9 | 2790.8 | 2810.6 | 37 |
| 27 | 4 | Andreikin | 2722.0 | 0.0 | 2773.0 | 2716.0 | 24 |
| 28 | 7 | Rapport | 2720.2 | +7.2 | 2724.0 | 2668.0 | 18 |
| 29 | 3 | Eljanov | 2719.4 | -6.6 | 2714.0 | 2680.0 | 31 |
| 30 | 5 | Bacrot | 2718.8 | -10.2 | 2731.0 | 2739.0 | 31 |
| 31 | 1 | Navara | 2717.5 | -4.5 | 2633.0 | 2705.0 | 29 |
| 32 | 8 | Nepomniachtchi | 2713.5 | +3.5 | 2801.0 | 2880.0 | 24 |
| 33 | 4 | Fressinet | 2713.4 | +1.4 | 2713.0 | 2699.0 | 32 |
| 34 | 4 | Vallejo | 2711.0 | -1.0 | 2689.0 | 2629.0 | 32 |
| 35 | 3 | Ponomariov | 2711.0 | -6.0 | 2738.0 | 2758.0 | 30 |
| 36 | 3 | Li, Chao | 2711.0 | 0.0 | 2620.0 | 2651.0 | 25 |
| 37 | 1 | Wang, Yue | 2710.5 | -2.5 | 2765.0 | 2682.0 | 27 |
| 38 | 4 | Naiditsch | 2710.2 | -4.8 | 2698.0 | 2616.0 | 28 |
| 39 | 10 | Bu, Xiangzhi | 2710.1 | -11.9 | 2661.0 | 2634.0 | 28 |
| 40 | 2 | Kryvoruchko | 2709.9 | +1.9 | 2687.0 | 2610.0 | 27 |
| 41 | 17 | Wang, Hao | 2709.9 | -20.1 | 2719.0 | 2693.0 | 25 |
| 42 | 1 | Jobava | 2708.0 | 0.0 | 2727.0 | 2640.0 | 30 |
| 43 | Kasimdzhanov | 2706.0 | 0.0 | 2645.0 | 2641.0 | 34 | |
| 44 | Le, Quang Liem | 2706.0 | 0.0 | 2771.2 | 2828.0 | 23 | |
| 45 | 1 | Tomashevsky | 2701.0 | 0.0 | 2748.0 | 2725.0 | 27 |
Source: Live Chess Ratings, 2700chess.com
In the first PowerPlay video after his break Daniel King looks at two games of Fabiano Caruana: The first is Caruana's counterattacking brilliancy against Nikola Djukic from the Olympiad, the second is Caruana's demolition of Veselin Topalov in the sixth round of the Sinquefield Cup.
Then King turns his sight to Vishy Anand's fine performance in the Masters in Bilbao. He shows how Anand managed to win a won but complicated position against Ruslan Ponomariov through precise calculation and practical decisions.
