December 2014 ratings: A few more historic marks

by Albert Silver
12/2/2014 – It was a remarkable month and not merely because of the amount of top level chess. Although nearly everything was overshadowed by the World Championship, new historic marks were set. Alexander Grischuk had the best result of his career and rocketed to 2810, while Samuel Sevian became the youngest GM in US history. Not least is Wei Yi who is now in the Top 100 at age 15.

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November was a busy month for the elite as the vast majority of the top thirty players were playing in some event or other. Among the most noteworthy were the Petrosian Memorial with a fantastic result by Alexander Grischuk, or the FIDE Grand Prix in Tashkent won by Dmitry Andreikin, both of whom scored the greatest wins of their careers. That said, unfortunately for these great events, they were quite overshadowed by the epic rematch between Magnus Carlsen and Vishy Anand for the world title.

All the King's horses and all the King's men could not take away the chess world's attention
from the World Championship

In spite of this, the number one attraction at the top is Grischuk's epic climb past the 2800 mark,
taking him to 2810 and clear world number three. This was very much thanks to his win at the
Petrosian Memorial, the greatest victory of his career, ahead of Kramnik and Aronian no less.

Rk
Name
Ti.
Fed
Rtg
Gms
B-Year
1 Carlsen, Magnus
g
NOR
2862
11
1990
2 Caruana, Fabiano
g
ITA
2829
11
1992
3 Grischuk, Alexander
g
RUS
2810
7
1983
4 Topalov, Veselin
g
BUL
2800
0
1975
5 Aronian, Levon
g
ARM
2797
7
1982
6 Anand, Viswanathan
g
IND
2793
11
1969
7 Nakamura, Hikaru
g
USA
2775
11
1987
8 Karjakin, Sergey
g
RUS
2773
11
1990
9 Kramnik, Vladimir
g
RUS
2769
7
1975
10 Giri, Anish
g
NED
2768
11
1994
11 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
g
AZE
2765
11
1985
12 So, Wesley
g
USA
2762
0
1993
13 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime
g
FRA
2758
13
1990
14 Adams, Michael
g
ENG
2745
0
1971
15 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw
g
POL
2744
0
1987
16 Gelfand, Boris
g
ISR
2743
18
1968
17 Svidler, Peter
g
RUS
2743
0
1976
18 Vitiugov, Nikita
g
RUS
2738
0
1987
19 Andreikin, Dmitry
g
RUS
2737
11
1990
20 Radjabov, Teimour
g
AZE
2734
11
1987
21 Jobava, Baadur
g
GEO
2733
11
1983
22 Jakovenko, Dmitry
g
RUS
2732
19
1983
23 Ding, Liren
g
CHN
2732
7
1992
24 Naiditsch, Arkadij
g
GER
2731
3
1985
25 Li, Chao b
g
CHN
2730
16
1989
26 Harikrishna, P.
g
IND
2727
2
1986
27 Navara, David
g
CZE
2727
0
1985
28 Eljanov, Pavel
g
UKR
2726
13
1983
29 Dominguez Perez, Leinier
g
CUB
2726
0
1983
30 Leko, Peter
g
HUN
2723
7
1979
31 Wang, Yue
g
CHN
2720
4
1987
32 Bacrot, Etienne
g
FRA
2718
3
1983
33 Rapport, Richard
g
HUN
2716
6
1996
34 Ivanchuk, Vassily
g
UKR
2715
11
1969
35 Nepomniachtchi, Ian
g
RUS
2714
0
1990
36 Tomashevsky, Evgeny
g
RUS
2714
0
1987
37 Ponomariov, Ruslan
g
UKR
2713
11
1983
38 Morozevich, Alexander
g
RUS
2712
7
1977
39 Wang, Hao
g
CHN
2710
0
1989
40 Malakhov, Vladimir
g
RUS
2708
0
1980
41 Fressinet, Laurent
g
FRA
2706
0
1981
42 Vallejo Pons, Francisco
g
ESP
2705
3
1982
43 Yu, Yangyi
g
CHN
2705
0
1994
44 Almasi, Zoltan
g
HUN
2704
2
1976
45 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam
g
UZB
2703
14
1979
46 Rublevsky, Sergei
g
RUS
2698
0
1974
47 Matlakov, Maxim
g
RUS
2695
17
1991
48 Moiseenko, Alexander
g
UKR
2694
13
1980
49 Bu, Xiangzhi
g
CHN
2691
11
1985
50 Kryvoruchko, Yuriy
g
UKR
2688
11
1986
51 Korobov, Anton
g
UKR
2687
11
1985
52 Sargissian, Gabriel
g
ARM
2687
0
1983
53 Lysyj, Igor
g
RUS
2686
0
1987
54 Riazantsev, Alexander
g
RUS
2684
9
1985
55 Cheparinov, Ivan
g
BUL
2684
0
1986
56 Ni, Hua
g
CHN
2683
4
1983
57 Sasikiran, Krishnan
g
IND
2682
0
1981
58 Kuzubov, Yuriy
g
UKR
2681
11
1990
59 Kamsky, Gata
g
USA
2681
3
1974
60 Inarkiev, Ernesto
g
RUS
2680
7
1985
61 Motylev, Alexander
g
RUS
2680
0
1979
62 Saric, Ivan
g
CRO
2679
2
1990
63 Alekseev, Evgeny
g
RUS
2679
1
1985
64 Melkumyan, Hrant
g
ARM
2678
11
1989
65 Le, Quang Liem
g
VIE
2678
0
1991
66 Tiviakov, Sergei
g
NED
2677
0
1973
67 Rodshtein, Maxim
g
ISR
2676
3
1989
68 Shirov, Alexei
g
LAT
2675
6
1972
69 Polgar, Judit
g
HUN
2675
0
1976
70 Laznicka, Viktor
g
CZE
2673
2
1988
71 Hou, Yifan
g
CHN
2673
0
1994
72 McShane, Luke J
g
ENG
2672
2
1984
73 Zhigalko, Sergei
g
BLR
2672
0
1989
74 Howell, David W L
g
ENG
2670
2
1990
75 Fedorchuk, Sergey A.
g
UKR
2669
9
1981
76 Berkes, Ferenc
g
HUN
2669
0
1985
77 Grachev, Boris
g
RUS
2669
0
1986
78 Negi, Parimarjan
g
IND
2669
0
1993
79 Khismatullin, Denis
g
RUS
2668
15
1984
80 Wei, Yi
g
CHN
2668
15
1999
81 Bruzon Batista, Lazaro
g
CUB
2668
0
1982
82 Van Wely, Loek
g
NED
2667
2
1972
83 Sjugirov, Sanan
g
RUS
2666
11
1993
84 Onischuk, Alexander
g
USA
2665
0
1975
85 Bartel, Mateusz
g
POL
2664
2
1985
86 Artemiev, Vladislav
g
RUS
2662
13
1998
87 Areshchenko, Alexander
g
UKR
2661
11
1986
88 Fedoseev, Vladimir
g
RUS
2661
0
1995
89 Jones, Gawain C B
g
ENG
2661
0
1987
90 Short, Nigel D
g
ENG
2661
0
1965
91 Edouard, Romain
g
FRA
2659
5
1990
92 Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son
g
VIE
2659
0
1990
93 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter
g
GER
2658
21
1976
94 Mamedov, Rauf
g
AZE
2658
9
1988
95 Movsesian, Sergei
g
ARM
2658
3
1978
96 Sadler, Matthew D
g
ENG
2658
2
1974
97 Balogh, Csaba
g
HUN
2658
0
1987
98 Gharamian, Tigran
g
FRA
2658
0
1984
99 Akopian, Vladimir
g
ARM
2657
0
1971
100 Baklan, Vladimir
g
UKR
2655
9
1978
101 Zvjaginsev, Vadim
g
RUS
2655
0
1976

Top climbers and descenders

Alexander Grischuk was not the only big winner at the top, and Dmitry Andreikin also scored
the greatest win of his career when he took clear first at the FIDE Grand Prix at Tashkent.  
It was good for 20 Elo and a spot in the Top 20.

Rk
Old
Name
Fed
Ti.
Rating
Old
Gms
2
2
Caruana, Fabiano
ITA
GM
2829 -10
2839
11
3
5
Grischuk, Alexander
RUS
GM
2810 +15
2795
7
16
12
Gelfand, Boris
ISR
GM
2743 -16
2759
18
19
33
Andreikin, Dmitry
RUS
GM
2737 +20
2717
11
21
28
Jobava, Baadur
GEO
GM
2733 +11
2722
11
22
16
Jakovenko, Dmitry
RUS
GM
2732 -13
2745
19
23
22
Ding, Liren
CHN
GM
2732 +2
2730
7
24
30
Naiditsch, Arkadij
GER
GM
2731 +12
2719
3
34
25
Ivanchuk, Vassily
UKR
GM
2715 -11
2726
11
38
27
Morozevich, Alexander
RUS
GM
2712 -12
2724
7
47
53
Matlakov, Maxim
RUS
GM
2695 +10
2685
17
49
43
Bu, Xiangzhi
CHN
GM
2691 -16
2707
11
50
45
Kryvoruchko, Yuriy
UKR
GM
2688 -18
2706
11
58
86
Kuzubov, Yuriy
UKR
GM
2681 +20
2661
11
79
62
Khismatullin, Denis
RUS
GM
2668 -11
2679
15

FIDE Top Women

There werent many big swings in the Women's Top 100 to threaten the balance of power.

Rk
Name
Ti.
Fed
Rtg
Gms
B-Year
1 Polgar, Judit
g
HUN
2675
0
1976
2 Hou, Yifan
g
CHN
2673
0
1994
3 Koneru, Humpy
g
IND
2581
0
1987
4 Dzagnidze, Nana
g
GEO
2570
0
1987
5 Ju, Wenjun
g
CHN
2568
11
1991
6 Muzychuk, Anna
g
UKR
2544
8
1990
7 Kosteniuk, Alexandra
g
RUS
2541
0
1984
8 Lagno, Kateryna
g
RUS
2530
0
1989
9 Cmilyte, Viktorija
g
LTU
2525
0
1983
10 Gunina, Valentina
g
RUS
2522
0
1989
11 Muzychuk, Mariya
m
UKR
2520
8
1992
12 Cramling, Pia
g
SWE
2518
3
1963
13 Stefanova, Antoaneta
g
BUL
2517
0
1979
14 Zhao, Xue
g
CHN
2514
0
1985
15 Harika, Dronavalli
g
IND
2505
0
1991
16 Khotenashvili, Bela
g
GEO
2504
0
1988
17 Javakhishvili, Lela
m
GEO
2493
7
1984
18 Ruan, Lufei
wg
CHN
2491
0
1987
19 Kosintseva, Nadezhda
g
RUS
2489
14
1985
20 Danielian, Elina
g
ARM
2487
0
1978
21 Ushenina, Anna
g
UKR
2486
1
1985
22 Paehtz, Elisabeth
m
GER
2485
11
1985
23 Kosintseva, Tatiana
g
RUS
2483
0
1986
24 Sebag, Marie
g
FRA
2482
0
1986
25 Hoang, Thanh Trang
g
HUN
2480
0
1980
26 Pogonina, Natalija
wg
RUS
2480
0
1985
27 Shen, Yang
m
CHN
2475
0
1989
28 Melia, Salome
m
GEO
2473
0
1987
29 Zhukova, Natalia
g
UKR
2472
8
1979
30 Zatonskih, Anna
m
USA
2472
1
1978
31 Galliamova, Alisa
m
RUS
2471
0
1972
32 Socko, Monika
g
POL
2470
0
1978
33 Tan, Zhongyi
wg
CHN
2465
0
1991
34 Huang, Qian
wg
CHN
2464
0
1986
35 Guo, Qi
m
CHN
2458
0
1995
36 Girya, Olga
wg
RUS
2457
6
1991
37 Krush, Irina
g
USA
2453
0
1983
38 Moser, Eva
m
AUT
2452
1
1982
39 Khurtsidze, Nino
m
GEO
2451
0
1975
40 Mkrtchian, Lilit
m
ARM
2450
0
1982
41 Zhu, Chen
g
QAT
2447
0
1976
42 Batsiashvili, Nino
m
GEO
2442
0
1987
43 Goryachkina, Aleksandra
wg
RUS
2441
12
1998
44 Ding, Yixin
wg
CHN
2440
0
1991
45 Kashlinskaya, Alina
m
RUS
2439
0
1993
46 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina
m
RUS
2439
0
1974
47 Hunt, Harriet V
m
ENG
2438
0
1978
48 Munguntuul, Batkhuyag
m
MGL
2438
0
1987
49 Alexandrova, Olga
m
ESP
2432
0
1978
50 Ziaziulkina, Nastassia
m
BLR
2427
0
1995
51 Osmak, Iulija
wf
UKR
2426
18
1998
52 Peptan, Corina-Isabela
m
ROU
2425
7
1978
53 Cori T., Deysi
wg
PER
2425
0
1993
54 Lei, Tingjie
wg
CHN
2421
10
1997
55 Saduakassova, Dinara
wg
KAZ
2421
0
1996
56 Skripchenko, Almira
m
FRA
2421
0
1976
57 Turova, Irina
m
RUS
2421
0
1979
58 Zawadzka, Jolanta
wg
POL
2419
0
1987
59 Atalik, Ekaterina
m
TUR
2417
7
1982
60 Bodnaruk, Anastasia
m
RUS
2416
6
1992
61 Matnadze, Ana
m
ESP
2411
0
1983
62 Rajlich, Iweta
m
POL
2407
0
1981
63 Sukandar, Irine Kharisma
m
INA
2407
0
1992
64 Kovanova, Baira
wg
RUS
2405
3
1987
65 Majdan-Gajewska, Joanna
wg
POL
2405
0
1988
66 Vega Gutierrez, Sabrina
m
ESP
2405
0
1987
67 Bojkovic, Natasa
m
SRB
2404
0
1971
68 Tania, Sachdev
m
IND
2404
0
1986
69 L'Ami, Alina
m
ROU
2400
7
1985
70 Szczepkowska-Horowska, Karina
wg
POL
2398
0
1987
71 Savina, Anastasia
m
RUS
2397
0
1992
72 Zaiatz, Elena
m
RUS
2396
0
1969
73 Foisor, Cristina-Adela
m
ROU
2394
7
1967
74 Batchimeg, Tuvshintugs
m
MGL
2394
0
1986
75 Bulmaga, Irina
m
ROU
2392
7
1993
76 Peng, Zhaoqin
g
NED
2392
2
1968
77 Karavade, Eesha
m
IND
2392
0
1987
78 Aulia, Medina Warda
wg
INA
2391
0
1997
79 Padmini, Rout
wg
IND
2388
11
1994
80 Houska, Jovanka
m
ENG
2388
5
1980
81 Guramishvili, Sopiko
m
GEO
2388
0
1991
82 Milliet, Sophie
m
FRA
2387
2
1983
83 Gaponenko, Inna
m
UKR
2382
8
1976
84 Stockova, Zuzana
m
SVK
2380
0
1977
85 Videnova, Iva
wg
BUL
2379
7
1987
86 Khademalsharieh, Sarasadat
wg
IRI
2378
0
1997
87 Nakhbayeva, Guliskhan
wg
KAZ
2378
0
1991
88 Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan
g
SCO
2377
0
1968
89 Daulyte, Deimante
m
LTU
2376
8
1989
90 Guseva, Marina
m
RUS
2375
0
1986
91 Charochkina, Daria
wg
RUS
2370
9
1990
92 Guichard, Pauline
wg
FRA
2369
0
1988
93 Wang, Jue
wg
CHN
2367
11
1995
94 Rodriguez Rueda, Paula Andrea
wm
COL
2367
9
1996
95 Arabidze, Meri
m
GEO
2366
9
1994
96 Bartel, Marta
wg
POL
2366
0
1988
97 Lomineishvili, Maia
m
GEO
2364
0
1977
98 Theissl Pokorna, Regina
wg
SVK
2361
0
1982
99 Haast, Anne
wm
NED
2360
2
1993
100 Zozulia, Anna
m
BEL
2358
0
1980

FIDE Top Juniors

Without a doubt, the two biggest names of this month are Wei Yi and Samuel Sevian. Both have been courting history for some time, and both have been coming up short by just that little bit, but not anymore.

Still fifteen years old, Chinese player Wei Yi, becomes the fourth youngest player since the
inception of FIDE ratings to enter the Top 100 list. The youngest is Judit Polgar at age twelve,
next comes Teimour Radjabov at age fourteen, then comes Sergey Karjakin at age fifteen,
and finally Wei Yi, just a tad older. In the picture above, Wei Yi beat Paco Vallejo in the rapid
finals at Leon
.

No less remarkable is IM Samuel Sevian, who became the youngest US grandmaster in
history at age 13 years, 10 months and 27 days, when he broke Hikaru Nakamura's previous
record. Above is an image from the history-making game.

Rk
Name
Ti.
Fed
Rtg
Gms
B-Year
1 Giri, Anish
g
NED
2768
11
1994
2 Rapport, Richard
g
HUN
2716
6
1996
3 Yu, Yangyi
g
CHN
2705
0
1994
4 Hou, Yifan
g
CHN
2673
0
1994
5 Wei, Yi
g
CHN
2668
15
1999
6 Artemiev, Vladislav
g
RUS
2662
13
1998
7 Fedoseev, Vladimir
g
RUS
2661
0
1995
8 Robson, Ray
g
USA
2651
0
1994
9 Dubov, Daniil
g
RUS
2629
0
1996
10 Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi
g
IND
2625
0
1994
11 Bukavshin, Ivan
g
RUS
2622
11
1995
12 Naroditsky, Daniel
g
USA
2620
0
1995
13 Swiercz, Dariusz
g
POL
2616
2
1994
14 Nyzhnyk, Illya
g
UKR
2616
0
1996
15 Cori, Jorge
g
PER
2609
0
1995
16 Anton Guijarro, David
g
ESP
2608
2
1995
17 Van Kampen, Robin
g
NED
2606
6
1994
18 Duda, Jan-Krzysztof
g
POL
2603
3
1998
19 Grigoryan, Karen H.
g
ARM
2586
0
1995
20 Stukopin, Andrey
g
RUS
2583
18
1994
21 Lu, Shanglei
g
CHN
2578
4
1995
22 Lagarde, Maxime
g
FRA
2576
9
1994
23 Bok, Benjamin
g
NED
2572
5
1995
24 Gabuzyan, Hovhannes
g
ARM
2565
0
1995
25 Bluebaum, Matthias
m
GER
2560
11
1997
26 Bernadskiy, Vitaliy
g
UKR
2556
0
1994
27 Indjic, Aleksandar
g
SRB
2551
7
1995
28 Vaibhav, Suri
g
IND
2551
0
1997
29 Dragun, Kamil
g
POL
2547
0
1995
30 Oparin, Grigoriy
g
RUS
2543
0
1997
31 Troff, Kayden W
g
USA
2541
9
1998
32 Kovalev, Vladislav
g
BLR
2539
9
1994
33 Bortnyk, Olexandr
m
UKR
2533
0
1996
34 Predke, Alexandr
 
RUS
2529
8
1994
35 Forcen Esteban, Daniel
m
ESP
2526
0
1994
36 Donchenko, Alexander
m
GER
2523
2
1998
37 Antipov, Mikhail Al.
g
RUS
2520
0
1997
38 Eliseev, Urii
g
RUS
2518
0
1996
39 Ghosh, Diptayan
m
IND
2516
0
1998
40 Boruchovsky, Avital
g
ISR
2513
0
1997
41 Sevian, Samuel
m
USA
2511
9
2000
42 Aghasaryan, Robert
g
ARM
2511
0
1994
43 Ringoir, Tanguy
m
BEL
2511
0
1994
44 Abasov, Nijat
g
AZE
2509
0
1995
45 Oliva Castaneda, Kevel
m
CUB
2509
0
1994
46 Svane, Rasmus
m
GER
2507
2
1997
47 Grover, Sahaj
g
IND
2505
0
1995
48 Mammadov, Zaur
m
AZE
2505
0
1994
49 Vakhidov, Jahongir
g
UZB
2502
0
1995
50 Alekseenko, Kirill
f
RUS
2499
0
1997
51 Kadric, Denis
m
BIH
2498
14
1995
52 Karthikeyan, Murali
m
IND
2497
0
1999
53 Idani, Pouya
m
IRI
2496
0
1995
54 Ankit, R. Rajpara
g
IND
2494
0
1994
55 Bajarani, Ulvi
g
AZE
2494
0
1995
56 Chigaev, Maksim
m
RUS
2494
0
1996
57 Santos Latasa, Jaime
m
ESP
2494
0
1996
58 Andersen, Mads
m
DEN
2493
0
1995
59 Sadzikowski, Daniel
m
POL
2492
8
1994
60 Chandra, Akshat
m
USA
2489
0
1999
61 Wagner, Dennis
m
GER
2488
11
1997
62 Ducarmon, Quinten
m
NED
2488
3
1994
63 Moiseenko, Vadim
m
RUS
2487
2
1994
64 Xiong, Jeffery
m
USA
2485
13
2000
65 Tari, Aryan
m
NOR
2485
5
1999
66 Pichot, Alan
m
ARG
2481
18
1998
67 Atabayev, Maksat
m
TKM
2480
0
1994
68 Gordievsky, Dmitry
f
RUS
2479
9
1996
69 Zhou, Yang-Fan
m
ENG
2477
2
1994
70 Aravindh,Chithambaram VR.
m
IND
2476
9
1999
71 Rambaldi, Francesco
f
ITA
2476
9
1999
72 Drozdowski, Kacper
m
POL
2472
12
1996
73 Henriquez Villagra, Cristobal
m
CHI
2471
0
1996
74 Yuffa, Daniil
m
RUS
2469
8
1997
75 Van Foreest, Jorden
m
NED
2467
14
1999
76 Quesada Perez, Luis Ernesto
f
CUB
2466
0
1999
77 Georgiadis, Nico
m
SUI
2465
1
1996
78 Yang, Darwin
m
USA
2465
0
1996
79 Barbot, Pierre
f
FRA
2463
9
1995
80 Narayanan, Srinath
m
IND
2461
0
1994
81 Mokshanov, Alexey
m
RUS
2460
0
1995
82 Ma, Zhonghan
m
CHN
2459
11
1995
83 Nenezic, Marko
m
SRB
2459
0
1995
84 Guo, Qi
m
CHN
2458
0
1995
85 Tran, Tuan Minh
m
VIE
2455
20
1997
86 Mons, Leon
m
GER
2454
16
1995
87 Fernandez, Daniel Howard
m
SIN
2454
0
1995
88 Pardo Simon, David
m
ESP
2454
0
1995
89 Zajic, Milan
m
SRB
2454
0
1999
90 Lampert, Jonas
m
GER
2453
10
1997
91 Meskovs, Nikita
f
LAT
2452
7
1994
92 Ebeling, Daniel
m
FIN
2452
0
1996
93 Sanal, Vahap
m
TUR
2452
0
1998
94 Liu, Yan
f
CHN
2451
11
2000
95 Gledura, Benjamin
m
HUN
2450
16
1999
96 Martinez Alcantara, Jose Eduardo
f
PER
2448
0
1999
97 Kantans, Toms
m
LAT
2447
13
1994
98 Steinberg, Nitzan
m
ISR
2445
0
1998
99 Bai, Jinshi
m
CHN
2444
11
1999
100 Das, Sayantan
m
IND
2444
0
1997

FIDE Top Girls

Allow us to properly present 14-year-old Stavroula Tsolakidou, standing on the no.2, whose
climb in the past year or so has been utterly amazing. It is not just that she has earned over
300 Elo in the past year or so, but that she won the World U14 Girls title in 2013, and in 2014
when she opted to play in the tougher Girls U16, she came in clear second. With that kind of
fighting spirit, there is no reason she cannot eye the GM title before she is 18.

Rk
Name
Ti.
Fed
Rtg
Gms
B-Year
1 Hou, Yifan
g
CHN
2673
0
1994
2 Guo, Qi
m
CHN
2458
0
1995
3 Goryachkina, Aleksandra
wg
RUS
2441
12
1998
4 Ziaziulkina, Nastassia
m
BLR
2427
0
1995
5 Osmak, Iulija
wf
UKR
2426
18
1998
6 Lei, Tingjie
wg
CHN
2421
10
1997
7 Saduakassova, Dinara
wg
KAZ
2421
0
1996
8 Aulia, Medina Warda
wg
INA
2391
0
1997
9 Padmini, Rout
wg
IND
2388
11
1994
10 Khademalsharieh, Sarasadat
wg
IRI
2378
0
1997
11 Wang, Jue
wg
CHN
2367
11
1995
12 Rodriguez Rueda, Paula Andrea
wm
COL
2367
9
1996
13 Arabidze, Meri
m
GEO
2366
9
1994
14 Bivol, Alina
wm
RUS
2355
0
1996
15 Aranaz Murillo, Amalia
wm
ESP
2344
0
1995
16 Pustovoitova, Daria
f
RUS
2334
0
1994
17 Abdumalik, Zhansaya
wg
KAZ
2332
0
2000
18 Zhai, Mo
wm
CHN
2325
0
1996
19 Shvayger, Yuliya
wm
ISR
2323
0
1994
20 Mammadzada, Gunay
wm
AZE
2316
0
2000
21 Schut, Lisa
wm
NED
2302
1
1994
22 Osmanodja, Filiz
wm
GER
2295
9
1996
23 Iwanow, Anna
wm
POL
2290
9
1995
24 Tsolakidou, Stavroula
wf
GRE
2290
0
2000
25 Nomin-Erdene, Davaademberel
wf
MGL
2288
10
2000
26 Baciu, Diana
wm
MDA
2280
0
1994
27 Ibrahimova, Sabina
wm
AZE
2273
0
1995
28 Chumpitaz, Ann
wm
PER
2266
0
1994
29 Tantsiura, Maria
wm
UKR
2262
8
1996
30 Ni, Shiqun
wm
CHN
2262
0
1997
31 Yuan, Yuanling
wm
CAN
2262
0
1994
32 Enkhtuul, Altan-Ulzii
wg
MGL
2258
9
1994
33 Khlichkova, Tatiana
wf
RUS
2257
0
1994
34 Brunello, Marina
f
ITA
2254
0
1994
35 Fataliyeva, Ulviyya
wm
AZE
2252
0
1996
36 Ivana Maria, Furtado
wm
IND
2251
11
1999
37 Imnadze, Nato
wf
GEO
2251
9
1996
38 Danelia, Mariam
wm
GEO
2250
13
1994
39 Unuk, Laura
wm
SLO
2249
5
1999
40 Nguyen, Thi Mai Hung
wg
VIE
2248
0
1994
41 Xiao, Yiyi
wf
CHN
2248
0
1996
42 Marjanovics, Annamaria
wf
HUN
2247
16
2001
43 Efroimski, Marsel
wm
ISR
2246
0
1995
44 Foisor, Mihaela-Veronica
wm
ROU
2245
2
1994
45 Dordzhieva, Dinara
wm
RUS
2244
0
1999
46 Klek, Hanna-Marie
 
GER
2241
10
1995
47 Avramidou, Anastasia
wf
GRE
2237
0
2000
48 Severina, Maria
wm
RUS
2233
0
1995
49 Bykova, Anastasia
wf
RUS
2231
0
1997
50 Sihite, Chelsie Monica Ignesias
wm
INA
2224
0
1995
51 Hakimifard, Ghazal
wm
IRI
2223
0
1994
52 Styazhkina, Anna
wm
RUS
2220
0
1997
53 Drogovoz, Irina
 
RUS
2218
15
1999
54 Havanecz, Bianka
 
HUN
2218
0
1994
55 Hojjatova, Aydan
wc
AZE
2217
0
1999
56 Abdusattorova, Bakhora
wf
UZB
2216
0
1999
57 Monica, Putri Wigustira
wf
INA
2213
0
1997
58 Tomashevskaya, Lidia
wm
RUS
2210
0
1995
59 Narva, Mai
wc
EST
2209
0
1999
60 Lach, Aleksandra
wf
POL
2208
0
1995
61 Yao, Lan
 
CHN
2207
0
2000
62 Navrotescu, Andreea-Cristiana
wf
FRA
2206
0
1996
63 Petrukhina, Irina
wf
RUS
2203
0
1994
64 Santeramo, Alessia
wf
ITA
2203
0
1998
65 Szente Varga, Fruzsina
 
HUN
2202
7
1996
66 Nicolas Zapata, Irene
wm
ESP
2202
0
1997
67 Camacho, Chardine Cheradee
wm
PHI
2199
14
1994
68 Khusnutdinova, Alsu
wf
RUS
2198
0
1998
69 Makarenko, Alexandra
wf
RUS
2197
5
1996
70 Ivanova, Karina
wf
RUS
2194
0
1996
71 Pratyusha, Bodda
 
IND
2192
11
1997
72 Suliati, Annisa
wf
INA
2192
0
1999
73 Derakhshani, Dorsa
wf
IRI
2188
9
1998
74 Wisniowska, Klaudia
wf
POL
2187
0
1995
75 Haussernot, Cecile
wf
FRA
2186
9
1998
76 Yu, Jennifer R
wf
USA
2186
0
2002
77 Kurbonboeva, Sarvinoz
wm
UZB
2185
0
1994
78 Marikova, Jana
 
CZE
2185
0
1996
79 Rodionova, Polina
wf
RUS
2184
0
1997
80 Gu, Tianlu
wm
CHN
2182
0
1997
81 Tokhirjonova, Gulrukhbegim
wf
UZB
2181
0
1999
82 Asgarizadeh, Minoo
wf
IRI
2177
0
1994
83 Nandhidhaa, PV
 
IND
2177
0
1996
84 Rodionova, Daria
wf
RUS
2175
8
1998
85 Heinemann, Josefine
 
GER
2172
1
1998
86 Retno, Wijayanti
wf
INA
2172
0
1999
87 Velikic, Adela
 
SRB
2170
0
1997
88 Sanchez Ones, Yeny
wm
CUB
2169
10
1997
89 Gevorgyan, Maria
wf
ARM
2168
0
1994
90 Zarkovic, Mila
wf
SRB
2167
9
1996
91 Castrillon Gomez, Melissa
wm
COL
2167
0
1995
92 Frayna, Janelle Mae
wm
PHI
2167
0
1997
93 Ratsma, Rosa
 
NED
2165
2
1996
94 Baraeva, Marina
wm
RUS
2165
0
1995
95 Juhasz, Barbara
wf
HUN
2165
0
1995
96 Smirnova, Ekaterina
wf
RUS
2161
2
1996
97 Ghozali, Anugrah Maria
wf
INA
2161
0
2000
98 Khalafova, Narmin
wf
AZE
2161
0
1994
99 Rakhmangulova, Anastasiya
wm
UKR
2161
0
1994
100 Ivanenko, Olga I.
wf
UKR
2159
8
1994

Top 100 Rapid

There were few changes in the Top 100 Rapid list.

Rk
Name
Ti.
Fed
Rtg
Gms
B-Year
1 Caruana, Fabiano
g
ITA
2858
0
1992
2 Carlsen, Magnus
g
NOR
2855
0
1990
3 Grischuk, Alexander
g
RUS
2828
0
1983
4 Aronian, Levon
g
ARM
2813
0
1982
5 Ivanchuk, Vassily
g
UKR
2811
0
1969
6 Anand, Viswanathan
g
IND
2809
0
1969
7 Karjakin, Sergey
g
RUS
2806
0
1990
8 Nepomniachtchi, Ian
g
RUS
2801
0
1990
9 Nakamura, Hikaru
g
USA
2800
0
1987
10 Svidler, Peter
g
RUS
2799
0
1976
11 Morozevich, Alexander
g
RUS
2791
0
1977
12 Radjabov, Teimour
g
AZE
2776
0
1987
13 Kramnik, Vladimir
g
RUS
2773
0
1975
14 Leko, Peter
g
HUN
2773
0
1979
15 Le, Quang Liem
g
VIE
2771
0
1991
16 Wang, Yue
g
CHN
2765
0
1987
17 Adams, Michael
g
ENG
2764
0
1971
18 Dominguez Perez, Leinier
g
CUB
2763
0
1983
19 Tomashevsky, Evgeny
g
RUS
2748
0
1987
20 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
g
AZE
2739
0
1985
21 Ponomariov, Ruslan
g
UKR
2738
0
1983
22 Bacrot, Etienne
g
FRA
2731
0
1983
23 Kamsky, Gata
g
USA
2729
0
1974
24 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime
g
FRA
2728
0
1990
25 Jobava, Baadur
g
GEO
2727
0
1983
26 Jakovenko, Dmitry
g
RUS
2726
0
1983
27 Rublevsky, Sergei
g
RUS
2725
0
1974
28 Movsesian, Sergei
g
ARM
2724
0
1978
29 Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son
g
VIE
2724
0
1990
30 Rapport, Richard
g
HUN
2724
0
1996
31 Kovalenko, Igor
g
LAT
2721
9
1988
32 Gelfand, Boris
g
ISR
2719
0
1968
33 Wang, Hao
g
CHN
2719
0
1989
34 Malakhov, Vladimir
g
RUS
2715
0
1980
35 Eljanov, Pavel
g
UKR
2714
0
1983
36 Short, Nigel D
g
ENG
2714
0
1965
37 Sjugirov, Sanan
g
RUS
2713
11
1993
38 Fressinet, Laurent
g
FRA
2713
0
1981
39 Yu, Yangyi
g
CHN
2713
0
1994
40 Guseinov, Gadir
g
AZE
2709
0
1986
41 Ding, Liren
g
CHN
2708
0
1992
42 Mamedov, Rauf
g
AZE
2707
11
1988
43 Ragger, Markus
g
AUT
2701
9
1988
44 Harikrishna, P.
g
IND
2701
0
1986
45 Khairullin, Ildar
g
RUS
2701
0
1990
46 Vitiugov, Nikita
g
RUS
2701
0
1987
47 Iturrizaga Bonelli, Eduardo
g
VEN
2700
0
1989
48 Cheparinov, Ivan
g
BUL
2699
0
1986
49 Naiditsch, Arkadij
g
GER
2698
0
1985
50 Riazantsev, Alexander
g
RUS
2697
11
1985
51 Efimenko, Zahar
g
UKR
2695
0
1985
52 Van Wely, Loek
g
NED
2692
0
1972
53 Berkes, Ferenc
g
HUN
2690
0
1985
54 Dreev, Aleksey
g
RUS
2689
11
1969
55 Socko, Bartosz
g
POL
2689
9
1978
56 Vallejo Pons, Francisco
g
ESP
2689
0
1982
57 Kryvoruchko, Yuriy
g
UKR
2687
0
1986
58 Meier, Georg
g
GER
2686
0
1987
59 Istratescu, Andrei
g
FRA
2685
0
1975
60 Salgado Lopez, Ivan
g
ESP
2685
0
1991
61 Matlakov, Maxim
g
RUS
2684
11
1991
62 Adly, Ahmed
g
EGY
2684
0
1987
63 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw
g
POL
2684
0
1987
64 Bruzon Batista, Lazaro
g
CUB
2682
0
1982
65 Zhigalko, Sergei
g
BLR
2681
9
1989
66 Alekseev, Evgeny
g
RUS
2679
0
1985
67 Roiz, Michael
g
ISR
2678
0
1983
68 Granda Zuniga, Julio E
g
PER
2677
0
1967
69 Bartel, Mateusz
g
POL
2674
9
1985
70 Giri, Anish
g
NED
2674
0
1994
71 Korobov, Anton
g
UKR
2673
0
1985
72 Tkachiev, Vladislav
g
FRA
2673
0
1973
73 Grachev, Boris
g
RUS
2671
0
1986
74 Moiseenko, Alexander
g
UKR
2670
0
1980
75 Delgado Ramirez, Neuris
g
PAR
2669
11
1981
76 Smirnov, Pavel
g
RUS
2667
11
1982
77 Sadler, Matthew D
g
ENG
2667
0
1974
78 Yudin, Sergei
g
RUS
2667
0
1986
79 Sargissian, Gabriel
g
ARM
2666
0
1983
80 McShane, Luke J
g
ENG
2665
0
1984
81 Motylev, Alexander
g
RUS
2665
0
1979
82 Najer, Evgeniy
g
RUS
2665
0
1977
83 Parligras, Mircea-Emilian
g
ROU
2665
0
1980
84 Baklan, Vladimir
g
UKR
2664
0
1978
85 Fedorchuk, Sergey A.
g
UKR
2664
0
1981
86 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter
g
GER
2664
0
1976
87 Fedoseev, Vladimir
g
RUS
2660
0
1995
88 Zvjaginsev, Vadim
g
RUS
2660
0
1976
89 Potkin, Vladimir
g
RUS
2659
0
1982
90 Bukavshin, Ivan
g
RUS
2657
11
1995
91 Bachmann, Axel
g
PAR
2656
7
1989
92 Petrosian, Tigran L.
g
ARM
2655
0
1984
93 Laznicka, Viktor
g
CZE
2654
0
1988
94 Inarkiev, Ernesto
g
RUS
2653
0
1985
95 Khenkin, Igor
g
GER
2653
0
1968
96 Shirov, Alexei
g
LAT
2652
0
1972
97 Artemiev, Vladislav
g
RUS
2651
11
1998
98 Dubov, Daniil
g
RUS
2651
0
1996
99 Edouard, Romain
g
FRA
2651
0
1990
100 Onischuk, Vladimir
g
UKR
2648
0
1991

Top 50 Women Rapid

There were few changes in the Rapid ratings this month, and no major Elo changes of note.

Rk
Name
Ti.
Fed
Rtg
Gms
B-Year
1 Polgar, Judit
g
HUN
2646
0
1976
2 Koneru, Humpy
g
IND
2611
0
1987
3 Hou, Yifan
g
CHN
2600
0
1994
4 Lagno, Kateryna
g
RUS
2599
0
1989
5 Stefanova, Antoaneta
g
BUL
2578
0
1979
6 Kosteniuk, Alexandra
g
RUS
2577
0
1984
7 Ju, Wenjun
g
CHN
2555
0
1991
8 Gunina, Valentina
g
RUS
2552
0
1989
9 Dzagnidze, Nana
g
GEO
2547
0
1987
10 Muzychuk, Anna
g
UKR
2546
0
1990
11 Kosintseva, Tatiana
g
RUS
2505
0
1986
12 Ushenina, Anna
g
UKR
2489
0
1985
13 Paehtz, Elisabeth
m
GER
2485
0
1985
14 Zhao, Xue
g
CHN
2485
0
1985
15 Zatonskih, Anna
m
USA
2482
0
1978
16 Sebag, Marie
g
FRA
2479
0
1986
17 Krush, Irina
g
USA
2476
0
1983
18 Javakhishvili, Lela
m
GEO
2470
0
1984
19 Moser, Eva
m
AUT
2469
9
1982
20 Zhu, Chen
g
QAT
2464
0
1976
21 Cmilyte, Viktorija
g
LTU
2462
0
1983
22 Matnadze, Ana
m
ESP
2459
0
1983
23 Muzychuk, Mariya
m
UKR
2445
0
1992
24 Cramling, Pia
g
SWE
2443
0
1963
25 Shen, Yang
m
CHN
2442
0
1989
26 Socko, Monika
g
POL
2441
9
1978
27 Galliamova, Alisa
m
RUS
2440
0
1972
28 Huang, Qian
wg
CHN
2439
0
1986
29 Gaponenko, Inna
m
UKR
2432
0
1976
30 Arabidze, Meri
m
GEO
2430
0
1994
31 Guo, Qi
m
CHN
2426
0
1995
32 Hoang, Thanh Trang
g
HUN
2425
7
1980
33 Bodnaruk, Anastasia
m
RUS
2424
11
1992
34 Batsiashvili, Nino
m
GEO
2424
0
1987
35 Goryachkina, Aleksandra
wg
RUS
2423
9
1998
36 Tan, Zhongyi
wg
CHN
2423
0
1991
37 Harika, Dronavalli
g
IND
2421
0
1991
38 Peptan, Corina-Isabela
m
ROU
2419
0
1978
39 Khurtsidze, Nino
m
GEO
2409
0
1975
40 Karavade, Eesha
m
IND
2408
0
1987
41 Khotenashvili, Bela
g
GEO
2407
0
1988
42 Alexandrova, Olga
m
ESP
2406
0
1978
43 L'Ami, Alina
m
ROU
2404
0
1985
44 Pustovoitova, Daria
f
RUS
2399
0
1994
45 Majdan-Gajewska, Joanna
wg
POL
2397
8
1988
46 Zaiatz, Elena
m
RUS
2392
9
1969
47 Vojinovic, Jovana
wg
SRB
2392
0
1992
48 Guseva, Marina
m
RUS
2389
0
1986
49 Milliet, Sophie
m
FRA
2388
0
1983
50 Padmini, Rout
wg
IND
2386
0
1994

Top 100 Blitz

There were big winners and losers in blitz in November, mostly thanks to the massive Tal Memorial blitz tournament held at the World Championshiip venue in Sochi. The biggest winners were Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who won the 22-round tournament after an amazing 10/11 start, while Grischuk compounded his result in Moscow by coming a close second. Both players won over 90 FIDE Blitz.

Thanks to his imperial start, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov took the title with 16.0/22 and moved
to world no.3 in the FIDE Blitz lists with 2866

Rk
Name
Ti.
Fed
Rtg
Gms
B-Year
1 Carlsen, Magnus
g
NOR
2948
0
1990
2 Nakamura, Hikaru
g
USA
2906
0
1987
3 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
g
AZE
2866
22
1985
4 Aronian, Levon
g
ARM
2850
0
1982
5 Le, Quang Liem
g
VIE
2828
0
1991
6 Grischuk, Alexander
g
RUS
2819
22
1983
7 Anand, Viswanathan
g
IND
2811
0
1969
8 Morozevich, Alexander
g
RUS
2790
22
1977
9 Nepomniachtchi, Ian
g
RUS
2788
22
1990
10 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime
g
FRA
2776
0
1990
11 Mamedov, Rauf
g
AZE
2767
0
1988
12 Svidler, Peter
g
RUS
2760
22
1976
13 Ponomariov, Ruslan
g
UKR
2758
0
1983
14 Gelfand, Boris
g
ISR
2757
22
1968
15 Giri, Anish
g
NED
2757
0
1994
16 Bogdanovich, Stanislav
m
UKR
2754
0
1993
17 Korobov, Anton
g
UKR
2752
0
1985
18 Karjakin, Sergey
g
RUS
2751
22
1990
19 Dreev, Aleksey
g
RUS
2749
0
1969
20 Sargissian, Gabriel
g
ARM
2749
0
1983
21 Smirin, Ilia
g
ISR
2743
0
1968
22 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw
g
POL
2743
0
1987
23 Bacrot, Etienne
g
FRA
2739
0
1983
24 Malakhov, Vladimir
g
RUS
2738
0
1980
25 Polgar, Judit
g
HUN
2736
0
1976
26 Zubov, Alexander
g
UKR
2735
0
1983
27 Savchenko, Boris
g
RUS
2733
0
1986
28 Kramnik, Vladimir
g
RUS
2731
22
1975
29 Dominguez Perez, Leinier
g
CUB
2728
0
1983
30 Harikrishna, P.
g
IND
2728
0
1986
31 Meier, Georg
g
GER
2726
0
1987
32 So, Wesley
g
USA
2726
0
1993
33 Iturrizaga Bonelli, Eduardo
g
VEN
2720
0
1989
34 Ivanchuk, Vassily
g
UKR
2720
0
1969
35 Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son
g
VIE
2715
0
1990
36 Radjabov, Teimour
g
AZE
2715
0
1987
37 Bruzon Batista, Lazaro
g
CUB
2712
0
1982
38 Lu, Shanglei
g
CHN
2707
9
1995
39 Riazantsev, Alexander
g
RUS
2707
0
1985
40 Navara, David
g
CZE
2705
0
1985
41 Kamsky, Gata
g
USA
2704
0
1974
42 Andriasian, Zaven
g
ARM
2700
0
1989
43 Fressinet, Laurent
g
FRA
2699
0
1981
44 Caruana, Fabiano
g
ITA
2695
0
1992
45 Kokarev, Dmitry
g
RUS
2695
0
1982
46 Kononenko, Dmitry
g
UKR
2695
0
1988
47 Vitiugov, Nikita
g
RUS
2695
0
1987
48 Leko, Peter
g
HUN
2694
22
1979
49 Yu, Yangyi
g
CHN
2694
0
1994
50 Khismatullin, Denis
g
RUS
2693
0
1984
51 Wang, Hao
g
CHN
2693
0
1989
52 Kazhgaleyev, Murtas
g
KAZ
2692
0
1973
53 Sasikiran, Krishnan
g
IND
2692
0
1981
54 Grachev, Boris
g
RUS
2691
0
1986
55 Laznicka, Viktor
g
CZE
2691
0
1988
56 Shimanov, Aleksandr
g
RUS
2691
0
1992
57 Bocharov, Dmitry
g
RUS
2689
0
1982
58 Cheparinov, Ivan
g
BUL
2688
0
1986
59 Ding, Liren
g
CHN
2688
0
1992
60 Najer, Evgeniy
g
RUS
2688
0
1977
61 Areshchenko, Alexander
g
UKR
2687
0
1986
62 Edouard, Romain
g
FRA
2686
0
1990
63 Yudin, Sergei
g
RUS
2686
0
1986
64 Matlakov, Maxim
g
RUS
2683
0
1991
65 Kovalenko, Igor
g
LAT
2682
11
1988
66 Dubov, Daniil
g
RUS
2681
0
1996
67 Wang, Yue
g
CHN
2680
9
1987
68 Eljanov, Pavel
g
UKR
2680
0
1983
69 Bortnyk, Olexandr
m
UKR
2679
0
1996
70 Petrosian, Tigran L.
g
ARM
2677
0
1984
71 Safarli, Eltaj
g
AZE
2676
0
1992
72 Ragger, Markus
g
AUT
2674
13
1988
73 Kuzubov, Yuriy
g
UKR
2672
0
1990
74 Inarkiev, Ernesto
g
RUS
2671
22
1985
75 Tomashevsky, Evgeny
g
RUS
2669
22
1987
76 Rapport, Richard
g
HUN
2668
0
1996
77 Jones, Gawain C B
g
ENG
2666
0
1987
78 Ponkratov, Pavel
g
RUS
2666
0
1988
79 Bukavshin, Ivan
g
RUS
2665
0
1995
80 Muzychuk, Anna
g
UKR
2665
0
1990
81 Saric, Ivan
g
CRO
2665
0
1990
82 Anton Guijarro, David
g
ESP
2664
0
1995
83 Lenderman, Aleksandr
g
USA
2664
0
1989
84 Granda Zuniga, Julio E
g
PER
2663
0
1967
85 Van Wely, Loek
g
NED
2663
0
1972
86 Hou, Yifan
g
CHN
2662
0
1994
87 Fedorchuk, Sergey A.
g
UKR
2661
0
1981
88 Avrukh, Boris
g
ISR
2657
0
1978
89 Movsesian, Sergei
g
ARM
2657
0
1978
90 Demidov, Mikhail
m
RUS
2656
0
1992
91 Dlugy, Maxim
g
USA
2656
0
1966
92 Short, Nigel D
g
ENG
2655
9
1965
93 Roiz, Michael
g
ISR
2655
0
1983
94 Ramirez, Alejandro
g
USA
2654
0
1988
95 Bortnyk, Mykola
m
UKR
2653
0
1994
96 Guseinov, Gadir
g
AZE
2653
0
1986
97 Khairullin, Ildar
g
RUS
2652
0
1990
98 Nyzhnyk, Illya
g
UKR
2652
0
1996
99 Palac, Mladen
g
CRO
2652
0
1971
100 Rakhmanov, Aleksandr
g
RUS
2652
0
1989

Top 50 Women Blitz

Only a handful of players played any events this month, with no real changes in the top 50.

Rk
Name
Ti.
Fed
Rtg
Gms
B-Year
1 Polgar, Judit
g
HUN
2736
0
1976
2 Muzychuk, Anna
g
UKR
2665
0
1990
3 Hou, Yifan
g
CHN
2662
0
1994
4 Dzagnidze, Nana
g
GEO
2591
0
1987
5 Gunina, Valentina
g
RUS
2582
22
1989
6 Kosintseva, Tatiana
g
RUS
2578
0
1986
7 Zhao, Xue
g
CHN
2576
0
1985
8 Stefanova, Antoaneta
g
BUL
2569
0
1979
9 Lagno, Kateryna
g
RUS
2540
0
1989
10 Harika, Dronavalli
g
IND
2533
0
1991
11 Tan, Zhongyi
wg
CHN
2525
0
1991
12 Paehtz, Elisabeth
m
GER
2522
0
1985
13 Koneru, Humpy
g
IND
2521
0
1987
14 Sebag, Marie
g
FRA
2504
0
1986
15 Kosteniuk, Alexandra
g
RUS
2479
22
1984
16 Huang, Qian
wg
CHN
2471
0
1986
17 Ju, Wenjun
g
CHN
2469
0
1991
18 Ushenina, Anna
g
UKR
2467
0
1985
19 Matnadze, Ana
m
ESP
2461
0
1983
20 Khotenashvili, Bela
g
GEO
2457
0
1988
21 Cmilyte, Viktorija
g
LTU
2439
0
1983
22 Muzychuk, Mariya
m
UKR
2439
0
1992
23 Bodnaruk, Anastasia
m
RUS
2436
0
1992
24 Cramling, Pia
g
SWE
2433
0
1963
25 Zatonskih, Anna
m
USA
2425
0
1978
26 Socko, Monika
g
POL
2424
0
1978
27 Guseva, Marina
m
RUS
2420
9
1986
28 Zhu, Chen
g
QAT
2411
0
1976
29 L'Ami, Alina
m
ROU
2409
0
1985
30 Alexandrova, Olga
m
ESP
2408
0
1978
31 Munguntuul, Batkhuyag
m
MGL
2404
0
1987
32 Peptan, Corina-Isabela
m
ROU
2404
0
1978
33 Charochkina, Daria
wg
RUS
2400
0
1990
34 Sukandar, Irine Kharisma
m
INA
2400
0
1992
35 Vasilevich, Tatjana
m
UKR
2400
0
1977
36 Guo, Qi
m
CHN
2396
0
1995
37 Zaiatz, Elena
m
RUS
2390
0
1969
38 Zhukova, Natalia
g
UKR
2390
0
1979
39 Ubiennykh, Ekaterina
wm
RUS
2386
0
1983
40 Hoang, Thi Bao Tram
wg
VIE
2385
0
1987
41 Lomineishvili, Maia
m
GEO
2383
0
1977
42 Moser, Eva
m
AUT
2382
13
1982
43 Batsiashvili, Nino
m
GEO
2380
0
1987
44 Ambartsumova, Karina
wg
RUS
2378
0
1989
45 Gaponenko, Inna
m
UKR
2370
0
1976
46 Krush, Irina
g
USA
2370
0
1983
47 Shen, Yang
m
CHN
2367
0
1989
48 Cori T., Deysi
wg
PER
2366
0
1993
49 Khurtsidze, Nino
m
GEO
2366
0
1975
50 Guramishvili, Sopiko
m
GEO
2364
0
1991

Source: FIDE


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