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Magnus Carlsen has increased his lead over World Champion Vishy Anand from six point in the previous list to fifteen points in the current one, as a result of his performance at the Grand Slam in Bilbao. Vladimir Kramnik joined the 2800 club after a protracted absence, and is now one of four players sipping their brandy there. One of them, Levon Aronian, lost five points but not his membership in the elite club.
Teimour Radjabov made the biggest jump with 29 points more than in the last list. There he was thirteenth, in the latest he is fifth. Sergey Karjakin lost nine points and dropped from fifth to eighth. Vassily Ivanchuk has overtaken Veselin Topalov who is now in place seven. Alexander Morozevich is back in the top ten, moving from place seventeen to nine, with Hikaru Nakamura following in place ten, down from place eight in the previous list. Alexander Grischuk is out of the top ten in place thirteen, with Vugar Gashimov and Peter Svidler ahead of him.
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Addendum: Jonathan Bone remarks that we should be struck by the acceleration of rating inflation. "The first FIDE list in July 1971 had precisely one 2700+ player – Fischer, at 2760, with Bruno Parma tied with five others for 47th at 2530. The July 1981 list still had but one 2700+ player – Karpov, at exactly 2700. There was a four-way tie for 45th-48th places at 2540. In July 1991 there were three 2700+ payers: Kasparov at 2800, Karpov at 2725, and Gelfand at 2700. 47th place that list was Gavrikov at 2580. In July 2001 there were twelve 2700+ players, with Kasparov at 2838 and Kramnik at 2802. 47th was Vallejo Pons at 2630. The current November 2011 list has all of 47 players over 2700....
Rank | Old | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games |
5 | 13 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2781 (+29) | 15 (+6) |
6 | 7 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2775 (+10) | 26 (+11) |
9 | 17 | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2762 (+25) | 17 (-11) |
12 | 16 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2755 (+15) | 21 (+7) |
15 | 36 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2740 (+30) | 22 (+11) |
20 | 24 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | g | RUS | 2730 (+12) | 11 (-5) |
21 | 27 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2729 (+13) | 23 (+12) |
23 | 32 | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2727 (+15) | 27 (+7) |
24 | 42 | Navara, David | g | CZE | 2724 (+19) | 19 (+6) |
36 | 57 | Riazantsev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2710 (+22) | 11 (+11) |
52 | 61 | Grachev, Boris | g | RUS | 2693 (+11) | 15 (-14) |
58 | 71 | Areshchenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2688 (+16) | 7 (+3) |
62 | 72 | Potkin, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2684 (+13) | 13 (+2) |
64 | 81 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | g | RUS | 2680 (+14) | 16 (-4) |
73 | 88 | Sargissian, Gabriel | g | ARM | 2671 (+13) | 7 (-5) |
77 | 101 | Azarov, Sergei | g | BLR | 2667 (+19) | 20 (+20) |
90 | 100 | Meier, Georg | g | GER | 2659 (+11) | 10 (0) |
Rank | Old | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games |
18 | 14 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2733 (-13) | 11 (-7) |
19 | 10 | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2732 (-24) | 16 (-2) |
25 | 8 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2723 (-35) | 33 (+23) |
27 | 22 | Moiseenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2715 (-11) | 23 (+15) |
40 | 28 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | g | ESP | 2705 (-11) | 14 (+5) |
46 | 35 | Li, Chao b | g | CHN | 2700 (-10) | 19 (-4) |
49 | 26 | Wang, Yue | g | CHN | 2697 (-19) | 18 (-5) |
57 | 44 | Andreikin, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2688 (-17) | 20 (+12) |
65 | 33 | Jobava, Baadur | g | GEO | 2678 (-34) | 20 (+11) |
66 | 54 | Motylev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2678 (-12) | 18 (+12) |
87 | 73 | Korobov, Anton | g | UKR | 2660 (-11) | 19 (+19) |
92 | 77 | Feller, Sebastien | g | FRA | 2658 (-10) | 14 (+3) |
95 | 75 | Ni, Hua | g | CHN | 2656 (-14) | 20 (-16) |
100 | 78 | Roiz, Michael | g | ISR | 2651 (-17) | 23 (+16) |
101 | 50 | Zhigalko, Sergei | g | BLR | 2651 (-45) | 20 (-6) |
In the women's list Judit Polgar has gained nine points and remains over one hundred ahead of her nearest rivals. they are GMs Koneru Humpy and Hou Yifan, who will be playing a women's world championship match in just over a week. Hou has played 52 games in the last two rating periods, Humpy just eleven. Naturally we need to point out the steep climb undertaken by Zhao Xue, who has gained (would you believe it) 61 points from 22 games in the last two-month period, 42 of them from the Women's Grand Prix that was staged in Nalchik last month.
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In the junior section Anish Giri has lost his lead, and Italo-American GM Fabiano Caruana has taken over. He is now thirteen points ahead of Vietnamese super-talent Le Quang Liem (and Giri).
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Chinese wonder-girl Hou Yifan is 35 points ahead of her compatriot Ju Wenjun, who at 2543 still sports the title of Women's Grandmaster. Ju will probably skip the IM title and soon turn up as a full-blown GM.
Addendum: Alexei Kovalczuk of Curitiba, Brazil, thinks that Wenjun Ju, who had numerous IM results in the 2009-2010 period, may be simply avoiding the IM title, "because it's halfway to the top, while the WGM is the top of something, or because having the IM title in only girls tournament doesn't help much. Another example of this is Natalija Pogonina, who has even crossed the 2500 mark but never asked the IM title."
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Lists and data by courtesy of FIDE