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But Carlsen remains the clear number in the world and with a live-rating of 2846.7 he is still 27.1 points ahead of Fabiano Caruana.
However, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is no longer among the world's top ten. After his disastrous result in Wijk he dropped a few places on the live-rating list, where he is currently number 15. But it is well-known that a bad dress rehearsal often leads to a good premiere, and for "MVL" this "premiere" would be the Candidates Tournament 2020-21, that is scheduled to finish in Spring 2021.
Currently, Vachier-Lagrave shares first place with Ian Nepomniachtchi (both have 4½/7) in the Candidates, and if he regains his form he can still hope to win the tournament to become Carlsen's next challenger.
The 17-year old Firouzja won 10 rating-points in Wijk and is now number 13 on the live-rating list, two places ahead of Vachier-Lagrave.
With their impressive performances in Wijk Van Foreest and Esipenko both managed to jump the +2700 mark and now belong to the small group of super grandmasters with a rating of more than 2700.
Live-rating list (the FIDE rating list from February 2021 did not take the results of Wijk into account)
|
1 |
2846.7 |
−15.3 | ||
|
2 |
2819.6 |
−3.4 | ||
|
3 |
2791.0 |
0.0 | ||
|
4 |
2789.0 |
0.0 | ||
|
5 |
↑1 |
2781.0 |
0.0 | |
|
6 |
↑1 |
2777.0 |
0.0 | |
|
7 |
↑4 |
2776.4 |
+12.4 | |
|
8 |
2770.0 |
0.0 | ||
|
9 |
2770.0 |
0.0 | ||
|
10 |
2765.0 |
0.0 | ||
|
11 |
↑1 |
2763.0 |
0.0 | |
|
12 |
↑1 |
2762.9 |
+3.9 | |
|
13 |
↑5 |
2759.2 |
+10.2 | |
|
14 |
2758.0 |
0.0 | ||
|
15 |
↓10 |
2757.7 |
−26.3 | |
|
16 |
↓1 |
2757.0 |
0.0 | |
|
17 |
↓1 |
2753.0 |
0.0 | |
|
18 |
↓1 |
2753.0 |
0.0 | |
|
19 |
↑1 |
2736.0 |
0.0 | |
|
20 |
↑1 |
2735.0 |
0.0 | |
|
21 |
↑2 |
2732.1 |
+0.1 | |
|
22 |
2730.4 |
−1.6 | ||
|
23 |
↓4 |
2729.5 |
−13.5 | |
|
24 |
2726.0 |
0.0 | ||
|
25 |
2725.0 |
0.0 | ||
|
26 |
2716.0 |
0.0 | ||
|
27 |
2715.0 |
0.0 | ||
|
28 |
2714.0 |
0.0 | ||
|
29 |
↑5 |
2712.2 |
+3.2 | |
|
30 |
↓1 |
2710.0 |
0.0 | |
|
31 |
↓1 |
2710.0 |
0.0 | |
|
32 |
↓1 |
2709.0 |
0.0 | |
|
33 |
↓1 |
2709.0 |
0.0 | |
|
34 |
↓1 |
2709.0 |
0.0 | |
|
35 |
2706.0 |
0.0 | ||
|
36 |
2705.0 |
0.0 | ||
|
37 |
↑30 |
2701.2 |
+30.2 | |
|
38 |
↑22 |
2701.1 |
+24.1 |
