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In the January 1st 2005 rating list Garry Kasparov managed to keep above the 2800 mark – by just four points. He was dragged below it by a disastrous performance at the European Club Cup but managed to make good with a brilliant win at the Russian Super-Final.
Indian superstar Vishy Anand has narrowed the gap to Kasparov further by scoring well at the Calvià Chess Olympiad (8/11). He is now just 18 points behind the perennial leader. One good performance, e.g. at the Wijk aan Zee tournament at the end of the month, and Anand could produce the biggest sensation of the year.
Veselin Topalov has now overtaken Vladimir Kramnik, breaking open the decade-old threesome of Kasparov, Anand and Kramnik. Actually Topalov's rating has remained unchanged since the last period, since he played no rated games. But Kramnik lost six points by drawing his Dannemann world championship match in Brissago. Peter Leko gained six points to remain in hot contention for the number three spot in the world rankings.
Finally we must congratulate Etienne Bacrot, who is as far as we know the first French player to enter the top ten club.
In the following lists you can click on the names of the players to access their Personal FIDE Cards. These include the national ranking, full individual calculation reports and previous top lists where the players have appeared. All data was collected and processed by FIDE.com.
Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Day |
1 | Kasparov, Garry | g | RUS | 2804 | 16 | 1963-04-13 |
2 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2786 | 11 | 1969-12-11 |
3 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2757 | 0 | 1975-03-15 |
4 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2754 | 14 | 1975-06-25 |
5 | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2749 | 14 | 1979-09-08 |
6 | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2741 | 21 | 1977-07-18 |
7 | Adams, Michael | g | ENG | 2741 | 20 | 1971-11-17 |
8 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2735 | 19 | 1976-06-17 |
9 | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2715 | 5 | 1983-01-22 |
10 | Shirov, Alexei | g | ESP | 2713 | 19 | 1972-07-04 |
11 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2711 | 29 | 1969-03-18 |
12 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2710 | 26 | 1983-10-31 |
13 | Bareev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2709 | 10 | 1966-11-21 |
14 | Dreev, Alexey | g | RUS | 2704 | 19 | 1969-01-30 |
15 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2700 | 8 | 1983-10-11 |
16 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2696 | 17 | 1968-06-24 |
17 | Akopian, Vladimir | g | ARM | 2693 | 13 | 1971-12-07 |
18 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | g | ESP | 2686 | 26 | 1982-08-21 |
19 | Sokolov, Ivan | g | NED | 2685 | 24 | 1968-06-13 |
20 | Volokitin, Andrei | g | UKR | 2685 | 20 | 1986-06-11 |
21 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2684 | 12 | 1982-10-06 |
22 | Bologan, Viktor | g | MDA | 2683 | 26 | 1971-12-14 |
23 | Van Wely, Loek | g | NED | 2679 | 13 | 1972-10-07 |
24 | Lautier, Joel | g | FRA | 2678 | 21 | 1973-04-12 |
25 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | g | UZB | 2678 | 17 | 1979-12-05 |
26 | Sakaev, Konstantin | g | RUS | 2677 | 6 | 1974-04-13 |
27 | Nikolic, Predrag | g | BIH | 2676 | 0 | 1960-09-11 |
28 | Short, Nigel D. | g | ENG | 2674 | 17 | 1965-06-01 |
29 | Karpov, Anatoly | g | RUS | 2674 | 4 | 1951-05-23 |
30 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | g | ROM | 2673 | 22 | 1976-08-01 |
31 | Krasenkow, Michal | g | POL | 2672 | 34 | 1963-11-14 |
32 | Vaganian, Rafael A | g | ARM | 2670 | 16 | 1951-10-15 |
33 | Moiseenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2669 | 25 | 1980-05-17 |
34 | Sutovsky, Emil | g | ISR | 2669 | 21 | 1977-09-19 |
35 | Milov, Vadim | g | SUI | 2668 | 18 | 1972-08-01 |
36 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2667 | 18 | 1987-03-12 |
37 | Motylev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2665 | 17 | 1979-06-17 |
38 | Malakhov, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2664 | 8 | 1980-11-27 |
39 | Azmaiparashvili, Zurab | g | GEO | 2662 | 19 | 1960-03-16 |
40 | Khalifman, Alexander | g | RUS | 2662 | 13 | 1966-01-18 |
41 | Dominguez, Lenier | g | CUB | 2661 | 11 | 1983-09-23 |
42 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2657 | 25 | 1985-04-12 |
43 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | g | IND | 2657 | 22 | 1981-01-07 |
44 | Georgiev, Kiril | g | BUL | 2654 | 33 | 1965-11-28 |
45 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | g | RUS | 2653 | 10 | 1976-08-18 |
46 | Bruzon, Lazaro | g | CUB | 2652 | 28 | 1982-05-02 |
47 | Onischuk, Alexander | g | USA | 2652 | 24 | 1975-09-03 |
48 | Rublevsky, Sergei | g | RUS | 2650 | 17 | 1974-10-15 |
49 | Nielsen, Peter Heine | g | DEN | 2648 | 15 | 1973-05-24 |
50 | Ye, Jiangchuan | g | CHN | 2648 | 3 | 1960-11-20 |
51 | Smirnov, Pavel | g | RUS | 2645 | 25 | 1982-04-27 |
52 | Vescovi, Giovanni | g | BRA | 2645 | 0 | 1978-06-14 |
53 | Smirin, Ilia | g | ISR | 2644 | 27 | 1968-01-21 |
54 | Navara, David | g | CZE | 2644 | 26 | 1985-03-27 |
55 | Eljanov, Pavel | g | UKR | 2643 | 8 | 1983-05-10 |
56 | Jobava, Baadur | g | GEO | 2640 | 17 | 1983-11-26 |
57 | Lputian, Smbat G | g | ARM | 2640 | 12 | 1958-02-14 |
58 | Fressinet, Laurent | g | FRA | 2638 | 21 | 1981-11-30 |
59 | Graf, Alexander | g | GER | 2637 | 25 | 1962-08-25 |
60 | Bauer, Christian | g | FRA | 2636 | 6 | 1977-01-11 |
61 | Aleksandrov, Aleksej | g | BLR | 2635 | 35 | 1973-05-11 |
62 | Beliavsky, Alexander G | g | SLO | 2635 | 27 | 1953-12-17 |
63 | Sadvakasov, Darmen | g | KAZ | 2635 | 26 | 1979-04-28 |
64 | Gurevich, Mikhail | g | BEL | 2634 | 26 | 1959-02-22 |
65 | Kobalia, Mikhail | g | RUS | 2634 | 16 | 1978-05-03 |
66 | Illescas Cordoba, Miguel | g | ESP | 2633 | 18 | 1965-12-03 |
67 | Hansen, Curt | g | DEN | 2633 | 0 | 1964-09-18 |
68 | Harikrishna, P. | g | IND | 2632 | 42 | 1986-05-10 |
69 | Seirawan, Yasser | g | USA | 2631 | 0 | 1960-03-24 |
70 | Avrukh, Boris | g | ISR | 2629 | 26 | 1978-01-08 |
71 | Kaidanov, Gregory S | g | USA | 2629 | 10 | 1959-10-11 |
72 | Tregubov, Pavel V. | g | RUS | 2629 | 0 | 1971-12-21 |
73 | Goldin, Alexander | g | USA | 2628 | 10 | 1965-02-27 |
74 | Almasi, Zoltan | g | HUN | 2628 | 9 | 1976-08-29 |
75 | Hjartarson, Johann | g | ISL | 2628 | 0 | 1963-02-08 |
76 | Tiviakov, Sergei | g | NED | 2627 | 43 | 1973-02-14 |
77 | Ni, Hua | g | CHN | 2625 | 22 | 1983-05-31 |
78 | Movsesian, Sergei | g | SVK | 2624 | 28 | 1978-11-03 |
79 | Kempinski, Robert | g | POL | 2624 | 24 | 1977-07-11 |
80 | Huebner, Robert Dr. | g | GER | 2624 | 0 | 1948-11-06 |
81 | Najer, Evgeniy | g | RUS | 2624 | 0 | 1977-06-22 |
82 | Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan | g | IRI | 2623 | 66 | 1982-08-11 |
83 | Vladimirov, Evgeny | g | KAZ | 2623 | 19 | 1957-01-20 |
84 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | g | GER | 2623 | 7 | 1985-10-25 |
85 | Ehlvest, Jaan | g | EST | 2622 | 19 | 1962-10-14 |
86 | Filippov, Valerij | g | RUS | 2621 | 7 | 1975-11-28 |
87 | Miroshnichenko, Evgenij | g | UKR | 2620 | 17 | 1978-12-28 |
88 | Timofeev, Artyom | g | RUS | 2619 | 26 | 1985-01-06 |
89 | Macieja, Bartlomiej | g | POL | 2618 | 26 | 1977-10-04 |
90 | Korchnoi, Viktor | g | SUI | 2617 | 29 | 1931-03-23 |
91 | Istratescu, Andrei | g | ROM | 2617 | 5 | 1975-12-03 |
92 | Sadler, Matthew | g | ENG | 2617 | 0 | 1974-05-15 |
93 | Gustafsson, Jan | g | GER | 2616 | 20 | 1979-06-25 |
94 | Iordachescu, Viorel | g | MDA | 2615 | 23 | 1977-04-20 |
95 | Epishin, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2614 | 42 | 1965-07-11 |
96 | Lutz, Christopher | g | GER | 2614 | 18 | 1971-02-24 |
97 | McShane, Luke J. | g | ENG | 2614 | 17 | 1984-01-07 |
98 | Kharlov, Andrei | g | RUS | 2614 | 6 | 1968-11-20 |
99 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2613 | 25 | 1987-12-09 |
100 | Kazhgaleyev, Murtas | g | KAZ | 2613 | 2 |
At the top of the women's list we have Susan Polgar, whose remarkable performance in Calvià has proved her qualities beyond any doubt. Ex world champion Xie Jun is second, and current world champion Antoaneta Stefanova seventh.
Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Day |
1 | Polgar, Zsuzsa | g | USA | 2577 | 14 | 1969-04-19 |
2 | Xie, Jun | g | CHN | 2573 | 10 | 1970-10-30 |
3 | Koneru, Humpy | g | IND | 2512 | 27 | 1987-03-31 |
4 | Chiburdanidze, Maia | g | GEO | 2509 | 13 | 1961-01-17 |
5 | Zhao, Xue | wg | CHN | 2502 | 12 | 1985-04-06 |
6 | Zhu, Chen | g | CHN | 2494 | 0 | 1976-03-16 |
7 | Stefanova, Antoaneta | g | BUL | 2491 | 26 | 1979-04-19 |
8 | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | g | RUS | 2490 | 19 | 1984-04-23 |
9 | Xu, Yuhua | wg | CHN | 2487 | 20 | 1976-10-29 |
10 | Cramling, Pia | g | SWE | 2481 | 13 | 1963-04-23 |
11 | Dzagnidze, Nana | m | GEO | 2477 | 30 | 1987-01-01 |
12 | Galliamova, Alisa | m | RUS | 2477 | 0 | 1972-01-18 |
13 | Kosintseva, Tatiana | m | RUS | 2475 | 9 | 1986-04-11 |
14 | Hoang Thanh Trang | m | VIE | 2470 | 10 | 1980-04-25 |
15 | Cmilyte, Viktorija | m | LTU | 2468 | 15 | 1983-08-06 |
16 | Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina | m | RUS | 2466 | 19 | 1974-04-17 |
17 | Krush, Irina | m | USA | 2466 | 12 | 1983-12-24 |
18 | Qin, Kanying | wg | CHN | 2466 | 0 | 1974-02-02 |
19 | Zhukova, Natalia | wg | UKR | 2465 | 12 | 1979-06-05 |
20 | Gaponenko, Inna | m | UKR | 2464 | 27 | 1976-06-22 |
21 | Kosintseva, Nadezhda | m | RUS | 2460 | 12 | 1985-01-14 |
22 | Radziewicz, Iweta | m | POL | 2459 | 22 | 1981-03-16 |
23 | Skripchenko, Almira | m | FRA | 2459 | 21 | 1976-02-17 |
24 | Javakhishvili, Lela | wg | GEO | 2456 | 35 | 1984-04-23 |
25 | Lahno, Kateryna | m | UKR | 2454 | 18 | 1989-12-27 |
26 | Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan | m | GEO | 2454 | 9 | 1968-07-19 |
27 | Socko, Monika | m | POL | 2441 | 28 | 1978-03-24 |
28 | Moser, Eva | m | AUT | 2438 | 19 | 1982-07-26 |
29 | Zatonskih, Anna | wg | USA | 2435 | 28 | 1978-07-17 |
30 | Peptan, Corina-Isabela | m | ROM | 2434 | 28 | 1978-03-17 |
31 | Matveeva, Svetlana | wg | RUS | 2427 | 6 | 1969-07-04 |
32 | Kachiani-G., Ketino | m | GER | 2423 | 12 | 1971-09-11 |
33 | Sebag, Marie | m | FRA | 2421 | 22 | 1986-10-15 |
34 | Mashinskaya, Iulia | wg | RUS | 2420 | 47 | 1977-02-18 |
35 | Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman | m | IND | 2418 | 34 | 1979-03-25 |
36 | Korbut, Ekaterina | wg | RUS | 2417 | 28 | 1985-02-09 |
37 | Maric, Alisa | m | SCG | 2416 | 28 | 1970-01-10 |
38 | Sedina, Elena | m | ITA | 2416 | 16 | 1968-06-01 |
39 | Danielian, Elina | m | ARM | 2415 | 36 | 1978-08-16 |
40 | Hunt, Harriet | m | ENG | 2415 | 24 | 1978-02-04 |
41 | Slavina, Irina | m | RUS | 2415 | 15 | 1979-08-10 |
42 | Polovnikova, Ekaterina | wg | RUS | 2414 | 6 | 1982-11-14 |
43 | Foisor, Cristina Adela | m | ROM | 2411 | 38 | 1967-06-07 |
44 | Zozulia, Anna | m | UKR | 2411 | 9 | 1980-03-10 |
45 | Lomineishvili, Maia | m | GEO | 2410 | 19 | 1977-11-11 |
46 | Xu, Yuanyuan | wg | CHN | 2409 | 10 | 1981-03-08 |
47 | Li, Ruofan | wg | CHN | 2409 | 9 | 1978-04-30 |
48 | Zielinska, Marta | wg | POL | 2408 | 19 | 1978-01-30 |
49 | Paehtz, Elisabeth | m | GER | 2407 | 23 | 1985-01-08 |
50 | Jackova, Jana | m | CZE | 2405 | 19 | 1982-08-06 |
51 | Gara, Anita | wg | HUN | 2405 | 11 | 1983-03-04 |
52 | Peng, Zhaoqin | g | NED | 2405 | 10 | 1968-05-08 |
Amongst the juniors 18-year-old Andrei Volotkin is leading by 18 points, ahead of Teimour Radjabov, who is almost a year his junior. India's Pentala Harikrishna, who recently won the Junior World Championships in Cochin, is now number five, while 14-year-old Sergey Karjakin is number 14. Magnus Carlsen and Yuriy Kuzubov have not yet made the top 20.
Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Day |
1 | Volokitin, Andrei | g | UKR | 2685 | 20 | 1986-06-11 |
2 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2667 | 18 | 1987-03-12 |
3 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2657 | 25 | 1985-04-12 |
4 | Navara, David | g | CZE | 2644 | 26 | 1985-03-27 |
5 | Harikrishna, P. | g | IND | 2632 | 42 | 1986-05-10 |
6 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | g | GER | 2623 | 7 | 1985-10-25 |
7 | Timofeev, Artyom | g | RUS | 2619 | 26 | 1985-01-06 |
8 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2613 | 25 | 1987-12-09 |
9 | Berkes, Ferenc | g | HUN | 2610 | 31 | 1985-08-08 |
10 | Bu, Xiangzhi | g | CHN | 2607 | 13 | 1985-12-10 |
11 | Alekseev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2605 | 36 | 1985-11-28 |
12 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | g | RUS | 2602 | 16 | 1985-12-09 |
13 | Efimenko, Zahar | g | UKR | 2601 | 9 | 1985-07-03 |
14 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | UKR | 2599 | 7 | 1990-01-12 |
15 | Riazantsev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2596 | 0 | 1985-09-12 |
16 | Gashimov, Vugar | g | AZE | 2585 | 12 | 1986-07-24 |
17 | Guseinov, Gadir | g | AZE | 2574 | 10 | 1986-05-21 |
18 | Cheparinov, Ivan | g | BUL | 2572 | 37 | 1986-11-26 |
19 | Korobov, Anton | g | UKR | 2572 | 0 | 1985-06-25 |
20 | Areshchenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2570 | 18 | 1986-06-15 |
The girl's section is led by Koneru Humpy of India, who at 17 has a full male grandmaster title to her name. WGM Zhao Xue is the only other girl above 2500. The Kosintseva sisters are together at places 4 and 5, while the youngest in the group, Dronavalli Harika (13) of India and Anna Muzychuk (14) of Slovenia are 10th and 11th.
Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Day |
1 | Koneru, Humpy | g | IND | 2512 | 27 | 1987-03-31 |
2 | Zhao, Xue | wg | CHN | 2502 | 12 | 1985-04-06 |
3 | Dzagnidze, Nana | m | GEO | 2477 | 30 | 1987-01-01 |
4 | Kosintseva, Tatiana | m | RUS | 2475 | 9 | 1986-04-11 |
5 | Kosintseva, Nadezhda | m | RUS | 2460 | 12 | 1985-01-14 |
6 | Lahno, Kateryna | m | UKR | 2454 | 18 | 1989-12-27 |
7 | Sebag, Marie | m | FRA | 2421 | 22 | 1986-10-15 |
8 | Korbut, Ekaterina | wg | RUS | 2417 | 28 | 1985-02-09 |
9 | Paehtz, Elisabeth | m | GER | 2407 | 23 | 1985-01-08 |
10 | Harika, Dronavalli | wg | IND | 2396 | 29 | 1991-01-12 |
11 | Muzychuk, Anna | wg | SLO | 2387 | 23 | 1990-02-28 |
12 | Ruan, Lufei | CHN | 2387 | 0 | 1987-10-02 | |
13 | Huang, Qian | wm | CHN | 2381 | 9 | 1986-07-18 |
14 | Zawadzka, Jolanta | wm | POL | 2363 | 20 | 1987-02-08 |
15 | Pogonina, Natalija | wg | RUS | 2362 | 27 | 1985-03-09 |
16 | Karavade, Eesha | wm | IND | 2360 | 32 | 1987-11-21 |
17 | Ushenina, Anna | wg | UKR | 2357 | 15 | 1985-08-30 |
18 | Mongontuul, Bathuyag | wg | MGL | 2357 | 10 | 1987-10-08 |
19 | Gunina, Valentina | wf | RUS | 2342 | 18 | 1989-02-04 |
20 | Melia, Salome | wm | GEO | 2340 | 11 | 1987-04-14 |