New FIDE ratings: Anand 1st, Carlsen 5th

The new FIDE ratings have just been published at the FIDE website. World champion Viswanathan Anand is topping the list alone, with a rating of 2803. Magnus Carlsen is no longer a talent, he’s the 5th best player in the world. full story »

New FIDE ratings: Kramnik and Anand share 1st

The new FIDE ratings have just been published at the FIDE website. World champion Viswanathan Anand is topping the list alone, with a rating of 2803. Magnus Carlsen is no longer a talent, he’s the 5th best player in the world. full story »

Anand passes 2800 mark

We’re back home and here too the laptop is opened of course. The latest news is the appearance of the new rating list. He was already the world’s no. 1 and after Mexico naturally he still is, but yesterday Vishy Anand also passed the 2800 mark again. His new rating is 2801. Second is Vassily Ivanchuk, who had a fantastic chess summer. full story »

The new ratings

Ratings, ratings. It’s more and more unclear to me whether they’re a curse or a blessing but the fact remains that for almost every chess player no subject is more interesting than the four-digit number next to the players’ names. So today we pay some attention to the new list, the FIDE ratings of July 2007. The original list, published a few days ago, just like the last one in April contained a number of errors (e.g. Michael Adams appearing twice on it!) but today the corrected version has been published. full story »

Topalov still no. 1 - no, Anand!

Update April 2, 12.32 CET: as was already noted in the comments below, Anand is now indeed the no. 1 on the rating list on the FIDE website!

Update April 1, 12.40 CET: Chessbase claims FIDE will ‘correct’ the April list as soon as possible by including Morelia/Linares and Gibraltar. So I guess we can expect an update on de FIDE website in the coming days.

The FIDE rating list of April 2007 has been published. Surprise, surprise: Veselin Topalov is still the no. 1. He was overtaken by Viswananthan Anand during Morelia/Linares, but this tournament was not calculated. A strange thing, if you consider that this tournament always counted for the April list in recent years. Mark Crowther, who noticed that Gibraltar wasn’t included either, even considers it to be an error. But stricktly speaking, it’s even stranger that Linares was always included in the April list, since the deadline for a rating list is always one month. In other words: FIDE is suddenly stricktly obeying to their own rules. Not. As was remarked on Mig’s blog, some other tournaments that ended after March 1st, were included… full story »