FIDE publishes March 1 ratings, Linares not counted
1 March 2010, 16.32 CET | By Peter Doggers | Filed under: Reports | Tags: FIDE, Ratings
Just a few days ago Veselin Topalov won the Linares tournament and narrowed the gap with Magnus Carlsen on the live rating list to just one point. On the March 1st FIDE rating list the Norwegian leads with a personal record of 2813 and is still 8 points ahead of Topalov.
It’s already an improvement to have six rating lists a year instead of four, but today we are reminded again of the fact that a monthly, or even weekly official list might be even better. While Carlsen and Topalov are just one (in fact 0.7) rating point away from each other on the “live list” by Hans Arild Runde (which you can also find in the far right column on this website), on the official list the distance is 8 points because Linares hasn’t been counted yet.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand lost his third place to Vladimir Kramnik; between them there are just three points. This means that the upcoming World Championship match in Sofia will be played between the current world’s number 2 and 4.
Vugar Gashimov was Azerbaijan’s number one player briefly, but he’s out of the top 10 again. His 6th place is now occupied by his compatriot Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who is back among the elite after a lesser period. Grischuk and Svidler climbed to spots number 7 and 8.
Vassily Ivanchuk is out of the top 10 again; he dropped slightly from 8 to 11. Hikaru Nakamura saw a strong period awarded with a 17th place. Alexander Morozevich’ decline continued; the former World’s number 2 can now be found on spot 24. There are now 37 players with a rating of 2700 or higher.
In the women’s list nothing much changed. The difference between Judit Polgar and Humpy Koneru decreased a bit further, from 68 to 60 points. Below you’ll find the new top 100, the top 100 women, the top 20 juniors and the top 20 girls. We give the first two lists including the changes with the previous lists. All data courtesy of FIDE.
FIDE MARCH 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 100 PLAYERS
Legend:
black color – player remained on the same position
green color – player moved up in the list
red color – player moved down in the list
blue color – player is new to the current Top list
Old represents player’s position in the previous period list
Rank Old Name Title Country Rating Games 1 1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2813 (+3) 13 (-3) 2 2 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2805 (0) 0 (-4) 3 4 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2790 (+2) 13 (-3) 4 3 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2787 (-3) 13 (+4) 5 5 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2782 (+1) 9 (-8) 6 11 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2760 (+19) 9 (-10) 7 15 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2756 (+20) 16 (+8) 8 10 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2750 (+6) 9 (-18) 9 6 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2750 (-11) 7 (-18) 10 9 Wang, Yue g CHN 2749 (0) 0 (-8) 11 8 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2748 (-1) 13 (0) 12 7 Gashimov, Vugar g AZE 2740 (-19) 7 (-14) 13 16 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2740 (+7) 7 (-6) 14 20 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2737 (+14) 13 (-6) 15 13 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2737 (0) 0 (-25) 16 14 Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2736 (0) 0 (-14) 17 28 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2735 (+27) 21 (+14) 18 12 Leko, Peter g HUN 2735 (-4) 13 (+4) 19 18 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2727 (-3) 9 (-12) 20 19 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2725 (-5) 14 (-3) 21 21 Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2725 (+5) 13 (+1) 22 22 Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2721 (+5) 7 (-8) 23 26 Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2720 (+10) 9 (+2) 24 17 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2715 (-17) 6 (-13) 25 23 Wang, Hao g CHN 2715 (0) 0 (-10) 26 24 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2714 (+1) 19 (+1) 27 25 Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2713 (+1) 13 (+9) 28 41 Vitiugov, Nikita g RUS 2710 (+18) 15 (+7) 29 29 Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2709 (+1) 10 (+8) 30 31 Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2708 (+3) 10 (0) 31 27 Navara, David g CZE 2708 (0) 0 (-15) 32 35 Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2705 (+8) 18 (+12) 33 39 Adams, Michael g ENG 2704 (+10) 10 (-7) 34 40 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2702 (+9) 28 (+22) 35 34 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2702 (0) 0 (-2) 36 30 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2701 (-4) 14 (0) 37 33 Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2700 (-3) 9 (-4) 38 36 Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2697 (0) 8 (+4) 39 37 Nielsen, Peter Heine g DEN 2697 (0) 0 (0) 40 32 Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2695 (-9) 9 (-6) 41 44 Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2691 (+4) 22 (+9) 42 93 Le, Quang Liem g VIE 2689 (+42) 35 (+15) 43 49 Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2688 (+10) 9 (-1) 44 57 Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2687 (+17) 9 (+5) 45 42 Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2687 (-5) 9 (+1) 46 83 Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2686 (+33) 33 (+29) 47 38 Short, Nigel D g ENG 2686 (-10) 13 (+6) 48 45 Miroshnichenko, Evgenij g UKR 2686 (0) 0 (0) 49 43 Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2684 (-8) 18 (+12) 50 52 Bu, Xiangzhi g CHN 2682 (+9) 18 (+12) 51 46 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2682 (0) 0 (-4) 52 51 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2680 (+5) 22 (+4) 53 48 Sargissian, Gabriel g ARM 2675 (-5) 15 (+3) 54 60 Kurnosov, Igor g RUS 2674 (+6) 9 (-1) 55 80 Ganguly, Surya Shekhar g IND 2672 (+18) 13 (+9) 56 55 Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2670 (0) 10 (-2) 57 56 Areshchenko, Alexander g UKR 2670 (0) 0 (-6) 58 53 Georgiev, Kiril g BUL 2669 (-3) 18 (+18) 59 50 Moiseenko, Alexander g UKR 2668 (-9) 9 (+9) 60 82 Grachev, Boris g RUS 2667 (+14) 27 (+9) 61 98 Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2667 (+24) 18 (+8) 62 72 Ni, Hua g CHN 2667 (+10) 13 (+3) 63 89 Inarkiev, Ernesto g RUS 2667 (+18) 9 (+3) 64 77 So, Wesley g PHI 2665 (+9) 22 (+14) 65 61 Najer, Evgeniy g RUS 2665 (0) 18 (+14) 66 91 Korobov, Anton g UKR 2663 (+15) 9 (-8) 67 68 Meier, Georg g GER 2663 (+5) 9 (-3) 68 47 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROU 2661 (-20) 13 (+1) 69 54 Harikrishna, P. g IND 2660 (-12) 27 (+27) 70 - Wojtaszek, Radoslaw g POL 2660 (+) 18 (+) 71 63 Riazantsev, Alexander g RUS 2660 (-1) 9 (+9) 72 84 Laznicka, Viktor g CZE 2659 (+7) 9 (-7) 73 66 Berkes, Ferenc g HUN 2659 (0) 0 (-9) 74 - Lautier, Joel g FRA 2658 (+) 0 (+) 75 65 Cheparinov, Ivan g BUL 2657 (-3) 19 (+4) 76 86 Khismatullin, Denis g RUS 2657 (+6) 18 (+2) 77 70 Beliavsky, Alexander G g SLO 2657 (0) 0 (-18) 78 69 Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2656 (-2) 18 (+8) 79 76 Avrukh, Boris g ISR 2656 (0) 0 (-8) 80 85 Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2655 (+3) 18 (+14) 81 62 Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2653 (-9) 13 (+11) 82 87 Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2653 (+3) 9 (0) 83 - Savchenko, Boris g RUS 2652 (+) 18 (+) 84 94 Pashikian, Arman g ARM 2652 (+5) 15 (+9) 85 78 Krasenkow, Michal g POL 2652 (-4) 9 (+9) 86 75 Roiz, Michael g ISR 2652 (-5) 6 (-2) 87 73 Smeets, Jan g NED 2651 (-6) 14 (+4) 88 90 Seirawan, Yasser g USA 2651 (+2) 1 (-1) 89 74 Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2650 (-7) 20 (+11) 90 79 Fridman, Daniel g GER 2650 (-4) 10 (+2) 91 - Zhou, Jianchao g CHN 2650 (+) 9 (+) 92 - Fedorchuk, Sergey A. g UKR 2649 (+) 18 (+) 93 58 Zhigalko, Sergei g BLR 2648 (-20) 29 (+16) 94 59 Smirin, Ilia g ISR 2647 (-21) 14 (+3) 95 - Gustafsson, Jan g GER 2646 (+) 10 (+) 96 - Andreikin, Dmitry g RUS 2645 (+) 9 (+) 97 81 Baklan, Vladimir g UKR 2644 (-10) 9 (+7) 98 96 Milov, Vadim g SUI 2644 (0) 0 (-6) 99 - Granda Zuniga, Julio E g PER 2643 (+) 18 (+) 100 67 Lastin, Alexander g RUS 2643 (-16) 9 (+5) 101 - Zvjaginsev, Vadim g RUS 2643 (+) 9 (+)
FIDE MARCH 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 100 WOMEN
Rank Old Name Title Country Rating Games 1 1 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2682 (0) 0 (-4) 2 2 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2622 (+8) 10 (+2) 3 3 Hou, Yifan g CHN 2570 (-20) 18 (+4) 4 4 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2555 (+10) 10 (+3) 5 5 Kosintseva, Nadezhda m RUS 2554 (+21) 18 (+9) 6 7 Muzychuk, Anna m SLO 2533 (+10) 13 (-12) 7 10 Kosintseva, Tatiana g RUS 2524 (+9) 18 (+10) 8 8 Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2524 (+1) 10 (0) 9 6 Cramling, Pia g SWE 2523 (-5) 21 (+17) 10 9 Lahno, Kateryna g UKR 2518 (0) 0 (-16) 11 11 Chiburdanidze, Maia g GEO 2514 (0) 0 (0) 12 13 Sebag, Marie g FRA 2506 (-4) 9 (+1) 13 16 Mkrtchian, Lilit m ARM 2503 (0) 0 (-9) 14 19 Javakhishvili, Lela m GEO 2500 (+7) 19 (+12) 15 12 Ju, Wenjun wg CHN 2500 (-12) 9 (+5) 16 17 Pogonina, Natalija wg RUS 2496 (-5) 7 (+7) 17 32 Zhukova, Natalia wg UKR 2492 (+30) 10 (+2) 18 18 Danielian, Elina m ARM 2491 (-4) 2 (-9) 19 15 Zhao, Xue g CHN 2490 (-14) 18 (+14) 20 - Galliamova, Alisa m RUS 2487 (+) 9 (+) 21 21 Hoang Thanh Trang g HUN 2487 (0) 0 (0) 22 22 Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2486 (+2) 9 (0) 23 20 Cmilyte, Viktorija m LTU 2485 (-4) 10 (+1) 24 14 Dzagnidze, Nana g GEO 2479 (-27) 20 (+1) 25 23 Ruan, Lufei wg CHN 2479 (0) 0 (-2) 26 24 Xu, Yuhua g CHN 2478 (0) 0 (-3) 27 28 Zhu, Chen g QAT 2476 (+6) 7 (+3) 28 25 Harika, Dronavalli m IND 2473 (+2) 24 (+13) 29 26 Gaponenko, Inna m UKR 2472 (+2) 5 (-11) 30 53 Melia, Salome m GEO 2467 (+36) 31 (+22) 31 - Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman m IND 2466 (+) 11 (+) 32 29 Qin, Kanying wg CHN 2466 (0) 0 (0) 33 41 Socko, Monika g POL 2465 (+15) 8 (-6) 34 31 Tan, Zhongyi wg CHN 2464 (0) 0 (-3) 35 37 Krush, Irina m USA 2461 (+6) 24 (+19) 36 30 Zatonskih, Anna m USA 2461 (-5) 10 (+10) 37 36 Rajlich, Iweta m POL 2459 (+4) 8 (-5) 38 42 Gunina, Valentina wf RUS 2457 (+9) 18 (+11) 39 34 Dembo, Yelena m GRE 2457 (0) 0 (-8) 40 - Polgar, Sofia m HUN 2457 (+) 0 (+) 41 35 Skripchenko, Almira m FRA 2456 (0) 0 (0) 42 38 Tairova, Elena m RUS 2455 (0) 0 (0) 43 40 Hunt, Harriet V m ENG 2452 (0) 0 (0) 44 39 Ushenina, Anna m UKR 2452 (0) 0 (-6) 45 33 Khotenashvili, Bela m GEO 2448 (-13) 13 (+5) 46 43 Korbut, Ekaterina m RUS 2448 (0) 0 (0) 47 27 Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan g SCO 2447 (-23) 10 (+1) 48 45 Atalik, Ekaterina m TUR 2445 (0) 0 (0) 49 44 Muzychuk, Mariya m UKR 2444 (-3) 13 (+13) 50 46 Shen, Yang wg CHN 2444 (0) 0 (-2) 51 48 Huang, Qian wg CHN 2439 (0) 0 (-3) 52 54 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina m RUS 2438 (+10) 9 (+5) 53 56 Moser, Eva m AUT 2437 (+13) 7 (-1) 54 50 Zhang, Xiaowen wg CHN 2437 (0) 0 (-24) 55 61 Cori T., Deysi wm PER 2434 (+22) 27 (-6) 56 59 Khurtsidze, Nino m GEO 2434 (+20) 13 (0) 57 51 Repkova, Eva m SVK 2434 (0) 0 (0) 58 47 Foisor, Cristina-Adela m ROU 2433 (-7) 9 (-1) 59 55 Munguntuul, Batkhuyag wg MGL 2428 (+1) 9 (-6) 60 57 Li, Ruofan m SIN 2423 (0) 0 (0) 61 58 Ovod, Evgenija m RUS 2421 (+6) 24 (+24) 62 49 Khukhashvili, Sopiko m GEO 2421 (-17) 16 (+9) 63 60 Vasilevich, Tatjana m UKR 2414 (0) 0 (0) 64 62 Peptan, Corina-Isabela m ROU 2411 (0) 0 (-7) 65 52 Romanko, Marina m RUS 2409 (-24) 27 (+21) 66 64 Matnadze, Ana m GEO 2406 (-1) 9 (0) 67 74 Zawadzka, Jolanta wg POL 2404 (+13) 8 (-11) 68 67 Jackova, Jana m CZE 2403 (0) 0 (-16) 69 68 Tsereteli, Tamar wg GEO 2402 (-1) 12 (+3) 70 70 Peng, Zhaoqin g NED 2401 (-1) 19 (+10) 71 72 Stockova, Zuzana m SVK 2401 (0) 0 (0) 72 73 Tania, Sachdev m IND 2393 (-5) 26 (+15) 73 71 Houska, Jovanka m ENG 2392 (-9) 19 (+1) 74 63 Savina, Anastasia wg RUS 2391 (-16) 27 (+7) 75 66 Milliet, Sophie m FRA 2391 (-13) 21 (+8) 76 75 Zaiatz, Elena m RUS 2391 (0) 8 (+4) 77 76 Alexandrova, Olga m ESP 2391 (0) 0 (0) 78 69 Zdebskaja, Natalia wg UKR 2390 (-12) 17 (+1) 79 80 Maric, Alisa m SRB 2387 (0) 0 (-9) 80 81 Turova, Irina m RUS 2386 (0) 0 (-8) 81 91 Lomineishvili, Maia m GEO 2385 (+14) 12 (+12) 82 84 Kovanova, Baira wg RUS 2385 (+1) 9 (+7) 83 82 Madl, Ildiko m HUN 2385 (0) 0 (-7) 84 90 Bodnaruk, Anastasia wg RUS 2384 (+12) 27 (+25) 85 83 Bojkovic, Natasa m SRB 2384 (0) 0 (-9) 86 86 Pokorna, Regina wg SVK 2382 (0) 0 (0) 87 85 Shadrina, Tatiana wg RUS 2382 (0) 0 (-9) 88 87 Galojan, Lilit wg ARM 2380 (+6) 9 (+1) 89 78 Stepovaia, Tatiana wg RUS 2375 (-14) 8 (0) 90 77 Matveeva, Svetlana m RUS 2373 (-18) 9 (+9) 91 93 Michna, Marta wg GER 2373 (+3) 7 (-1) 92 92 Gara, Anita m HUN 2370 (0) 0 (-17) 93 79 Molchanova, Tatjana wm RUS 2369 (-19) 16 (+8) 94 94 Vajda, Szidonia m HUN 2369 (0) 0 (-17) 95 65 Karavade, Eesha wg IND 2366 (-39) 25 (+14) 96 96 Goletiani, Rusudan m USA 2366 (0) 0 (0) 97 89 Majdan, Joanna wg POL 2364 (-10) 8 (+1) 98 - Lanchava, Tea m NED 2364 (+) 2 (+) 99 97 Girya, Olga wg RUS 2362 (-3) 9 (-14) 100 98 Gaprindashvili, Nona g GEO 2360 (0) 0 (-9)
FIDE MARCH 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 20 JUNIORS
Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2813 13 1990 2 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2727 9 1990 3 Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2725 13 1990 4 Le, Quang Liem g VIE 2689 35 1991 5 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2680 22 1992 6 So, Wesley g PHI 2665 22 1993 7 Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2656 18 1990 8 Andreikin, Dmitry g RUS 2645 9 1990 9 Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son g VIE 2642 16 1990 10 Negi, Parimarjan g IND 2634 28 1993 11 Kuzubov, Yuriy g UKR 2634 0 1990 12 Giri, Anish g NED 2624 23 1994 13 Edouard, Romain g FRA 2617 28 1990 14 Hammer, Jon Ludvig g NOR 2617 18 1990 15 Khairullin, Ildar g RUS 2617 9 1990 16 Howell, David W L g ENG 2612 22 1990 17 Kovalyov, Anton g ARG 2610 9 1992 18 Saric, Ivan g CRO 2607 11 1990 19 Safarli, Eltaj g AZE 2606 27 1992 20 Sjugirov, Sanan g RUS 2602 27 1993
FIDE MARCH 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 20 GIRLS
Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 Hou, Yifan g CHN 2570 18 1994 2 Muzychuk, Anna m SLO 2533 13 1990 3 Ju, Wenjun wg CHN 2500 9 1991 4 Harika, Dronavalli m IND 2473 24 1991 5 Tan, Zhongyi wg CHN 2464 0 1991 6 Tairova, Elena m RUS 2455 0 1991 7 Muzychuk, Mariya m UKR 2444 13 1992 8 Cori T., Deysi wm PER 2434 27 1993 9 Savina, Anastasia wg RUS 2391 27 1992 10 Bodnaruk, Anastasia wg RUS 2384 27 1992 11 Girya, Olga wg RUS 2362 9 1991 12 Severiukhina, Zoja wm RUS 2355 18 1990 13 Pustovoitova, Daria RUS 2350 18 1994 14 Muminova, Nafisa wm UZB 2338 22 1990 15 Kashlinskaya, Alina wg RUS 2332 18 1993 16 Tsatsalashvili, Keti wm GEO 2326 13 1992 17 Paikidze, Nazi wm GEO 2322 9 1993 18 Padmini, Rout wm IND 2319 26 1994 19 Ding, Yixin wf CHN 2315 0 1991 20 Rakic, Marija wm SRB 2306 0 1990
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Le, Quang Liem is pretty amazing. Up from 93 to 42. And the most games played of any junior.
Or senior! Missed that.
The diffrence between top man and top woman rating is about 250 elo !!!
Any explanation on that?
it’s only about 130 i guess
@Zablakob
You meant: between top junior and top girl?
No excuse exists for FIDE not having a live rating system in this day and age. Then again, there’s no excuse for FIDE…
Zeblakob: A few. But mentioning them usually fails to get recognized and/ort alerts trolls (http://www.chessvibes.com/columns/carlsen-in-time-and-the-art-of-good-journalism/#comments)
I never knew that besides Carlsen, Norway has another promising 26+ junior.
Why are “live” ratings important?
What does a difference of less than one ELO point really say?
I agree, value of a live list compared to three-monthly or bi-monthly is insignificant imo.
As to the question of whether or not a certain tournament should be included in the current list or the next one; answer is simple: do not ever make exceptions to the rule. But that of course is too simple for FIDE. (Occasionally there used to be some trumped up controversy over this.)
live ratings are really nice, but for the fun in my opinion. I don’t think we should have live, weekly or monthly lists. 3-4 months is enough in my mind.
What’s wrong with a live-rating (say weekly).
Look at tennis, it can’t be that difficult. And you always have a up-to-date number one.
The game of chess is conducted in cohorent tournaments or individual or team matches. Runde´s way with his “Live-rating” is to rate the players from game to game. That can from time to time be quite entertaining to follow, but is rather artificial and not to be taken seriously.
The optimal way is to rate every tournament immidiately after it is finished. Perhaps difficult to implement, but absolutely possible.