But even if Kramnik dropped out of 10, I mean... we all have better and worse moments in our careers, and chess players are no exception. I mean, if you look at the current rating list, Karjakin is 29, Svidler 27, Adams 24!!! And they were above 15 for most of the year. Of course those who are between first and fifth place don?Ǭ¥t usually change so much (Anand, Topa, Moro, Kramnik, Carlsen, Aronian, Ivanchuk lately...) but I think that on the first 20-25 places positions fluctuate so much, because they are all really good.
What I want to say is that of course ratings are really important and a very good reference for a general approach as to how good a player is, but in my opinion they are overvalued.

@HJ: How is that possible? I don?Ǭ¥t understand how it could happen, apparently both moves are recorded in Chessbase, but how can the second one just randomly disappear?

@Hj Corrected. Btw I presume the 'bug' (is it a bug?) hasn't been corrected yet in Chessbase 10.

@HJ: Try to delete and recreate your search booster, that might fix it. I've experienced the same problem several times, the search booster is almost a necessary feature for me, but is not completely reliable. Possibly one should always delete and recreate it when adding new games, rather than just updating it!?

@ Allan. @Chessgirl @Peter

"Possibly one should always delete and recreate it when adding new games, rather than just updating it!?"

I may hope not. That's not really an option. By the way my search booster was new (!). In Chessbase 10 when adding new games automatically the searchbooster gets an "update". I still don't understand how it could happen, chessgirl. Hopefully it's not a bug.
Mabe someone else knows the answer?

@HJ: Okay, why not? I doubt it's much slower, if at all. Worked on my computer (this once, haven't checked it before) - and I'm also using CB 10 btw., hence the suggestion to delete & recreate instead of updating. Didn't fix the bug in the Find Novelty function though.

@Allan
It took 17 minutes to recreate the searchbooster of the megabase, but unfortunately same story.
Thx for your reaction anyway.

In fact, in the game Radjabov-Kasimdzhanov only 22. Ne4 was the real novelty, and hardly a new move to either of the players, as it's Rybka 3's first choice. The position before Ne4 had occured during the Olympiad this year, where Dominguez - also against Kasim - played Nd5 instead. I was in fact playing right next to them and I think Kasim more or less blitzed out the first 25 moves already back then.

Hehe Radjabov has overtaken Kramnik in the Live Arild-Runde Ratings!

Leko and Jakovenko are not far behind Kramnik either, and a strong tournament here by both of them could result in Kramnik placing in a measly 9th place on the next FIDE rating list.

@Allen You're completely right. Apparently there's a bug in Chessbase's "Search novelty" function (Shift-F6) as it doesn't handle move transpositions properly. By searching for a novelty in Radjabov-Kasimdzhanov (played with 12.h4 h5 13.Kb1 Rb8) the Olympiad game (which went 12.Kb1 Re8 13.h4 h5) doesn't pop up, but it does (of course) when searching for the position after 16.Bh6. Mr Friedel himself learnt me about the Shift-F6 option in January this year, which I didn't know yet after years of using the program, but apparently I have to get back to my old habit of searching for positions only!

Kramnik will not drop out of top 10 at least not in the next rating list

@Peter. the game Dominguez Perez,L (2719) - Kasimdzhanov,R (2672) [B78]
38th Olympiad Dresden GER (2), 14.11.2008 was metioned by Allen, where 16?¢‚Ǩ¬¶Kh7 was tried for the first time.

But strange story indeed!
- Searching for games after 15. .. Nxh5 in Radjabov-Kasimdzhanov =
8 games in Chessbase (also the game Dominguez-Kasimdzhanov, Dresden
Olympiad 2008) .

-Searching after 16. Bh6 = only two games (and NOT Dominguez-Kasimdzhanov, Dresden Olympiad 2008)

- Searching after 16. .. Kh7= One game ...... yes......Dominguez-Kasimdzhanov, Dresden Olympiad 2008...........

hmmmm?!