Topalov tops new FIDE ratings, now officially
For the first time since January 1 (or rather March 31) 2007, Veselin Topalov is the highest rated player in the world. On the new FIDE rating list, published yesterday, Magnus Carlsen is number 4 and not 3 as in Hans Arild Runde's live list.
Again, FIDE has published its new rating list a few days before the official date. Since yesterday their front page heads "Topalov Regains Top Spot", something the chess fans have known for two weeks already thanks to the famous "live list" which you can also find in the far right column on this website.
Veselin Topalov's new FIDE rating is 2791 - still 22 points below his personal record by the way. After becoming the FIDE World Champion in San Luis in 2005, he also won the 2006 Corus Chess Tournament joint with Anand. On the April 2006 list he was the world's number one for the first time, a position he "successfully defended" till and including the January 2007 list.
In a period where the first six players of the world are of almost equal strength, Topalov's great fighting spirit in Bilbao made the difference for the current list. At some point no less than four players had a chance to claim the highest ELO rating in October, but Topalov's last-round win against Ivanchuk decided matters.
Although he did not play in Bilbao, Alexander Morozevich managed to keep his second spot. On the last list he had the same rating as his compatriot Kramnik; this time he's clear second, but having just one point more than Vassily Ivanchuk and Magnus Carlsen.
On the live list Carlsen has 2786,1 and Ivanchuk 2785,6 which both rounds off to 2786. For FIDE, the one who has played the most games "wins" (and when Ivanchuk is involved, he's usually the one!) And so there's only a difference of five points in the top four this time.
It's a bit ironic that two weeks before their World Championship match in Bonn, Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik have dropped to 5th and 6th place, while they were sharing the first spot only three lists ago! Both have had one very bad tournament this summer (Kramnik in Dortmund; Anand in Bilbao) and of course there's a connection with the upcoming match.
Levon Aronian is back in the top 10; he won 20 points and climbed from 12th to 7th place. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov lost 11 points and dropped from 8th to 14th place. Peter Svidler lost "touch" with the top 10, dropping from 11th to 17th.
Let's go to the new stars. After winning the first Grand Prix tournament in Baku (shared with Gashimov and Carlsen) and finishing shared third in Sochi, Wang Yue's fantastic 8.5 out of 10 at the NH Chess Tournament lifted him up to the 11th place, with a rating of 2736 (2740 on the live list, by the way). One spot higher is Dmitry Jakovenko, who has one rating point more.
As we predicted a week after the July list was published, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is France's new number one: he'll turn 18 on October 21st (the same generation as Carlsen and Karjakin!) but he's already in the world's top 25, rated 2716 now, 11 points more than Etienne Bacrot.
In the October list we see that there are now 32 players with a FIDE rating above 2700. These include two more new members of the elite club: Hikaru Nakamura and Sergei Rublevsky. New or back in the top 100 are Alexander Riazantsev, (2656), Boris Savchenko (2648), Fabiano Caruana (2640), Nikita Vitiugov (2638), Alexander Graf (2636), Jan Gustafsson (2634) and Vadim Malakhatko (2633).
In the women's list, Judit Polgar was, is and will be the number one - she's still rated 2711 after she didn't play a rated game this summer. Actually Polgar should have been mentioned in the above (men's) section; since she never plays women's events she might even prefer to be called "the world's number 27"!
World championship semi-finalist Humpy Koneru lost four rating points in the last three months but this didn't threaten her supremacy in the "rest of the ladies" list. We do have a new number three: 14-year-old Hou Yifan just keeps on rollin' and won 21 points this time, overtaking former world champion and compatriot Xie Jun by four points.
The new world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk won fifteen points but only went up from 10th to 8th place.
Below you'll find the new top 100, the top 100 women, the top 20 juniors and the top 20 girls. We give the lists including the changes with the previous list. (It should also be mentioned when FIDE is doing good things and actually the ratings section on their website has greatly improved!)
FIDE OCTOBER 2008 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 5 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2791 (+14) 10 (0) 2 2 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2787 (-1) 9 (-11) 3 4 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2786 (+5) 50 (+25) 4 6 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2786 (+11) 31 (+15) 5 1 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2783 (-15) 10 (+8) 6 3 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2772 (-16) 16 (+16) 7 12 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2757 (+20) 23 (+12) 8 7 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2751 (+7) 23 (-8) 9 10 Leko, Peter g HUN 2747 (+6) 16 (+16) 10 24 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2737 (+28) 39 (+19) 11 29 Wang, Yue g CHN 2736 (+32) 23 (-5) 12 13 Adams, Michael g ENG 2734 (-1) 16 (-4) 13 16 Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2732 (+9) 12 (-41) 14 8 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2731 (-11) 16 (-7) 15 15 Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2730 (+3) 24 (-3) 16 17 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2729 (+6) 22 (-6) 17 11 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2727 (-11) 24 (-8) 18 9 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2726 (-15) 34 (+23) 19 21 Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2720 (+4) 26 (+3) 20 18 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2719 (-1) 27 (+17) 21 25 Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2719 (+11) 15 (-4) 22 19 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2719 (+1) 14 (+4) 23 14 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2719 (-9) 13 (-8) 24 39 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2716 (+35) 30 (-5) 25 26 Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2715 (+7) 30 (+18) 26 23 Bu, Xiangzhi g CHN 2714 (+4) 9 (-16) 27 22 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2711 (0) 0 (-3) 28 27 Ni, Hua g CHN 2710 (+5) 5 (-23) 29 33 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2705 (+14) 23 (-14) 30 31 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2704 (+7) 6 (-21) 31 20 Gashimov, Vugar g AZE 2703 (-14) 27 (-7) 32 30 Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2702 (+3) 14 (+4) 33 36 Cheparinov, Ivan g BUL 2696 (+9) 28 (+5) 34 34 Wang, Hao g CHN 2696 (+5) 9 (-19) 35 38 Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2694 (+10) 9 (-9) 36 79 Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2686 (+41) 56 (+14) 37 32 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROU 2684 (-8) 19 (-7) 38 49 Najer, Evgeniy g RUS 2682 (+12) 20 (-18) 39 37 Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2682 (-4) 9 (-24) 40 28 Milov, Vadim g SUI 2681 (-24) 9 (-7) 41 48 Efimenko, Zahar g UKR 2680 (+10) 10 (-30) 42 45 Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2679 (+6) 5 (-12) 43 97 Moiseenko, Alexander g UKR 2678 (+46) 40 (+13) 44 54 Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2678 (+13) 17 (-25) 45 40 Roiz, Michael g ISR 2677 (-3) 32 (0) 46 44 Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2676 (+3) 12 (-29) 47 35 Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2675 (-14) 21 (+10) 48 60 Postny, Evgeny g ISR 2674 (+13) 40 (+5) 49 43 Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2672 (-2) 11 (-12) 50 41 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2672 (-7) 5 (-20) 51 73 Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2670 (+20) 20 (-20) 52 64 Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2670 (+13) 5 (-12) 53 42 Inarkiev, Ernesto g RUS 2669 (-6) 22 (-7) 54 51 Nikolic, Predrag g BIH 2669 (0) 0 (-28) 55 75 Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2664 (+14) 22 (-5) 56 55 Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2664 (-1) 12 (+3) 57 56 Areshchenko, Alexander g UKR 2664 (0) 0 (-40) 58 58 Tkachiev, Vladislav g FRA 2664 (0) 0 (-18) 59 52 Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2663 (-5) 5 (-21) 60 71 Nielsen, Peter Heine g DEN 2662 (+10) 10 (-32) 61 47 Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2659 (-12) 29 (-2) 62 53 Harikrishna, P. g IND 2659 (-9) 12 (-3) 63 57 Ivanisevic, Ivan g SRB 2658 (-6) 42 (+11) 64 66 Avrukh, Boris g ISR 2657 (+1) 16 (-19) 65 - Riazantsev, Alexander g RUS 2656 (+) 32 (+) 66 85 Grachev, Boris g RUS 2653 (+13) 22 (0) 67 87 Lastin, Alexander g RUS 2651 (+12) 20 (-9) 68 70 Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2651 (-3) 19 (-9) 69 72 Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2651 (0) 0 (-3) 70 82 Guseinov, Gadir g AZE 2650 (+7) 20 (-16) 71 63 Sokolov, Ivan g NED 2650 (-8) 11 (-16) 72 90 Smirin, Ilia g ISR 2649 (+12) 27 (+5) 73 98 Zhang, Zhong g SIN 2649 (+17) 20 (-3) 74 - Savchenko, Boris g RUS 2648 (+) 43 (+) 75 67 Khenkin, Igor g GER 2647 (-8) 20 (-25) 76 69 Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2647 (-8) 15 (+8) 77 62 Tregubov, Pavel V. g RUS 2646 (-12) 12 (-24) 78 59 Zvjaginsev, Vadim g RUS 2646 (-17) 11 (+1) 79 77 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2646 (0) 0 (-21) 80 80 Berkes, Ferenc g HUN 2645 (0) 27 (-4) 81 46 Georgiev, Kiril g BUL 2645 (-26) 23 (-9) 82 50 Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2644 (-26) 30 (+9) 83 99 Sadvakasov, Darmen g KAZ 2643 (+11) 16 (+7) 84 61 Sargissian, Gabriel g ARM 2642 (-18) 12 (-21) 85 68 Short, Nigel D g ENG 2642 (-13) 11 (-14) 86 95 Sakaev, Konstantin g RUS 2640 (+6) 11 (-11) 87 - Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2640 (+) 10 (+) 88 84 Kazhgaleyev, Murtas g KAZ 2640 (-1) 9 (-10) 89 - Vitiugov, Nikita g RUS 2638 (+) 21 (+) 90 - Graf, Alexander g GER 2636 (+) 32 (+) 91 83 Zhang, Pengxiang g CHN 2636 (-7) 4 (-20) 92 102 Vescovi, Giovanni g BRA 2635 (+4) 9 (-15) 93 74 Amonatov, Farrukh g TJK 2634 (-16) 29 (+1) 94 101 Gurevich, Mikhail g TUR 2634 (+3) 19 (-12) 95 86 Nyback, Tomi g FIN 2634 (-5) 18 (-16) 96 - Gustafsson, Jan g GER 2634 (+) 12 (+) 97 96 Seirawan, Yasser g USA 2634 (0) 0 (-2) 98 - Malakhatko, Vadim g BEL 2633 (+) 69 (+) 99 76 Navara, David g CZE 2633 (-13) 22 (-21) 100 91 Istratescu, Andrei g ROU 2633 (-3) 9 (-23)
FIDE OCTOBER 2008 RATING LIST: TOP 100 WOMEN
Rank Old Name Title Country Rating Games 1 1 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2711 (0) 0 (-3) 2 2 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2618 (-4) 15 (-13) 3 4 Hou, Yifan wg CHN 2578 (+21) 40 (+5) 4 3 Xie, Jun g CHN 2574 (0) 0 (0) 5 6 Cramling, Pia g SWE 2550 (+6) 23 (+2) 6 5 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2548 (-2) 15 (-13) 7 7 Sebag, Marie g FRA 2533 (+4) 7 (-8) 8 10 Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2525 (+15) 21 (+19) 9 8 Zhao, Xue g CHN 2518 (-4) 4 (-31) 10 16 Danielian, Elina m ARM 2513 (+18) 27 (+5) 11 9 Kosintseva, Tatiana m RUS 2513 (+2) 6 (-3) 12 11 Cmilyte, Viktorija m LTU 2512 (+4) 14 (-13) 13 13 Muzychuk, Anna m SLO 2508 (+4) 19 (-11) 14 36 Dzagnidze, Nana m GEO 2503 (+45) 45 (+16) 15 22 Ushenina, Anna m UKR 2496 (+20) 15 (-13) 16 14 Ruan, Lufei wg CHN 2496 (-3) 6 (0) 17 15 Zhu, Chen g QAT 2496 (0) 0 (-14) 18 18 Chiburdanidze, Maia g GEO 2489 (0) 0 (0) 19 12 Lahno, Kateryna g UKR 2488 (-19) 24 (+4) 20 17 Zhukova, Natalia wg UKR 2488 (-1) 11 (-9) 21 19 Hoang Thanh Trang g HUN 2483 (-4) 13 (-18) 22 20 Xu, Yuhua g CHN 2477 (-6) 11 (-6) 23 25 Pogonina, Natalija wg RUS 2474 (+5) 12 (-8) 24 26 Gaponenko, Inna m UKR 2473 (+5) 52 (+15) 25 31 Javakhishvili, Lela m GEO 2473 (+12) 11 (-23) 26 21 Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2471 (-10) 13 (-30) 27 33 Kosintseva, Nadezhda m RUS 2468 (+8) 6 (-1) 28 29 Hunt, Harriet V m ENG 2462 (0) 0 (-12) 29 30 Qin, Kanying wg CHN 2462 (0) 0 (-5) 30 32 Harika, Dronavalli m IND 2461 (0) 38 (+16) 31 35 Korbut, Ekaterina m RUS 2459 (0) 0 (-9) 32 27 Skripchenko, Almira m FRA 2455 (-8) 13 (-15) 33 28 Peng, Zhaoqin g NED 2455 (-7) 9 (-21) 34 24 Krush, Irina m USA 2452 (-18) 8 (-23) 35 39 Shen, Yang wg CHN 2450 (+5) 8 (-10) 36 37 Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan m SCO 2448 (0) 0 (-7) 37 43 Dembo, Yelena m GRE 2446 (+15) 18 (-2) 38 40 Mkrtchian, Lilit m ARM 2443 (+7) 12 (-5) 39 38 Zatonskih, Anna m USA 2440 (-6) 10 (-21) 40 41 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina m RUS 2439 (+4) 5 (-30) 41 55 Lomineishvili, Maia m GEO 2437 (+23) 15 (+4) 42 56 Muzychuk, Mariya wg UKR 2436 (+23) 30 (-1) 43 23 Socko, Monika m POL 2434 (-39) 32 (-6) 44 46 Atalik, Ekaterina m TUR 2432 (+6) 31 (+3) 45 61 Peptan, Corina-Isabela m ROU 2430 (+21) 36 (+17) 46 54 Hagarova, Zuzana m SVK 2430 (+15) 9 (-13) 47 44 Huang, Qian wg CHN 2430 (0) 0 (-8) 48 53 Ovod, Evgenija m RUS 2429 (+13) 7 (-12) 49 45 Shadrina, Tatiana wg RUS 2429 (0) 0 (-9) 50 47 Li, Ruofan wg SIN 2426 (+1) 11 (-14) 51 42 Tania, Sachdev m IND 2425 (-7) 12 (-6) 52 51 Tairova, Elena m RUS 2422 (+5) 11 (-7) 53 48 Bojkovic, Natasa m SRB 2420 (-3) 8 (-3) 54 49 Zdebskaja, Natalia wg UKR 2419 (-3) 7 (-26) 55 57 Khurtsidze, Nino m GEO 2417 (+4) 14 (+14) 56 60 Matnadze, Ana m GEO 2411 (0) 40 (+23) 57 58 Matveeva, Svetlana m RUS 2411 (-1) 4 (-25) 58 52 Melia, Salome m GEO 2410 (-6) 43 (+23) 59 64 Mongontuul, Bathuyag wg MGL 2410 (+4) 4 (-26) 60 62 Khukhashvili, Sopiko m GEO 2409 (+1) 13 (-7) 61 63 Wang, Pin wg CHN 2407 (0) 0 (-5) 62 59 Maric, Alisa m SRB 2405 (-7) 25 (+25) 63 50 Rajlich, Iweta m POL 2404 (-13) 40 (+20) 64 67 Repkova, Eva m SVK 2400 (-3) 18 (-10) 65 66 Michna, Marta wg GER 2399 (-5) 18 (+7) 66 65 Houska, Jovanka m ENG 2399 (-6) 11 (0) 67 - Borsuk, Angela wg ISR 2398 (+) 35 (+) 68 86 Romanko, Marina wg RUS 2398 (+24) 20 (0) 69 71 Ju, Wenjun CHN 2397 (+8) 4 (-11) 70 73 Tan, Zhongyi CHN 2395 (+8) 4 (-14) 71 - Nadig, Kruttika wm IND 2387 (+) 62 (+) 72 - Karavade, Eesha wg IND 2386 (+) 46 (+) 73 75 Stepovaia, Tatiana wg RUS 2386 (+3) 12 (-17) 74 76 Alexandrova, Olga m UKR 2383 (0) 0 (-9) 75 69 Bodnaruk, Anastasia wf RUS 2381 (-13) 21 (-24) 76 79 Gunina, Valentina wf RUS 2381 (0) 0 (-24) 77 78 Turova, Irina m RUS 2381 (0) 0 (-29) 78 80 Wang, Yu A. m CHN 2381 (0) 0 (-19) 79 - Zozulia, Anna m BEL 2380 (+) 36 (+) 80 68 Vajda, Szidonia m HUN 2380 (-17) 20 (-21) 81 96 Kovanova, Baira wg RUS 2379 (+20) 8 (-12) 82 70 Zawadzka, Jolanta wg POL 2378 (-11) 36 (+19) 83 82 Kononenko, Tatiana m UKR 2377 (0) 0 (0) 84 74 Moser, Eva m AUT 2376 (-7) 20 (-24) 85 101 Pokorna, Regina wg SVK 2376 (+19) 9 (-18) 86 72 Madl, Ildiko m HUN 2376 (-11) 4 (-28) 87 85 Kachiani-Gersinska, Ketino m GER 2371 (-3) 2 (-27) 88 87 Nemcova, Katerina wg CZE 2369 (-3) 18 (-5) 89 93 Vasilkova, Svetlana wm RUS 2369 (+8) 8 (-20) 90 91 Vasilevich, Tatjana m UKR 2368 (+3) 8 (-17) 91 89 Zimina, Olga wg ITA 2368 (0) 0 (-25) 92 100 Milliet, Sophie wg FRA 2366 (+9) 20 (-13) 93 94 Lujan, Carolina m ARG 2366 (+5) 18 (-7) 94 90 Chistiakova, Tamara wf RUS 2366 (0) 0 (0) 95 - Foisor, Cristina Adela wg ROU 2365 (+) 36 (+) 96 - Sedina, Elena m ITA 2365 (+) 13 (+) 97 - Zaiatz, Elena m RUS 2364 (+) 9 (+) 98 - Dworakowska, Joanna m POL 2363 (+) 9 (+) 99 81 Fierro Baquero, Martha L. m ECU 2361 (-18) 17 (-8) 100 - Gvetadze, Sopio m GEO 2361 (+) 15 (+)
FIDE OCTOBER 2008 RATING LIST: TOP 20 JUNIORS
Rank Old Name Title Country Rating Games 1 1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2786 (+11) 31 (+15) 2 2 Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2730 (+3) 24 (-3) 3 4 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2716 (+35) 30 (-5) 4 3 Wang, Hao g CHN 2696 (+5) 9 (-19) 5 5 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2640 (+10) 10 (-17) 6 6 Mamedov, Rauf g AZE 2631 (+4) 31 (+11) 7 17 Kuzubov, Yuriy g UKR 2622 (+44) 33 (+4) 8 13 Li, Chao b g CHN 2622 (+32) 33 (-7) 9 10 Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2616 (+14) 18 (0) 10 9 Zhou, Jianchao g CHN 2612 (+8) 9 (-10) 11 18 So, Wesley g PHI 2610 (+33) 69 (+35) 12 7 Rodshtein, Maxim g ISR 2609 (+4) 42 (+13) 13 8 Andreikin, Dmitry g RUS 2603 (-1) 22 (-11) 14 - Negi, Parimarjan g IND 2597 (+) 36 (+) 15 - Howell, David W L g ENG 2593 (+) 32 (+) 16 15 Zhigalko, Sergei g BLR 2592 (+9) 22 (+11) 17 11 Laznicka, Viktor g CZE 2591 (-10) 13 (-29) 18 19 Le, Quang Liem g VIE 2583 (+6) 22 (+11) 19 - Fier, Alexandr g BRA 2581 (+) 31 (+) 20 - Gareev, Timur g UZB 2581 (+) 13 (+)
FIDE OCTOBER 2008 RATING LIST: TOP 20 GIRLS Due to technical problems, for this list unfortunately at the moment we cannot present a comparison with the previous list
Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 Hou, Yifan wg CHN 2578 40 1994 2 Muzychuk, Anna m SLO 2508 19 1990 3 Lahno, Kateryna g UKR 2488 24 1989 4 Harika, Dronavalli m IND 2461 38 1991 5 Shen, Yang wg CHN 2450 8 1989 6 Muzychuk, Mariya wg UKR 2436 30 1992 7 Tairova, Elena m RUS 2422 11 1991 8 Ju, Wenjun CHN 2397 4 1991 9 Tan, Zhongyi CHN 2395 4 1991 10 Nadig, Kruttika wm IND 2387 62 1988 11 Bodnaruk, Anastasia wf RUS 2381 21 1992 12 Gunina, Valentina wf RUS 2381 0 1989 13 Nemcova, Katerina wg CZE 2369 18 1990 14 Vasilkova, Svetlana wm RUS 2369 8 1988 15 Zhang, Xiaowen wm CHN 2357 21 1989 16 Dolzhikova, Kateryna wm UKR 2351 22 1988 17 Khotenashvili, Bela wg GEO 2350 13 1988 18 Stock, Lara wm CRO 2346 0 1992 19 Nebolsina, Vera wg RUS 2340 2 1989 20 Vojinovic, Jovana wm MNE 2332 24 1992 21 Girya, Olga wf RUS 2332 9 1991


















Comments
Michel
3 years 4 months ago
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And who dropped out the top-100? Our own Loek.....
With a good Olympics he can show what he can and make a comeback!
MJol
3 years 4 months ago
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FIDE should implement a weekly update ranking list - NOT every 3 months!
sup
3 years 4 months ago
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minor: Hou Yifan's rank in the women's ranklist has no indication that it has gone up (except from the numbers, of course).
Christos
3 years 4 months ago
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there is no indication with green or red arrows for players who have stayed at the same rank OR who have only moved up or down only one spot.
ChessGirl
3 years 4 months ago
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I don?Ǭ¥t know how Loek even got to 100 in the first place xD
MvE
3 years 4 months ago
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He was just in time, before Russia, Ukraina, China and India uncorked vast quantities of fresh, young, bloodthirsty players, tumbling over each other in their race for a high ranking. Loek sneaked in and out.
Janis Nisii
3 years 4 months ago
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Peter, it's the overall list not the men's one. I know I know...but still...
Theo
3 years 4 months ago
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KingLoek is a great talented player. Too bad he didn't had the Russian 'aparat' behind him. Otherwise he would be 2750 for sure!
But he is still a great player! And being top 100 or being nr 120, it doesn't matter much. It is still world class! For sure!
semipatz
3 years 4 months ago
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"Too bad he didn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t had the Russian ?¢‚ǨÀúaparat?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ behind him. Otherwise he would be 2750 for sure!"
Until his recent skid, van Wely always used to get invited ahead of higher-rated players to play in supertournaments where almost all the other players were a good deal stronger. I'm not sure exactly why, but maybe he's better connected than you're suggesting.
He DOES play exciting chess, though.
TC
3 years 4 months ago
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Wow.......... 2633 required just get into top 100.............. Chess is so competitive now a days......... it is great for Chess!!
ChessGirl
3 years 4 months ago
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HAHAHAHA 2750 or more??? Definitely NOT. Are you suggesting that all the players above him in the list have the Russian aparat with them? Lots of them (i.e. Kamsky) don?Ǭ¥t seem to agree. I can?Ǭ¥t say that Luke is a bad player, I?Ǭ¥m just saying that, like semipatz says, I can see him too frequently on top-level tournaments for his rating, and personally I don?Ǭ¥t think he?Ǭ¥s so good.
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