The New FIDE Rating Lists
The lists are published quarterly, and with a new quarter, there are new ratings - here's the page to start your browsing. Here's the top 10:
1. Veselin Topalov 2783
2. Viswanathan Anand 2779
3. Vladimir Kramnik 2766
4. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2754
5. Vassily Ivanchuk 2750
6. Peter Leko 2749
7. Levon Aronian 2744
8. Alexander Morozevich 2741
9. Michael Adams 2735
10.Boris Gelfand 2733
What can we learn from this list? For starters, it's a good thing if your first name starts with a "V". A Very good thing. Second, there isn't any correlation between having a really high rating and being involved in the current world championship cycle: Topalov, Mamedyarov and Ivanchuk will be watching from the sidelines.
Other notes: the big winners on this list are Kramnik (+16 points) and Mamedyarov (+26!!), while the big loser - you might say his rating points went down the...oh, never mind - was Topalov, who lost 30 points (16 against Kramnik, and another 14 in the ensuing Essent tournament won by Mamedyarov and Polgar).
The top 3 women: Judit Polgar (2727 and no surprise), Humpy Koneru (2567 and a bit of a surprise), and old-timer (i.e. older than I am) Pia Cramling (2530, four spots ahead of older-timer Maia Chiburdanidze's 2510). Xie Jun and Susan Polgar have ratings near Koneru's, but both are off the list due to inactivity.
The top 4 juniors: Teimour Radjabov (2729, born in 1987), Magnus Carlsen (2690 and momentarily back out of the 2700 club, born in 1990), Sergey Karjakin (2678, also born in 1990) and Hikaru Nakamura (2651, born in 1987, and apparently back in the action after a brief hiatus from the game).
The top 2 girls: Humpy Koneru (2567, born in 1987) and the remarkable Hifan You (2509, born in 1994!).
And now that we've gawked at these lovely numbers, let's get back to pursuing our own impressive figures!
1. Veselin Topalov 2783
2. Viswanathan Anand 2779
3. Vladimir Kramnik 2766
4. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2754
5. Vassily Ivanchuk 2750
6. Peter Leko 2749
7. Levon Aronian 2744
8. Alexander Morozevich 2741
9. Michael Adams 2735
10.Boris Gelfand 2733
What can we learn from this list? For starters, it's a good thing if your first name starts with a "V". A Very good thing. Second, there isn't any correlation between having a really high rating and being involved in the current world championship cycle: Topalov, Mamedyarov and Ivanchuk will be watching from the sidelines.
Other notes: the big winners on this list are Kramnik (+16 points) and Mamedyarov (+26!!), while the big loser - you might say his rating points went down the...oh, never mind - was Topalov, who lost 30 points (16 against Kramnik, and another 14 in the ensuing Essent tournament won by Mamedyarov and Polgar).
The top 3 women: Judit Polgar (2727 and no surprise), Humpy Koneru (2567 and a bit of a surprise), and old-timer (i.e. older than I am) Pia Cramling (2530, four spots ahead of older-timer Maia Chiburdanidze's 2510). Xie Jun and Susan Polgar have ratings near Koneru's, but both are off the list due to inactivity.
The top 4 juniors: Teimour Radjabov (2729, born in 1987), Magnus Carlsen (2690 and momentarily back out of the 2700 club, born in 1990), Sergey Karjakin (2678, also born in 1990) and Hikaru Nakamura (2651, born in 1987, and apparently back in the action after a brief hiatus from the game).
The top 2 girls: Humpy Koneru (2567, born in 1987) and the remarkable Hifan You (2509, born in 1994!).
And now that we've gawked at these lovely numbers, let's get back to pursuing our own impressive figures!
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Monday January 1, 2007 at 2:13am