Aronian closes to within 15 points of Carlsen in March FIDE Rating List

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FIDE Rating List (March 2012)

Aronian closes to within 15 points of Carlsen in March FIDE Rating List

Mark Crowther - Wednesday 29th February 2012

Levon Aronian moves within striking distance of Carlsen in the March FIDE Rating list. Photo © Frits Agterdenbos.

Levon Aronian moves within striking distance of Carlsen in the March FIDE Rating list. Photo © Frits Agterdenbos. | http://www.chessvista.com

Magnus Carlsen retains the top spot in the March 2012 FIDE rating list but Levon Aronian closed to within 15 points after he won the 74th Tata Steel tournament by a point from the Norwegian to gain 15 points to go to 2820, Carlsen's rating remains at 2835. Kramnik and Anand didn't play in this period and retain 3rd and 4th positions. Radjabov gained 11 points in Wijk aan Zee and retains 5th. Hikaru Nakamura jumps from 12th to 6th gaining 12 points, Fabiano Caruana gains 31 points to jump from 17th to 7th. Veselin Topalov falls from 6th to 12th after losing 18 points in Wijk aan Zee. Michael Adams is up from 25th to 18th after Gibraltar, Short up from 71st to 49th after gaining 20 points in the same event. Boris Gelfand drops to 22nd in the World after his bad Wijk aan Zee. Judit Polgar lost a point but goes up from 32nd to 29th in the World. Women['s World Champion Hou Yifan is outside the top 100 but at 2639 she was only 13 rating points short of making the list this time. The rating list will continue to be released every two months until July when it will move to a monthly update. Full top 100 below.

FIDE Rating List March 2012. Top 100
Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2835	13	1990
2	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2820	13	1982
3	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2801	0	1975
4	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2799	0	1969
5	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2784	13	1987
6	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2771	23	1987
7	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2767	32	1992
8	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2766	13	1990
9	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2765	10	1977
10	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2764	23	1969
11	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2761	0	1983
12	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2752	13	1975
13	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2752	10	1985
14	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2745	13	1986
15	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2744	10	1976
16	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2741	13	1974
17	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2736	9	1987
18	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2735	10	1971
19	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2733	0	1989
20	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2730	0	1983
21	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2729	0	1983
22	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2727	13	1968
23	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2727	0	1983
24	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2720	0	1979
25	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2719	10	1976
26	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2718	9	1990
27	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2717	23	1994
28	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2710	0	1985
29	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2709	10	1976
30	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2709	10	1987
31	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2706	9	1983
32	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2706	8	1983
33	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2706	0	1980
34	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2706	0	1987
35	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2705	14	1986
36	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2705	0	1980
37	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2704	9	1983
38	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2703	19	1981
39	Li, Chao b	g	CHN	2703	16	1989
40	Laznicka, Viktor	g	CZE	2702	10	1988
41	Movsesian, Sergei	g	ARM	2702	10	1978
42	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2702	9	1987
43	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2702	0	1985
44	Shirov, Alexei	g	LAT	2701	10	1972
45	Navara, David	g	CZE	2700	13	1985
46	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2700	9	1977
47	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2698	19	1991
48	Dreev, Aleksey	g	RUS	2698	0	1969
49	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2697	10	1965
50	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2695	9	1985
51	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2695	0	1985
52	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2695	0	1986
53	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	g	CUB	2694	13	1982
54	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2693	16	1982
55	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2693	0	1981
56	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2693	0	1973
57	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2691	15	1972
58	McShane, Luke J	g	ENG	2691	0	1984
59	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2689	18	1990
60	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2689	0	1979
61	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2688	0	1986
62	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2687	10	1971
63	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2686	0	1974
64	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2684	9	1971
65	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2683	13	1979
66	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2683	9	1976
67	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2682	10	1990
68	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2682	0	1985
69	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2679	9	1985
70	Bauer, Christian	g	FRA	2679	0	1977
71	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2678	13	1986
72	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2674	10	1983
73	Tiviakov, Sergei	g	NED	2673	34	1973
74	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2673	16	1985
75	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2671	27	1965
76	Gharamian, Tigran	g	FRA	2671	9	1984
77	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2670	0	1975
78	Potkin, Vladimir	g	RUS	2669	13	1982
79	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2668	18	1985
80	Azarov, Sergei	g	BLR	2667	0	1983
81	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	2666	9	1978
82	Kryvoruchko, Yuriy	g	UKR	2666	0	1986
83	Bartel, Mateusz	g	POL	2665	32	1985
84	Balogh, Csaba	g	HUN	2664	9	1987
85	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2664	9	1986
86	Postny, Evgeny	g	ISR	2662	9	1981
87	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	g	VIE	2662	0	1990
88	Ding, Liren	g	CHN	2660	0	1992
89	Turov, Maxim	g	RUS	2658	27	1979
90	Kurnosov, Igor	g	RUS	2657	16	1985
91	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	2657	8	1968
92	Khismatullin, Denis	g	RUS	2656	18	1984
93	Lysyj, Igor	g	RUS	2656	9	1987
94	Gareev, Timur	g	UZB	2654	11	1988
95	Ragger, Markus	g	AUT	2654	9	1988
96	Fridman, Daniel	g	GER	2653	19	1976
97	Sokolov, Ivan	g	NED	2653	14	1968
98	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	2653	0	1972
99	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2653	0	1993
100	Rodshtein, Maxim	g	ISR	2652	9	1989
101	Gyimesi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2652	0	1977
102	Nikolic, Predrag	g	BIH	2652	0	1960
103	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	2652	0	1983

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