Carlsen heads top 10 that remains the same in FIDE May 2012 list

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Carlsen heads top 10 that remains the same in FIDE May 2012 list

Mark Crowther - Monday 30th April 2012

Sergey Karjakin was the big gainer in the top 10 May list. Photo Frits Agterdenbos.

Sergey Karjakin was the big gainer in the top 10 May list. Photo Frits Agterdenbos. | http://www.chessvista.com

Magnus Carlsen remains world number 1 in the May FIDE list having a rating of 2835 and played no games. Levon Aronian edged closer having gained 5 points. He will have lost a small number drawing with Kramnik but those were not included. The composition of the top 10 remains the same but the order changed because Sergey Karjakin gained 13 point in the Russian Teams to move up to 6 in the world. 45 players are now rated over 2700 including Viktor Bologan who gained 29 points. England has three players over 2700 (Adams, Short and McShane) and Gawain Jones is back in the top 100.

FIDE Rating List May 2012. Top 100
Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2835	0	1990
2	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2825	3	1982
3	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2801	0	1975
4	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2791	4	1969
5	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2784	0	1987
6	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2779	7	1990
7	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2775	5	1987
8	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2770	26	1992
9	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2769	7	1977
10	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2764	0	1969
11	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2761	0	1983
12	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2752	0	1975
13	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2741	12	1976
14	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2741	0	1974
15	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2738	6	1987
16	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2738	6	1989
17	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2737	5	1986
18	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2736	17	1983
19	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2728	9	1971
20	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2727	0	1968
21	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2726	11	1983
22	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2726	8	1985
23	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2725	7	1983
24	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2723	6	1979
25	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2721	24	1983
26	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2720	17	1981
27	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2717	20	1987
28	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2716	30	1971
29	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2716	7	1990
30	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2715	27	1981
31	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2714	18	1985
32	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2713	9	1976
33	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2712	18	1980
34	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	g	CUB	2711	8	1982
35	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2711	6	1980
36	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2709	0	1976
37	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2707	16	1985
38	Navara, David	g	CZE	2706	40	1985
39	McShane, Luke J	g	ENG	2706	10	1984
40	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2705	9	1965
41	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2704	28	1986
42	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2703	24	1987
43	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2703	9	1991
44	Li, Chao b	g	CHN	2703	0	1989
45	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2700	17	1990
46	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2698	36	1985
47	Movsesian, Sergei	g	ARM	2698	28	1978
48	Shirov, Alexei	g	LAT	2698	13	1972
49	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2697	20	1971
50	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2697	20	1982
51	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2696	29	1985
52	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2695	33	1983
53	Dreev, Aleksey	g	RUS	2694	17	1969
54	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2693	22	1994
55	Laznicka, Viktor	g	CZE	2693	18	1988
56	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2693	16	1986
57	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2693	11	1983
58	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2693	6	1974
59	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2691	22	1986
60	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2690	11	1987
61	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2690	10	1979
62	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2689	24	1985
63	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2689	20	1965
64	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2687	23	1977
65	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2683	5	1976
66	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2682	19	1972
67	Sokolov, Ivan	g	NED	2680	37	1968
68	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2680	33	1986
69	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2680	18	1990
70	Ding, Liren	g	CHN	2679	18	1992
71	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2679	11	1983
72	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2678	25	1985
73	Bartel, Mateusz	g	POL	2677	38	1985
74	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	2677	11	1978
75	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2677	7	1985
76	Kryvoruchko, Yuriy	g	UKR	2676	28	1986
77	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	2673	29	1983
78	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2673	20	1986
79	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2673	10	1979
80	Balogh, Csaba	g	HUN	2672	30	1987
81	Gharamian, Tigran	g	FRA	2672	19	1984
82	Bauer, Christian	g	FRA	2672	17	1977
83	Ragger, Markus	g	AUT	2670	40	1988
84	Khenkin, Igor	g	GER	2670	37	1968
85	Matlakov, Maxim	g	RUS	2668	22	1991
86	Turov, Maxim	g	RUS	2667	34	1979
87	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2665	17	1973
88	Najer, Evgeniy	g	RUS	2664	37	1977
89	Khismatullin, Denis	g	RUS	2664	15	1984
90	Kurnosov, Igor	g	RUS	2663	14	1985
91	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2660	9	1975
92	Azarov, Sergei	g	BLR	2658	29	1983
93	Jones, Gawain C B	g	ENG	2657	34	1987
94	Petrosian, Tigran L.	g	ARM	2657	29	1984
95	Granda Zuniga, Julio E	g	PER	2657	16	1967
96	Mchedlishvili, Mikheil	g	GEO	2656	38	1979
97	Tiviakov, Sergei	g	NED	2656	17	1973
98	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2656	11	1985
99	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	2656	11	1989
100	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	g	VIE	2656	9	1990

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