FIDE Rating List (September 2012)
Carlsen rating rises to 2843 in September 2012 List
Mark Crowther - Saturday 1st September 2012

Wang Hao and Carlsen were big ratings winners in Biel. Photo © | http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/en/home/
Magnus Carlsen strengthened his grip on the number 1 spot after his performance in Biel. The top 10 has the same players with Nakamura rising to 5 in the world and within reach of Fischer's 2785 US record. Morozevich drops to 10 in the World but his ill-health brings into question when he will play again. Anish Giri enters the top 20 in the world with a gain of 19 points. Viktor Bologan lost 22 points in Biel, Wang Hao hained 16 points to rise to 15th in the world after Biel.
| FIDE Rating List July 2012. Top 100 | |||||||||
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| Rk | OldRk | Name | FED | Ti | Rtg | Chg | OldRtg | Gms | |
| 1 | 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | GM | 2843 | 6 | 2837 | 10 | |
| 2 | 2 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | GM | 2816 | 2816 | 0 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Kramnik, Vladimir | RUS | GM | 2797 | 2797 | 0 | ||
| 4 | 4 | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | GM | 2788 | 2788 | 0 | ||
| 5 | 7 | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | GM | 2783 | 5 | 2778 | 10 | |
| 6 | 6 | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | GM | 2780 | 2780 | 0 | ||
| 7 | 5 | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | GM | 2778 | -7 | 2785 | 9 | |
| 8 | 8 | Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | GM | 2773 | 2773 | 0 | ||
| 9 | 10 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | GM | 2769 | 2769 | 0 | ||
| 10 | 9 | Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | GM | 2758 | -12 | 2770 | 2 | |
| 11 | 11 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | GM | 2754 | -9 | 2763 | 9 | |
| 12 | 12 | Topalov, Veselin | BUL | GM | 2752 | 2752 | 0 | ||
| 13 | 13 | Svidler, Peter | RUS | GM | 2747 | -2 | 2749 | 9 | |
| 14 | 14 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | GM | 2746 | 2746 | 9 | ||
| 15 | 23 | Wang, Hao | CHN | GM | 2742 | 16 | 2726 | 10 | |
| 16 | 15 | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | GM | 2738 | 2738 | 0 | ||
| 17 | 17 | Gashimov, Vugar | AZE | GM | 2737 | 2737 | 0 | ||
| 18 | 16 | Leko, Peter | HUN | GM | 2737 | 2737 | 0 | ||
| 19 | 21 | Jobava, Baadur | GEO | GM | 2734 | 4 | 2730 | 4 | |
| 20 | 35 | Giri, Anish | NED | GM | 2730 | 19 | 2711 | 10 | |
| 21 | 20 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | GM | 2730 | 2730 | 0 | ||
| 22 | 19 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | GM | 2729 | -5 | 2734 | 11 | |
| 23 | 22 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | GM | 2729 | 2729 | 0 | ||
| 24 | 24 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | CUB | GM | 2725 | 2725 | 0 | ||
| 25 | 25 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | GM | 2724 | 2 | 2722 | 9 | |
| 26 | 26 | Adams, Michael | ENG | GM | 2722 | 2722 | 0 | ||
| 27 | 37 | Volokitin, Andrei | UKR | GM | 2718 | 9 | 2709 | 11 | |
| 28 | 28 | Andreikin, Dmitry | RUS | GM | 2718 | 3 | 2715 | 9 | |
| 29 | 29 | Fressinet, Laurent | FRA | GM | 2714 | 2714 | 10 | ||
| 30 | 41 | Shirov, Alexei | LAT | GM | 2714 | 8 | 2706 | 6 | |
| 31 | 36 | Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | CUB | GM | 2713 | 2 | 2711 | 9 | |
| 32 | 27 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | POL | GM | 2713 | -4 | 2717 | 4 | |
| 33 | 30 | Almasi, Zoltan | HUN | GM | 2713 | 2713 | 0 | ||
| 34 | 32 | McShane, Luke J | ENG | GM | 2713 | 2713 | 0 | ||
| 35 | 18 | Bologan, Viktor | MDA | GM | 2712 | -22 | 2734 | 8 | |
| 36 | 33 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | GER | GM | 2712 | 2712 | 0 | ||
| 37 | 34 | Riazantsev, Alexander | RUS | GM | 2712 | 2712 | 0 | ||
| 38 | 39 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | IND | GM | 2707 | 2707 | 0 | ||
| 39 | 31 | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | GM | 2705 | -8 | 2713 | 20 | |
| 40 | 67 | Korobov, Anton | UKR | GM | 2705 | 22 | 2683 | 11 | |
| 41 | 46 | Movsesian, Sergei | ARM | GM | 2705 | 7 | 2698 | 11 | |
| 42 | 43 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | GM | 2704 | 2704 | 0 | ||
| 43 | 56 | Areshchenko, Alexander | UKR | GM | 2702 | 11 | 2691 | 11 | |
| 44 | 38 | Malakhov, Vladimir | RUS | GM | 2700 | -8 | 2708 | 10 | |
| 45 | 40 | Moiseenko, Alexander | UKR | GM | 2699 | -7 | 2706 | 11 | |
| 46 | 48 | Sokolov, Ivan | NED | GM | 2699 | 3 | 2696 | 10 | |
| 47 | 42 | Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | GM | 2699 | -6 | 2705 | 9 | |
| 48 | 44 | Polgar, Judit | HUN | GM | 2698 | 2698 | 0 | ||
| 49 | 45 | Short, Nigel D | ENG | GM | 2698 | 2698 | 0 | ||
| 50 | 61 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | GM | 2697 | 11 | 2686 | 21 | |
| 51 | 47 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | ESP | GM | 2697 | 2697 | 14 | ||
| 52 | 49 | Ding, Liren | CHN | GM | 2694 | -1 | 2695 | 13 | |
| 53 | 53 | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | GM | 2693 | 2693 | 0 | ||
| 54 | 54 | Rublevsky, Sergei | RUS | GM | 2693 | 2693 | 0 | ||
| 55 | 51 | Sargissian, Gabriel | ARM | GM | 2693 | 2693 | 0 | ||
| 56 | 62 | Wang, Yue | CHN | GM | 2691 | 6 | 2685 | 10 | |
| 57 | 55 | Navara, David | CZE | GM | 2691 | 2691 | 0 | ||
| 58 | 57 | Van Wely, Loek | NED | GM | 2691 | 2691 | 0 | ||
| 59 | 63 | Harikrishna, P. | IND | GM | 2690 | 5 | 2685 | 11 | |
| 60 | 50 | Efimenko, Zahar | UKR | GM | 2689 | -5 | 2694 | 11 | |
| 61 | 71 | Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | GM | 2689 | 8 | 2681 | 10 | |
| 62 | 70 | Georgiev, Kiril | BUL | GM | 2687 | 5 | 2682 | 25 | |
| 63 | 58 | Akopian, Vladimir | ARM | GM | 2687 | 2687 | 0 | ||
| 64 | 59 | Sutovsky, Emil | ISR | GM | 2687 | 2687 | 0 | ||
| 65 | 60 | Kryvoruchko, Yuriy | UKR | GM | 2686 | 2686 | 0 | ||
| 66 | 64 | Berkes, Ferenc | HUN | GM | 2685 | 2685 | 0 | ||
| 67 | 52 | Eljanov, Pavel | UKR | GM | 2684 | -9 | 2693 | 11 | |
| 68 | 65 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | UZB | GM | 2684 | 2684 | 0 | ||
| 69 | 79 | Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | GM | 2683 | 13 | 2670 | 9 | |
| 70 | 66 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | RUS | GM | 2683 | 2683 | 0 | ||
| 71 | 76 | Alekseev, Evgeny | RUS | GM | 2682 | 9 | 2673 | 9 | |
| 72 | 100 | Edouard, Romain | FRA | GM | 2678 | 26 | 2652 | 21 | |
| 73 | 72 | Dreev, Aleksey | RUS | GM | 2677 | 2677 | 10 | ||
| 74 | 80 | Ragger, Markus | AUT | GM | 2677 | 7 | 2670 | 7 | |
| 75 | 69 | Bauer, Christian | FRA | GM | 2676 | -6 | 2682 | 21 | |
| 76 | 68 | Laznicka, Viktor | CZE | GM | 2675 | -8 | 2683 | 6 | |
| 77 | 75 | Gyimesi, Zoltan | HUN | GM | 2674 | 2674 | 0 | ||
| 78 | 74 | Tiviakov, Sergei | NED | GM | 2674 | 2674 | 0 | ||
| 79 | 73 | Grachev, Boris | RUS | GM | 2672 | -3 | 2675 | 11 | |
| 80 | 83 | Onischuk, Alexander | USA | GM | 2672 | 6 | 2666 | 8 | |
| 81 | 77 | Ni, Hua | CHN | GM | 2671 | 2671 | 0 | ||
| 82 | 78 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | RUS | GM | 2671 | 2671 | 0 | ||
| 83 | 81 | Balogh, Csaba | HUN | GM | 2668 | 2668 | 0 | ||
| 84 | 99 | So, Wesley | PHI | GM | 2667 | 15 | 2652 | 9 | |
| 85 | 82 | Zhigalko, Sergei | BLR | GM | 2667 | 2667 | 0 | ||
| 86 | 84 | Li, Chao b | CHN | GM | 2665 | 2665 | 0 | ||
| 87 | 86 | Najer, Evgeniy | RUS | GM | 2664 | 2664 | 0 | ||
| 88 | 93 | Gareev, Timur | USA | GM | 2663 | 5 | 2658 | 18 | |
| 89 | Potkin, Vladimir | RUS | GM | 2663 | 9 | ||||
| 90 | 88 | Gharamian, Tigran | FRA | GM | 2663 | 2663 | 0 | ||
| 91 | 87 | Matlakov, Maxim | RUS | GM | 2663 | 2663 | 0 | ||
| 92 | 89 | Nielsen, Peter Heine | DEN | GM | 2662 | 2662 | 0 | ||
| 93 | 102 | Kurnosov, Igor | RUS | GM | 2660 | 8 | 2652 | 11 | |
| 94 | 96 | Jones, Gawain C B | ENG | GM | 2658 | 5 | 2653 | 11 | |
| 95 | 85 | Negi, Parimarjan | IND | GM | 2658 | -6 | 2664 | 9 | |
| 96 | 92 | Motylev, Alexander | RUS | GM | 2658 | 2658 | 0 | ||
| 97 | 97 | Fridman, Daniel | GER | GM | 2657 | 4 | 2653 | 9 | |
| 98 | 90 | Petrosian, Tigran L. | ARM | GM | 2657 | -4 | 2661 | 9 | |
| 99 | Meier, Georg | GER | GM | 2656 | 20 | ||||
| 100 | Gupta, Abhijeet | IND | GM | 2654 | 9 | ||||
| 101 | 95 | Bartel, Mateusz | POL | GM | 2654 | 2654 | 0 | ||
TWIC is 31. First issue 17th September 1994.
