Carlsen still top in December 2012 Rating List

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FIDE Rating List (December 2012)

Carlsen still top in December 2012 Rating List

Mark Crowther - Friday 30th November 2012

Magnus Carlsen at the opening press conference of the 4th London Chess Classic. Photo © Ray Morris-Hill.

Magnus Carlsen at the opening press conference of the 4th London Chess Classic. Photo © Ray Morris-Hill. | http://raymorris-hill.smugmug.com

Magnus Carlsen in common with much of the top 10 didn't play any games in the last month. The London Chess Classic starting on 1st Dec will change that and the big question is if Carlsen (currently rated at 2848) can move up past Garry Kasparov's record peak rating of 2851 achieved in the July 1999 rating list. Fabiano Caruana lost 4 points, Veselin Topalov gained 2 and Vassily Ivanchuk gained 3 points climbing from 11th to 9th and pushing down Grischuk and Mamedyarov.

FIDE Rating List December 2012. Top 100
Rk	OldRk	Name	FED	Ti	Rtg	Chg	OldRtg	Gms
1	1	Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	GM	2848		2848	0
2	2	Aronian, Levon	ARM	GM	2815		2815	0
3	3	Kramnik, Vladimir	RUS	GM	2795		2795	0
4	4	Radjabov, Teimour	AZE	GM	2793		2793	0
5	5	Caruana, Fabiano	ITA	GM	2782	-4	2786	6
6	6	Anand, Viswanathan	IND	GM	2775		2775	0
7	7	Karjakin, Sergey	RUS	GM	2775		2775	0
8	8	Topalov, Veselin	BUL	GM	2771	+2	2769	6
9	11	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	GM	2766	+3	2763	6
10	9	Grischuk, Alexander	RUS	GM	2764		2764	0
11	10	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE	GM	2764		2764	0
12	12	Kamsky, Gata	USA	GM	2762		2762	0
13	13	Nakamura, Hikaru	USA	GM	2760	+5	2755	6
14	14	Gelfand, Boris	ISR	GM	2751		2751	0
15	15	Morozevich, Alexander	RUS	GM	2748		2748	0
16	16	Svidler, Peter	RUS	GM	2747		2747	0
17	17	Jakovenko, Dmitry	RUS	GM	2741		2741	0
18	20	Gashimov, Vugar	AZE	GM	2737		2737	0
19	19	Wang, Hao	CHN	GM	2737		2737	0
20	23	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	CUB	GM	2734	+8	2726	7
21	21	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	POL	GM	2734		2734	0
22	18	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	GM	2732	-9	2741	7
23	22	Leko, Peter	HUN	GM	2732		2732	0
24	24	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	RUS	GM	2725		2725	0
25	25	Andreikin, Dmitry	RUS	GM	2723		2723	0
26	26	Volokitin, Andrei	UKR	GM	2722		2722	0
27	28	Giri, Anish	NED	GM	2720	+5	2715	14
28	31	Areshchenko, Alexander	UKR	GM	2720	+9	2711	9
29	29	McShane, Luke J	ENG	GM	2713		2713	0
30	35	Jobava, Baadur	GEO	GM	2711	+1	2710	9
31	30	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA	GM	2711		2711	6
32	48	Moiseenko, Alexander	UKR	GM	2710	+8	2702	9
33	32	Adams, Michael	ENG	GM	2710		2710	0
34	33	Navara, David	CZE	GM	2710		2710	0
35	34	Cheparinov, Ivan	BUL	GM	2709	-1	2710	7
36	36	Malakhov, Vladimir	RUS	GM	2709		2709	0
37	27	Shirov, Alexei	LAT	GM	2708	-8	2716	9
38	37	Naiditsch, Arkadij	GER	GM	2708		2708	0
39	38	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	RUS	GM	2707		2707	0
40	41	Le, Quang Liem	VIE	GM	2705		2705	9
41	43	Polgar, Judit	HUN	GM	2705		2705	0
42	42	Riazantsev, Alexander	RUS	GM	2705		2705	0
43	45	Akopian, Vladimir	ARM	GM	2704	+1	2703	9
44	49	Bacrot, Etienne	FRA	GM	2703	+1	2702	9
45	47	Ding, Liren	CHN	GM	2702		2702	0
46	46	Korobov, Anton	UKR	GM	2702		2702	0
47	44	Fressinet, Laurent	FRA	GM	2700	-3	2703	4
48	59	Harikrishna, P.	IND	GM	2698	+6	2692	7
49	52	Efimenko, Zahar	UKR	GM	2696		2696	0
50	51	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	UZB	GM	2696		2696	0
51	53	Wang, Yue	CHN	GM	2696		2696	0
52	50	Vitiugov, Nikita	RUS	GM	2694	-6	2700	9
53	54	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	ESP	GM	2694		2694	0
54	57	Berkes, Ferenc	HUN	GM	2693		2693	0
55	55	Inarkiev, Ernesto	RUS	GM	2693		2693	0
56	40	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	CUB	GM	2692	-14	2706	8
57	58	Short, Nigel D	ENG	GM	2692		2692	0
58	60	Alekseev, Evgeny	RUS	GM	2691		2691	0
59	39	Almasi, Zoltan	HUN	GM	2689	-18	2707	9
60	66	Grachev, Boris	RUS	GM	2688	+3	2685	9
61	62	Movsesian, Sergei	ARM	GM	2688		2688	0
62	63	Rublevsky, Sergei	RUS	GM	2688		2688	0
63	65	Eljanov, Pavel	UKR	GM	2687	-1	2688	9
64	64	Edouard, Romain	FRA	GM	2686	-2	2688	5
65	67	Sutovsky, Emil	ISR	GM	2684		2684	0
66	76	So, Wesley	PHI	GM	2682	+4	2678	3
67	69	Bu, Xiangzhi	CHN	GM	2682		2682	0
68	68	Zhigalko, Sergei	BLR	GM	2682		2682	0
69	70	Bologan, Viktor	MDA	GM	2681		2681	0
70	72	Yu, Yangyi	CHN	GM	2681		2681	0
71	61	Van Wely, Loek	NED	GM	2678	-13	2691	8
72	84	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	ROU	GM	2677	+9	2668	15
73	78	Motylev, Alexander	RUS	GM	2677		2677	0
74	80	Sasikiran, Krishnan	IND	GM	2676		2676	9
75	82	Gyimesi, Zoltan	HUN	GM	2674		2674	0
76	81	Laznicka, Viktor	CZE	GM	2674		2674	0
77	75	Kryvoruchko, Yuriy	UKR	GM	2671	-8	2679	9
78	56	Li, Chao b	CHN	GM	2670	-23	2693	9
79	85	Fridman, Daniel	GER	GM	2667	-1	2668	10
80	77	Sokolov, Ivan	NED	GM	2667	-10	2677	9
81	74	Sargissian, Gabriel	ARM	GM	2666	-13	2679	7
82	87	Potkin, Vladimir	RUS	GM	2665		2665	0
83	83	Matlakov, Maxim	RUS	GM	2663	-10	2673	9
84	93	Tiviakov, Sergei	NED	GM	2663	+4	2659	6
85	88	Gareev, Timur	USA	GM	2663		2663	0
86	86	Gupta, Abhijeet	IND	GM	2662	-5	2667	9
87	99	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	UKR	GM	2661	+9	2652	18
88	89	Gharamian, Tigran	FRA	GM	2661		2661	0
89	73	Ni, Hua	CHN	GM	2660	-21	2681	9
90	79	Onischuk, Alexander	USA	GM	2660	-16	2676	9
91	90	Georgiev, Kiril	BUL	GM	2660		2660	0
92		Khenkin, Igor	GER	GM	2659			9
93	71	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	RUS	GM	2658	-23	2681	9
94	94	Nielsen, Peter Heine	DEN	GM	2656	-1	2657	9
95	96	Ragger, Markus	AUT	GM	2655		2655	0
96	97	Dreev, Aleksey	RUS	GM	2654		2654	0
97	98	Istratescu, Andrei	FRA	GM	2654		2654	0
98		Smirin, Ilia	ISR	GM	2652			9
99	100	Filippov, Anton	UZB	GM	2652		2652	0
100	101	Kobalia, Mikhail	RUS	GM	2652		2652	0

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