FIDE Rating May 2011

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FIDE Rating List (May 11)

Mark Crowther - Saturday 30th April 2011

Vugar Gashimov moves to 10 in the World in the May 2011 FIDE Rating List. Photo © Fred Lucas.

Vugar Gashimov moves to 10 in the World in the May 2011 FIDE Rating List. Photo © Fred Lucas. | http://www.fredlucas.eu/

World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand retains his lead over Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian as hardly any of the players in the top 10 played any games. Vugar Gashimov enters the top 10 in the world through some old Bundesliga results that have only just been submitted. The lack of top level games reflects the crunch in the finances at the top level and the fact that many are preparing for the World Chess Championship Candidates which start next week.

There was very little change at the top of the rating list due to the lack of elite chess in this period. The most important event was the Amber Rapidplay which obviously wasn't rated.

Events that were covered were the European Individual Championships and the Russian Teams. Perhaps most important however was that the whole year of the Bundesliga results for 2010-11 were submitted (even though on this day it turns out that contrary to all expections the season hadn't actually finished and there was a final relegation match to be played).

The financial troubles meant that even though many top 10 players have clubs they didn't actually play.

Gashimov moved into the top 10 due to his Bundesliga performance, Ponomariov also went above the former number 10 Alexander Grischuk (who had no games) through the Russian Team Championship performances.

Arkadij Naiditsch moved from 52 to 27, he lost points in Aix-les-Bains but his huge Bundesliga and recent Neckar Open ended up with him gaining 31.5 points.

Vladimir Potkin gained 29 points, mostly from winning in Aix-les-Bains.

Judit Polgar climbed 10 places as she returns to full time play. She obviously is still women's number one way ahead of Humpy Koneru, but it is young women's world champion Hou Yifan that looks more likely to have the long term chances to overtake her and she is also the top 14 junior of either sex.

A rating of 2648 was required to be in the top 100.

FIDE Rating List May 2011 Top 100
Rank	Name	Title	FED	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2817	0	1969
2	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2815	0	1990
3	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2808	0	1982
4	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2785	0	1975
5	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2776	9	1969
6	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2776	0	1990
7	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2775	0	1975
8	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2774	0	1987
9	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2772	0	1985
10	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2760	6	1986
11	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2754	10	1983
12	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2747	0	1983
13	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2744	0	1987
14	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2739	28	1976
15	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2733	31	1987
16	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2733	4	1968
17	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2732	20	1983
18	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2732	7	1974
19	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2732	6	1989
20	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2731	5	1990
21	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2726	12	1983
22	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2726	9	1971
23	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2722	30	1982
24	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2721	22	1987
25	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2719	0	1976
26	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2717	0	1979
27	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2716	35	1985
28	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2714	21	1992
29	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2714	11	1987
30	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2712	14	1983
31	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2711	20	1990
32	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2709	6	1972
33	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2707	10	1987
34	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2705	21	1983
35	Movsesian, Sergei	g	ARM	2705	20	1978
36	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2704	11	1983
37	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2704	10	1980
38	Dreev, Aleksey	g	RUS	2703	19	1969
39	Navara, David	g	CZE	2702	24	1985
40	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2701	20	1985
41	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2699	11	1976
42	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2696	23	1979
43	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2694	22	1986
44	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2694	0	1977
45	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	g	CUB	2693	12	1982
46	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2693	7	1985
47	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2687	22	1994
48	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2687	9	1990
49	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2687	1	1991
50	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2686	11	1977
51	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2685	10	1979
52	Potkin, Vladimir	g	RUS	2682	24	1982
53	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2682	21	1974
54	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2682	9	1965
55	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2681	26	1973
56	Laznicka, Viktor	g	CZE	2681	17	1988
57	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2679	30	1980
58	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	2679	29	1989
59	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2679	22	1985
60	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2679	21	1985
61	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	2679	11	1978
62	Mamedov, Rauf	g	AZE	2679	11	1988
63	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2678	20	1971
64	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2677	30	1986
65	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2677	24	1981
66	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2676	9	1981
67	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2675	15	1975
68	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2675	9	1972
69	Ragger, Markus	g	AUT	2674	37	1988
70	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2673	19	1985
71	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2670	11	1971
72	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2669	19	1986
73	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2669	11	1986
74	McShane, Luke J	g	ENG	2667	36	1984
75	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2667	0	1993
76	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2666	9	1986
77	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	2665	0	1985
78	Ding, Liren	g	CHN	2664	33	1992
79	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2663	11	1983
80	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2662	20	1985
81	Fridman, Daniel	g	GER	2661	32	1976
82	Gharamian, Tigran	g	FRA	2661	20	1984
83	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	2661	17	1983
84	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	2661	11	1968
85	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	2660	32	1983
86	Feller, Sebastien	g	FRA	2660	21	1991
87	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2660	11	1985
88	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2659	20	1976
89	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2659	18	1976
90	Li, Chao b	g	CHN	2656	34	1989
91	Khismatullin, Denis	g	RUS	2656	20	1984
92	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2656	11	1965
93	Sandipan, Chanda	g	IND	2656	6	1983
94	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	g	UKR	2654	31	1981
95	Socko, Bartosz	g	POL	2654	13	1978
96	Miroshnichenko, Evgenij	g	UKR	2651	24	1978
97	Meier, Georg	g	GER	2650	16	1987
98	Khairullin, Ildar	g	RUS	2649	24	1990
99	Ivanisevic, Ivan	g	SRB	2648	24	1977
100	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	2648	3	1972

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