FIDE Ratings January 2011

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FIDE Rating List January 2011 (Jan11)

Mark Crowther - Friday 31st December 2010

Viswanthan Anand and Magnus Carlsen switch places in January.

Viswanthan Anand and Magnus Carlsen switch places in January. | http://www.theweekinchess.com

Magnus Carlsen has returned to World Number One in the January 2011 FIDE Rating List (if the finished Pearl Spring tournament had been included he would never have lost it) but there is only a small gap between him, World Champion Viswanathan Anand and Levon Aronian who are all over 2800. The Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee will see these three fight it out for World Number One.

Magnus Carlsen regains the top spot in the FIDE rating list after being displaced by World Champion Viswanathan Anand in November. At that time the Pearl Spring tournament in China had finished too late for inclusion in the list which would have kept him at number one. Both players had roughly the same rating performance in London. Carlsen on 2814 is four points in front of Anand 2810 with Levon Aronian just behind on 2805 after a good result in the Tal Memorial. Vladimir Kramnik remains at four, Sergey Karjakin rises to 5 in the World after gains in the Tal Memorial and Russian Championships. Veselin Topalov drops one to 6, Alexander Grischuk is at 7, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov is at 8, Vassily Ivanchuk at 9 and Hikaru Nakamura reaches a new high at 2751 and enters the top 10 for the first time.

At 15 in the World after his performance in winning the Russian Championship is Ian Nepomniatchtchi. 39 players are rated at 2700 or over. 2649 is the rating that gets you in the list. Luke McShane becomes England's number 2 after his gains and Short's losses at the London Chess Classic. Anish Giri remains the Dutch Number One.

The top junior is Fabiano Caruana ahead of Anish Giri as Carlsen is now too old for this list. Perhaps significantly new Women's World Champion Hou Yifan is 13 in this open list at only the age of 16 and she is number three women's player in the world behind Judit Polgar and Humpy Koneru. These three are the only women players over 2600.

FIDE Rating List January 2011 Top 100
Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2814	17	1990
2	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2810	17	1969
3	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2805	9	1982
4	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2784	16	1975
5	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2776	20	1990
6	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2775	10	1975
7	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2773	20	1983
8	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2772	9	1985
9	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2764	0	1969
10	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2751	16	1987
11	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2744	0	1983
12	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2744	0	1987
13	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2736	10	1986
14	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2734	21	1987
15	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2733	11	1990
16	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2733	9	1968
17	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2731	33	1989
18	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2730	11	1976
19	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2730	6	1974
20	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2726	0	1987
21	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2724	9	1983
22	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2723	10	1983
23	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2723	7	1971
24	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2722	15	1972
25	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2721	18	1992
26	Movsesian, Sergei	g	ARM	2721	0	1978
27	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2719	10	1976
28	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2718	11	1983
29	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2717	0	1979
30	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2716	0	1983
31	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2715	6	1990
32	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2714	14	1980
33	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2709	11	1987
34	Navara, David	g	CZE	2708	0	1985
35	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2707	15	1981
36	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2707	0	1983
37	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2701	0	1985
38	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2701	0	1985
39	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2700	0	1977
40	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2698	0	1982
41	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2695	11	1987
42	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2695	0	1977
43	Dreev, Aleksey	g	RUS	2694	18	1969
44	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2693	7	1971
45	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2690	9	1981
46	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2689	13	1975
47	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2689	9	1990
48	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2689	0	1985
49	Laznicka, Viktor	g	CZE	2688	0	1988
50	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2687	3	1979
51	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	g	CUB	2686	18	1982
52	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2686	7	1994
53	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2686	0	1976
54	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2685	0	1985
55	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2681	7	1979
56	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	2681	0	1985
57	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2678	9	1985
58	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2678	2	1986
59	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2678	0	1976
60	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2678	0	1974
61	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2677	18	1985
62	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2676	12	1972
63	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2675	0	1971
64	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2673	18	1993
65	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2672	9	1985
66	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2671	9	1986
67	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	2671	9	1989
68	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2670	18	1985
69	Miroshnichenko, Evgenij	g	UKR	2670	0	1978
70	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2670	0	1980
71	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2670	0	1973
72	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2669	0	1965
73	Meier, Georg	g	GER	2667	10	1987
74	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2667	9	1986
75	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2667	0	1983
76	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	2666	0	1978
77	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2665	9	1986
78	McShane, Luke J	g	ENG	2664	7	1984
79	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2664	5	1991
80	Bareev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2663	0	1966
81	Kurnosov, Igor	g	RUS	2662	18	1985
82	Smeets, Jan	g	NED	2662	1	1985
83	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2660	20	1976
84	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2660	12	1986
85	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	2660	9	1968
86	Mamedov, Rauf	g	AZE	2660	0	1988
87	Socko, Bartosz	g	POL	2660	0	1978
88	Gharamian, Tigran	g	FRA	2658	13	1984
89	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2658	13	1965
90	Sokolov, Ivan	g	NED	2657	9	1968
91	Feller, Sebastien	g	FRA	2657	0	1991
92	Nyback, Tomi	g	FIN	2656	2	1985
93	Zhou, Jianchao	g	CHN	2655	26	1988
94	Fridman, Daniel	g	GER	2655	9	1976
95	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	2653	9	1972
96	Gustafsson, Jan	g	GER	2652	0	1979
97	Potkin, Vladimir	g	RUS	2651	11	1982
98	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	g	IND	2651	8	1983
99	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	g	UKR	2650	22	1981
100	Khismatullin, Denis	g	RUS	2649	20	1984
101	Li, Chao b	g	CHN	2649	18	1989
102	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	2649	0	1983

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