30 April 2011

Anand, Judit rule top of Fide chess ratings lists for May 2011
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011


Hi everybody,


Judit Polgar 2699
It’s great that Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk has gained 19 ELO points in the Fide rating list for May 1, 2011 taking her up to the 10th spot among women at 2522. The highest gain of ELO points has been made by the just-crowned US Women’s Chess Champion Anna Zatonskih. Judit Polgar continues to be at the first spot followed by Koneru Humpy and Hou Yifan. 


Among the men, since there were no super tournaments held in March-April, Viswanathan Anand remains at No. 1 with Magnus Carlsen right behind at No. 2.  



Here are the top-30 overall: (No we don’t have a woman there yet though Judit Polgar is just shy of the 2700 mark at 2699! We wish her quick ‘recovery’ of that one point.)




Rank
Name
Title
Country
Rating
Games
BYr
 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


And the women’s top-30




Rank
Name
Title
Country
Rating
Games
BYr
 1
 Polgar, Judit
 g
 HUN
 2699
 11
1976
 2
 Koneru, Humpy
 g
 IND
 2614
 11
1987
 3
 Hou, Yifan
 g
 CHN
 2612
 20
1994
 4
 Kosintseva, Nadezhda
 m
 RUS
 2567
 0
1985
 5
 Kosintseva, Tatiana
 g
 RUS
 2559
 0
1986
 6
 Dzagnidze, Nana
 g
 GEO
 2557
 11
1987
 7
 Zatonskih, Anna
 m
 USA
 2537
 27
1978
 8
 Muzychuk, Anna
 m
 SLO
 2537
 20
1990
 9
 Lahno, Kateryna
 g
 UKR
 2530
 10
1989
 10
 Kosteniuk, Alexandra
 g
 RUS
 2522
 7
1984
 11
 Harika, Dronavalli
 m
 IND
 2520
 18
1991
 12
 Ju, Wenjun
 wg
 CHN
 2511
 29
1991
 13
 Stefanova, Antoaneta
 g
 BUL
 2506
 16
1979
 14
 Danielian, Elina
 g
 ARM
 2506
 11
1978
 15
 Cmilyte, Viktorija
 g
 LTU
 2504
 21
1983
 16
 Sebag, Marie
 g
 FRA
 2504
 11
1986
 17
 Chiburdanidze, Maia
 g
 GEO
 2500
 11
1961
 18
 Galliamova, Alisa
 m
 RUS
 2492
 7
1972
 19
 Socko, Monika
 g
 POL
 2487
 20
1978
 20
 Gunina, Valentina
 wg
 RUS
 2487
 15
1989
 21
 Zhu, Chen
 g
 QAT
 2485
 11
1976
 22
 Xu, Yuhua
 g
 CHN
 2480
 11
1976
 23
 Ruan, Lufei
 wg
 CHN
 2479
 3
1987
 24
 Zhao, Xue
 g
 CHN
 2475
 20
1985
 25
 Muzychuk, Mariya
 m
 UKR
 2473
 14
1992
 26
 Dembo, Yelena
 m
 GRE
 2471
 10
1983
 27
 Khotenashvili, Bela
 m
 GEO
 2470
 17
1988
 28
 Krush, Irina
 m
 USA
 2469
 4
1983
 29
 Cramling, Pia
 g
 SWE
 2468
 18
1963
 30
 Ushenina, Anna
 m
 UKR
 2468
 16
1985


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