31 March 2013

April-2013 Chess Ratings: Carlsen Remains at No. 1, Aronian No. 2, Kramnik No. 3
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Hi everyone, 


The FIDE April rating list has been published with Magnus Carlsen remaining at the No. 1 slot with the same points as in March  and most of the top ratings remain the same as the Candidates 2013 tournament has not ended yet. Only Boris Gelfand and Vladimir Kramnik have lost nine points and one point respectively from the games at the Zurich Chess Challenge. Here are the top-30 men and women’s ratings. For the complete lists check out the Fide website.

Top 30


 Name

Rating
 1  Carlsen, Magnus  g  NOR  2872
 2  Aronian, Levon  g  ARM  2809
 3  Kramnik, Vladimir  g  RUS  2801
 4  Radjabov, Teimour  g  AZE  2793
 5  Karjakin, Sergey  g  RUS  2786
 6  Anand, Viswanathan  g  IND  2783
 7  Caruana, Fabiano  g  ITA  2772
 8  Topalov, Veselin  g  BUL  2771
 9  Nakamura, Hikaru  g  USA  2767
 10  Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar  g  AZE  2766
 11  Grischuk, Alexander  g  RUS  2764
 12  Morozevich, Alexander  g  RUS  2758
 13  Ivanchuk, Vassily  g  UKR  2757
 14  Svidler, Peter  g  RUS  2747
 15  Leko, Peter  g  HUN  2744
 16  Wang, Hao  g  CHN  2743
 17  Kamsky, Gata  g  USA  2741
 18  Gelfand, Boris  g  ISR  2739
 19  Jakovenko, Dmitry  g  RUS  2734
 20  Ponomariov, Ruslan  g  UKR  2733
 21  Giri, Anish  g  NED  2727
 22  Adams, Michael  g  ENG  2727
 23  Andreikin, Dmitry  g  RUS  2727
 24  Dominguez Perez, Leinier  g  CUB  2723
 25  Tomashevsky, Evgeny  g  RUS  2722
 26  Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime  g  FRA  2722
 27  Le, Quang Liem  g  VIE  2717
 28  Vitiugov, Nikita  g  RUS  2712
 29  Kasimdzhanov, Rustam  g  UZB  2709
 30  Malakhov, Vladimir  g  RUS  2709

Top 30 Women’s


 1  Polgar, Judit  g  HUN  2696
 2  Hou, Yifan  g  CHN  2617
 3  Koneru, Humpy  g  IND  2597
 4  Muzychuk, Anna  g  SLO  2585
 5  Zhao, Xue  g  CHN  2565
 6  Lagno, Kateryna  g  UKR  2550
 7  Dzagnidze, Nana  g  GEO  2545
 8  Kosintseva, Nadezhda  g  RUS  2531
 9  Sebag, Marie  g  FRA  2527
 10  Stefanova, Antoaneta  g  BUL  2525
 11  Cramling, Pia  g  SWE  2525
 12  Cmilyte, Viktorija  g  LTU  2522
 13  Ju, Wenjun  wg  CHN  2521
 14  Kosintseva, Tatiana  g  RUS  2517
 15  Gunina, Valentina  m  RUS  2510
 16  Harika, Dronavalli  g  IND  2509
 17  Ruan, Lufei  wg  CHN  2501
 18  Kosteniuk, Alexandra  g  RUS  2496
 19  Khotenashvili, Bela  m  GEO  2492
 20  Zhu, Chen  g  QAT  2491
 21  Ushenina, Anna  g  UKR  2488
 22  Muzychuk, Mariya  m  UKR  2483
 23  Tan, Zhongyi  wg  CHN  2483
 24  Paehtz, Elisabeth  m  GER  2479
 25  Danielian, Elina  g  ARM  2478
 26  Zhukova, Natalia  g  UKR  2476
 27  Hoang, Thanh Trang  g  HUN  2476
 28  Pogonina, Natalija  wg  RUS  2473
 29  Zatonskih, Anna  m  USA  2471
 30  Krush, Irina  m  USA  2470

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