Tuesday, September 30, 2008

FIDE World Chess Rankings Announced


FIDE has announced the October world chess rankings. Topalov is back in the saddle. There is an ironic twist to the World Chess Championship match between Anand and Kramnik since it will now be No. 5 vs No. 6. Not good for aggressive sellers of this match.

Top 20 Rankings Open Section

 1  Topalov, Veselin  BUL  2791
 2  Morozevich, Alexander  RUS  2787
 3  Ivanchuk, Vassily  UKR  2786
 4  Carlsen, Magnus  NOR  2786
 5  Anand, Viswanathan  IND  2783
 6  Kramnik, Vladimir  RUS  2772
 7  Aronian, Levon   ARM 2757
 8  Radjabov, Teimour  AZE  2751
 9  Leko, Peter   HUN  2747
 10  Jakovenko, Dmitry  RUS  2737
 11  Wang, Yue   CHN  2736
 12  Adams, Michael   ENG  2734
 13  Movsesian, Sergei  SVK  2732
 14  Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar  AZE  2731
 15  Karjakin, Sergey  UKR  2730
 16  Kamsky, Gata   USA  2729
 17  Svidler, Peter   RUS  2727
 18  Shirov, Alexei   ESP  2726
 19  Eljanov, Pavel   UKR  2720
 20  Gelfand, Boris   ISR  2719

Top 20 Rankings Women

 1  Polgar, Judit   HUN  2711
 2  Koneru, Humpy   IND  2618
 3  Hou, Yifan   CHN  2578
 4  Xie, Jun   CHN  2574
 5  Cramling, Pia   SWE  2550
 6  Stefanova, Antoaneta  BUL  2548
 7  Sebag, Marie   FRA  2533
 8  Kosteniuk, Alexandra  RUS  2525
 9  Zhao, Xue   CHN  2518
 10  Danielian, Elina  ARM  2513
 11  Kosintseva, Tatiana  RUS  2513
 12  Cmilyte, Viktorija  LTU  2512
 13  Muzychuk, Anna   SLO  2508
 14  Dzagnidze, Nana  GEO  2503
 15  Ushenina, Anna   UKR  2496
 16  Ruan, Lufei   CHN  2496
 17  Zhu, Chen   QAT  2496
 18  Chiburdanidze, Maia  GEO  2489
 19  Lahno, Kateryna  UKR  2488
 20  Zhukova, Natalia  UKR  2488

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