Magnus Carlsen is number one!

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31.12.2009 – FIDE has just released its January 1st 2010 rating list, and it has the 19-year-old Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen with 2810 in the number one slot, five points ahead of number two Veselin Topalov, and twenty points above World Champion Viswanathan Anand. Magnus is the youngest player to cross the 2800 mark and to top the world rankings. Congratulations! FIDE January 2010 Rating List Magnus Carlsen gained nine rating points in his last sixteen games to come in at 2810 Elo points and to occupy the number one slot in the world rankings. Below is this prodigy's rating progress in the last nine years. In second place is Bulgarian GM Veselin Topalov, who lost five points in four games (at the European Team Championships in Novi Sad), followed by World Champion Viswanathan Anand, who lost two points in nine games. Vladimir Kramnik is number four, having won a whopping sixteen points in sixteen games. Kramnik displaced Levon Aronian, who lost five points and is now in place five in the world rankings. Other notatble changes at the top: Vassily Ivanchuk has gained ten points and is once again in the top ten. So is Chinese GM Wang Yue, who gained fifteen points. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov gained 22 points, while Peter Leko lost 13, Teimour Radjabov 15 and Alexander Morozevich 18 points. FIDE January 1st 2010 – Top 100 Players Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1  Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2810 16 1990 2  Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2805 4 1975 3  Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2790 9 1969 4  Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2788 16 1975 5  Aronian, Levon g ARM 2781 17 1982 6  Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2761 25 1968 7  Gashimov, Vugar g AZE 2759 21 1986 8  Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2749 13 1969 9  Wang, Yue g CHN 2749 8 1987 10  Svidler, Peter g RUS 2744 27 1976 11  Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2741 19 1985 12  Leko, Peter g HUN 2739 9 1979 13  Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2737 25 1983 14  Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2736 14 1983 15  Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2736 8 1983 16  Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2733 13 1987 17  Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2732 19 1977 18  Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2730 21 1990 19  Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2730 17 1983 20  Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2723 19 1972 21  Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2720 12 1990 22  Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2716 15 1980 23  Wang, Hao g CHN 2715 10 1989 24  Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2713 18 1983 25  Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2712 4 1983 26  Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2710 7 1976 27  Navara, David g CZE 2708 15 1985 28  Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2708 7 1987 29  Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2708 2 1978 30  Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2705 14 1987 31  Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2705 10 1982 32  Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2704 15 1983 33  Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2703 13 1985 34  Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2702 2 1979 35  Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2697 6 1979 36  Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2697 4 1974 37  Nielsen, Peter Heine g DEN 2697 0 1973 38  Short, Nigel D g ENG 2696 7 1965 39  Adams, Michael g ENG 2694 17 1971 40  Kamsky, Gata g USA 2693 6 1974 41  Vitiugov, Nikita g RUS 2692 8 1987 42  Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2692 8 1986 43  Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2692 6 1971 44  Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2687 13 1985 45  Miroshnichenko, Evgenij g UKR 2686 0 1978 46  Polgar, Judit g HUN 2682 4 1976 47  Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROU 2681 12 1976 48  Sargissian, Gabriel g ARM 2680 12 1983 49  Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2678 10 1971 50  Moiseenko, Alexander g UKR 2677 0 1980 51  Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2675 18 1992 52  Bu, Xiangzhi g CHN 2673 6 1985 53  Georgiev, Kiril g BUL 2672 0 1965 54  Harikrishna, P. g IND 2672 0 1986 55  Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2670 12 1981 56  Areshchenko, Alexander g UKR 2670 6 1986 57  Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2670 4 1975 58  Zhigalko, Sergei g BLR 2668 13 1989 59  Smirin, Ilia g ISR 2668 11 1968 60  Kurnosov, Igor g RUS 2668 10 1985 61  Najer, Evgeniy g RUS 2665 4 1977 62  Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2662 2 1973 63  Riazantsev, Alexander g RUS 2661 0 1985 64  Vescovi, Giovanni g BRA 2660 20 1978 65  Cheparinov, Ivan g BUL 2660 15 1986 66  Berkes, Ferenc g HUN 2659 9 1985 67  Lastin, Alexander g RUS 2659 4 1976 68  Meier, Georg g GER 2658 12 1987 69  Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2658 10 1990 70  Beliavsky, Alexander G g SLO 2657 18 1953 71  Efimenko, Zahar g UKR 2657 10 1985 72  Ni, Hua g CHN 2657 10 1983 73  Smeets, Jan g NED 2657 10 1985 74  Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2657 9 1977 75  Roiz, Michael g ISR 2657 8 1983 76  Avrukh, Boris g ISR 2656 8 1978 77  So, Wesley g PHI 2656 8 1993 78  Krasenkow, Michal g POL 2656 0 1963 79  Fridman, Daniel g GER 2654 8 1976 80  Ganguly, Surya Shekhar g IND 2654 4 1983 81  Baklan, Vladimir g UKR 2654 2 1978 82  Grachev, Boris g RUS 2653 18 1986 83  Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2653 4 1981 84  Laznicka, Viktor g CZE 2652 16 1988 85  Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2652 4 1985 86  Khismatullin, Denis g RUS 2651 16 1984 87  Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2650 9 1969 88  Sokolov, Ivan g BIH 2649 12 1968 89  Inarkiev, Ernesto g RUS 2649 6 1985 90  Seirawan, Yasser g USA 2649 2 1960 91  Korobov, Anton g UKR 2648 17 1985 92  Postny, Evgeny g ISR 2648 7 1981 93  Le, Quang Liem g VIE 2647 20 1991 94  Pashikian, Arman g ARM 2647 6 1987 95  Landa, Konstantin g RUS 2645 10 1972 96  Milov, Vadim g SUI 2644 6 1972 97  Nyback, Tomi g FIN 2643 13 1985 98  Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2643 10 1966 99  Kazhgaleyev, Murtas g KAZ 2643 9 1973 100  Socko, Bartosz g POL 2643 8 1978 (source: Chasebase.com)

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