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FIDE January 2003 Rating List: Top 100

Source: http://www.fide.com. The full list is available for download there.

The FIDE January 2003 list is out. A quick look at the top 100 shows big changes throughout the list because of the Olympiad. Kasparov gains 9 points, Adams drops 11 points, Shirov back in the top 10, Akopian and Khalifman gain, Judit Polgar at 13 in the World is the highest she's been in years, Ivanchuk drops down to 15 and below 2700, Karpov down to 20 in the world, Morozevich's decline continues down from 10th to 23rd in the World, Smirin drops 19 points, Landa gains, Rublevsky loses 20, Korchnoi back in the top 50, Khenkin gains 24 points, Pelletier gains 37 points and jumps into the top 100 for the first time as does Peter Acs (gains 33). Granda Zuniga returns to the top 100 with a gain of points after a number of years inactivity, Hichem Hamdouchi gains 22 points to become possibly the first African player in the top 100, 17 year old Evgeny Alekseev gain 21 points to enter the list for the first time Oleg Korneev gains 61 points to reenter the top 100, Pavel Tregubov returns to the top 100, Levon Aronian gains 29 points to enter the top 100, out of the top 100 are Artur Jussupow, Vadim Milov, Laurent Fressinet, Andrei Istratescu, Giovanni Vescovi, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Joel Benjamin, Evgenij Agrest, Joerg Hickl, Peng Xiaomin, Valeriy Neverov and Bu Xiangzhi.

No. Name                              t  NAT  ju01 oc01 ja02 ap02 ju02 oc02 ja03 Gms
  1 Kasparov, Gary..................  g  RUS  2838 2838 2838 2838 2838 2838 2847   9
  2 Kramnik, Vladimir...............  g  RUS  2802 2809 2809 2809 2807 2807 2807   0
  3 Anand, Viswanathan..............  g  IND  2794 2770 2757 2752 2755 2755 2753  11
  4 Topalov, Veselin................  g  BUL  2711 2733 2739 2745 2745 2743 2743   0
  5 Leko, Peter.....................  g  HUN  2730 2739 2713 2707 2717 2743 2736  11
  6 Adams, Michael..................  g  ENG  2744 2731 2742 2744 2752 2745 2734  20
  7 Ponomariov, Ruslan..............  g  UKR  2684 2684 2727 2743 2743 2743 2734  11
  8 Bareev, Evgeny..................  g  RUS  2719 2719 2707 2724 2726 2737 2729   7
  9 Shirov, Alexei..................  g  ESP  2706 2706 2715 2704 2697 2699 2723  16
 10 Grischuk, Alexander.............  g  RUS  2669 2666 2671 2702 2702 2702 2712  18
 11 Akopian, Vladimir...............  g  ARM  2660 2660 2680 2678 2689 2689 2703  18
 12 Khalifman, Alexander............  g  RUS  2700 2702 2688 2698 2690 2690 2702  22
 13 Polgar, Judit (GM) w ...........  g  HUN  2686 2686 2677 2677 2681 2685 2700  25
 14 Gelfand, Boris..................  g  ISR  2704 2701 2703 2707 2710 2704 2700  14
 15 Ivanchuk, Vassily...............  g  UKR  2731 2731 2717 2711 2711 2709 2699  25
 16 Svidler, Peter..................  g  RUS  2695 2686 2688 2688 2690 2690 2693  16
 17 Short, Nigel D..................  g  ENG  2664 2675 2663 2673 2682 2684 2690  20
 18 Dreev, Alexey...................  g  RUS  2690 2676 2683 2677 2676 2673 2690  16
 19 Sokolov, Ivan...................  g  NED  2659 2658 2659 2647 2677 2684 2688  27
 20 Karpov, Anatoly.................  g  RUS  2692 2692 2693 2690 2687 2688 2688   0
 21 Ye, Jiangchuan..................  g  CHN  2677 2681 2676 2676 2676 2667 2682  19
 22 Azmaiparashvili, Zurab..........  g  GEO  2674 2674 2676 2676 2676 2666 2678  28
 23 Morozevich, Alexander...........  g  RUS  2749 2742 2742 2718 2716 2707 2678  16
 24 Malakhov, Vladimir..............  g  RUS  2637 2637 2647 2663 2668 2670 2677  22
 25 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam............  g  UZB  2704 2706 2695 2674 2648 2653 2676  22
 26 Almasi, Zoltan..................  g  HUN  2630 2630 2644 2650 2672 2672 2676  13
 27 Bacrot, Etienne.................  g  FRA  2653 2653 2649 2653 2653 2653 2671  35
 28 Zvjaginsev, Vadim...............  g  RUS  2638 2640 2656 2645 2668 2680 2671   6
 29 Lautier, Joel...................  g  FRA  2675 2653 2687 2675 2663 2665 2670  18
 30 Van Wely, Loek..................  g  NED  2695 2714 2697 2642 2645 2681 2668  24
 31 Vaganian, Rafael A..............  g  ARM  2650 2650 2662 2664 2667 2667 2667   0
 32 Sasikiran, Krishnan.............  g  IND  2589 2569 2569 2633 2650 2670 2664  16
 33 Smirin, Ilia....................  g  ISR  2702 2698 2702 2685 2676 2683 2664  11
 34 Movsesian, Sergei...............  g  SVK  2627 2631 2624 2624 2654 2651 2663  21
 35 Onischuk, Alexander.............  g  USA  2667 2660 2655 2641 2644 2649 2658   9
 36 Georgiev, Kiril.................  g  MKD  2695 2686 2655 2654 2658 2658 2654  24
 37 Sutovsky, Emil..................  g  ISR  2651 2664 2656 2660 2658 2657 2651  20
 38 Landa, Konstantin...............  g  RUS  2619 2619 2619 2623 2621 2632 2649  34
 39 Beliavsky, Alexander G..........  g  SLO  2659 2668 2649 2661 2652 2650 2649  30
 40 Piket, Jeroen...................  g  NED  2630 2649 2659 2659 2646 2646 2646   0
 41 Sakaev, Konstantin..............  g  RUS  2630 2639 2649 2649 2647 2647 2645  10
 42 Rublevsky, Sergei...............  g  RUS  2639 2634 2655 2657 2658 2664 2644  20
 43 Korchnoi, Viktor................  g  SUI  2617 2639 2633 2635 2620 2634 2642  25
 44 Tkachiev, Vladislav.............  g  FRA  2642 2632 2634 2633 2625 2632 2642   8
 45 Lutz, Christopher...............  g  GER  2643 2643 2644 2644 2650 2645 2640  14
 46 Motylev, Alexander..............  g  RUS  2627 2641 2639 2622 2634 2634 2640   7
 47 Nikolic, Predrag................  g  BIH  2652 2652 2653 2653 2661 2661 2638  27
 48 Lputian, Smbat G................  g  ARM  2608 2618 2634 2634 2627 2627 2638  18
 49 Lastin, Alexander...............  g  RUS  2628 2628 2630 2619 2625 2625 2636  18
 50 Seirawan, Yasser................  g  USA  2644 2644 2644 2631 2618 2629 2636   9
 51 Tiviakov, Sergei................  g  NED  2618 2599 2614 2625 2628 2631 2635  24
 52 Kobalia, Mikhail................  g  RUS  2595 2603 2620 2602 2625 2625 2635  17
 53 Gurevich, Mikhail...............  g  BEL  2633 2605 2641 2641 2649 2634 2634   0
 54 Hjartarson, Johann .............  g  ISL  2633 2633 2633 2634 2634 2634 2634   0
 55 Aleksandrov, Aleksej............  g  BLR  2646 2645 2645 2654 2646 2621 2633  23
 56 Krasenkow, Michal...............  g  POL  2573 2592 2632 2641 2657 2651 2633  16
 57 Bologan, Viktor.................  g  MDA  2655 2668 2651 2652 2631 2627 2630  26
 58 Graf, Alexander.................  g  GER  2610 2610 2605 2623 2624 2635 2630  24
 59 Vallejo Pons, Francisco.........  g  ESP  2630 2630 2629 2638 2648 2635 2629  29
 60 Macieja, Bartlomiej.............  g  POL  2588 2582 2612 2585 2607 2615 2629  22
 61 Kaidanov, Gregory S.............  g  USA  2605 2605 2596 2616 2638 2646 2629  10
 62 Xu, Jun.........................  g  CHN  2646 2654 2654 2654 2654 2643 2626  18
 63 Epishin, Vladimir...............  g  RUS  2583 2583 2599 2606 2643 2628 2626  16
 64 Huebner, Robert Dr..............  g  GER  2612 2612 2628 2628 2634 2640 2625  18
 65 Khenkin, Igor...................  g  GER  2579 2572 2598 2587 2598 2603 2624  26
 66 Zhang, Zhong....................  g  CHN  2667 2657 2656 2639 2637 2620 2624  26
 67 Volkov, Sergey..................  g  RUS  2578 2578 2567 2609 2636 2642 2624  24
 68 Radjabov, Teimour...............  g  AZE  2558 2567 2599 2610 2618 2628 2624  23
 69 Pelletier, Yannick..............  g  SUI  2531 2545 2571 2568 2571 2587 2624  21
 70 Sadler, Matthew.................  g  ENG  2631 2631 2631 2631 2624 2624 2624   0
 71 Granda Zuniga, Julio E..........  g  PER  2605 2605 2605 2605 2605 2605 2623  25
 72 Acs, Peter......................  g  HUN  2514 2530 2560 2529 2560 2591 2623  15
 73 Goldin, Alexander...............  g  USA  2594 2612 2630 2618 2609 2630 2621   9
 74 Nielsen, Peter Heine............  g  DEN  2593 2620 2642 2636 2626 2620 2620  13
 75 Ftacnik, Lubomir................  g  SVK  2580 2566 2574 2576 2602 2603 2616  13
 76 Filippov, Valerij...............  g  RUS  2617 2617 2625 2612 2615 2615 2616   7
 77 Hamdouchi, Hichem...............  g  MAR  2533 2501 ---- 2570 ---- 2593 2615  15
 78 Pigusov, Evgeny.................  g  RUS  2613 2613 2623 2623 2622 2622 2615   7
 79 Alekseev, Evgeny................  g  RUS  2544 2548 2580 2567 2580 2593 2614  14
 80 Korneev, Oleg...................  g  RUS  2572 2544 2583 2599 2583 2551 2613  63
 81 Bruzon, Lazaro..................  g  CUB  2573 2564 2590 2569 2590 2613 2613  18
 82 Shabalov, Alexander.............  g  USA  2574 2585 2606 2622 2624 2621 2613  14
 83 Tregubov, Pavel V...............  g  RUS  2617 2611 2599 2627 2599 2594 2612  24
 84 Nunn, John D.M..................  g  ENG  2584 2595 2595 2595 2611 2611 2611   0
 85 Aronian, Levon..................  g  ARM  2562 2571 ---- 2571 2585 2581 2610  31
 86 Dorfman, Josif D................  g  FRA  2602 2599 2602 2613 2617 2617 2610  21
 87 Hansen, Curt....................  g  DEN  2626 2613 2613 2613 2625 2610 2610   0
 88 Hodgson, Julian M...............  g  ENG  2581 2589 2598 2598 2608 2608 2608   0
 89 Baklan, Vladimir................  g  UKR  2599 2590 2609 2618 2614 2607 2605  16
 90 Dautov, Rustem..................  g  GER  2630 2630 2636 2636 2611 2617 2604  21
 91 Eingorn, Vereslav S.............  g  UKR  2598 2601 2604 2598 2604 2600 2604  16
 92 Rustemov, Alexander.............  g  RUS  2607 2611 2589 2598 2589 2597 2604  12
 93 Kazhgaleyev, Murtas.............  g  KAZ  2585 2569 2561 2583 2604 2604 2604   0
 94 Shipov, Sergei..................  g  RUS  2625 2625 2630 2613 2613 2604 2604   0
 95 Dominguez, Lenier...............  g  CUB  2585 2596 2594 2601 2613 2608 2602  13
 96 Hracek, Zbynek..................  g  CZE  2610 2610 2586 2596 2600 2607 2601  20
 97 Giorgadze, Giorgi...............  g  GEO  2585 2585 2591 2591 2591 2601 2601   0
 98 Ehlvest, Jaan...................  g  EST  2627 2626 2589 2588 2600 2600 2600  17
 99 Novikov, Igor A.................  g  USA  2593 2588 2583 2603 2601 2592 2598  15
100 Najdoski, Toni..................  g  MKD  2600 2600 ---- 2600 ---- 2598 2598   0
101 Kharlov, Andrei.................  g  RUS  2656 2656 2638 2633 2609 2606 2597  24
102 Moiseenko, Alexander............  g  UKR  2581 2569 2578 2575 2578 2570 2597  19
103 Kacheishvili, Giorgi............  g  GEO  2583 2583 2588 2584 ---- 2597 2597   0
104 Vladimirov, Evgeny..............  g  KAZ  2612 2592 2597 2605 2597 2597 2597   0