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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 |