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| Source: http://www.fide.com. The full list is available for download there. The October FIDE rating list see's Anand confirmed as world number 1 and his rating rises to 2801 after his performances in Dortmund and Mexico City. FIDE confirmed half way through the World Championship in Mexico City that they would rate that event. They have a policy that FIDE events will appear in the first possible rating list and it was obviously easy to squeeze such a small event (with only 8 players not the magnitude of importance) in at the last moment. To have left it out would have made the new list pretty worthless. Vassily Ivanchuk has seen a continuation of the rise which has seen his rating increase 46 points in the year and keeps alive the question as to whether he is actually the best player in the world right now, its a terrible shame he missed out on the current world championship cycle although his nerves in the world championships of the past wouldn't have guaranteed him being any factor at all in Mexico. Its interesting that after all the attention on the young talent in the world that we see two players aged 38 at the top alongside Boris Gelfand at 39 sharing second in Mexico. Alekhine used to say 37 was the peak of a chess players' career (a balance of combinative ability and experience) maybe nothing has changed? Vladimir Kramnik is just a couple of points behind Ivanchuk gaining 16 points at Dortmund and Mexico and should also be heading towards new heights having overcome recent health problems. These three players seem well clear of the rest at the moment with Topalov falling between the chasing pack and the top after a year of declining results, it will be interesting to see what happens when he plays again. Veselin Topalov has dropped a couple of places in spite of not playing at all. Further down Radjabov has gained a place in spite of losing four points in the period. Shirov takes over Dmitry Jakovenko's place after the latter dropped back down to his April level. This is the only change to the composition of the top 10 players in the World. Anatoly Karpov returns back to the list in at 43 in the world after a period of inactivity. Sergey Fedorchuk gained 27 points to jump back in at 69 in the world. 6 players drop out of the list as the bottom rating rises 3 points from 2624 to 2627 (Nielsen and Shabalov at 2626 and Efimenko at 2624 who didn't play at all were the main losers in that). FM Vladimir Afromeev born in 1954 has his performance at the Kotov Memorial (TWIC 662-3) in Tula counted and so moves from 78 to 67 in the world. These events and his rating as a whole are regarded as extremely dubious by many good judges and I'm told there are russian websites saying he openly boasts about how easy it is to get such a high rating. Note there have been some significant and rather silent changes to the list by FIDE. Top 100 players whose ratings have changed are: Kamsky, Eljanov, Van Wely, Milov and a huge change for Naiditsch. In some cases the number of games has dropped, perhaps a whole event has been rated twice or something.
FIDE Top 100 Players October 2007 No. Ju Name t NAT YroB ja06 ap06 ju06 oc06 ja07 ap07 ju07 oc07 Gms 1 1 Anand, Viswanathan........ g IND 1969 2792 2803 2779 2779 2779 2786 2792 2801 21 2 4 Ivanchuk, Vassily......... g UKR 1969 2729 2731 2734 2741 2750 2729 2762 2787 20 3 3 Kramnik, Vladimir......... g RUS 1975 2741 2729 2743 2750 2766 2772 2769 2785 21 4 2 Topalov, Veselin.......... g BUL 1975 2801 2804 2813 2813 2783 2772 2769 2769 0 5 7 Leko, Peter............... g HUN 1979 2740 2738 2738 2741 2749 2738 2751 2755 21 6 5 Morozevich, Alexander..... g RUS 1977 2721 2730 2731 2747 2741 2762 2758 2755 19 7 6 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyaz.... g AZE 1985 2709 2699 2722 2728 2754 2757 2757 2752 11 8 9 Radjabov, Teimour......... g AZE 1987 2700 2717 2728 2729 2729 2747 2746 2742 9 9 8 Aronian, Levon............ g ARM 1982 2752 2756 2761 2741 2744 2759 2750 2741 14 10 11 Shirov, Alexei............ g ESP 1972 2709 2699 2716 2720 2715 2699 2735 2739 11 11 13 Gelfand, Boris............ g ISR 1968 2723 2727 2729 2733 2733 2733 2733 2736 21 12 12 Svidler, Peter............ g RUS 1976 2765 2743 2742 2750 2728 2736 2735 2732 25 13 15 Adams, Michael............ g ENG 1971 2707 2720 2732 2735 2735 2734 2724 2729 16 14 16 Kamsky, Gata.............. g USA 1974 2686 2671 2697 2705 2705 2705 2718 2724 9 15 24 Alekseev, Evgeny.......... g RUS 1985 2634 2640 2644 2639 2661 2679 2689 2716 17 16 14 Grischuk, Alexander....... g RUS 1983 2717 2719 2709 2710 2717 2717 2726 2715 23 17 17 Carlsen, Magnus........... g NOR 1990 2625 2646 2673 2698 2690 2693 2710 2714 25 18 18 Akopian, Vladimir......... g ARM 1971 2704 2706 2713 2713 2700 2698 2708 2713 5 19 10 Jakovenko, Dmitry......... g RUS 1983 2662 2675 2667 2671 2691 2708 2735 2710 23 20 19 Polgar, Judit............. g HUN 1976 2711 2711 2710 2710 2727 2727 2707 2708 9 21 20 Ponomariov, Ruslan........ g UKR 1983 2723 2738 2721 2703 2723 2717 2706 2705 5 22 22 Wang, Yue................. g CHN 1987 2599 2598 2626 2644 2644 2656 2696 2703 27 23 23 Bacrot, Etienne........... g FRA 1983 2717 2708 2707 2705 2705 2709 2695 2695 7 24 35 Karjakin, Sergey.......... g UKR 1990 2660 2661 2679 2672 2678 2686 2678 2694 11 25 25 Bu, Xiangzhi.............. g CHN 1985 2645 2640 2664 2671 2644 2656 2685 2692 38 26 29 Almasi, Zoltan............ g HUN 1976 2646 2657 2672 2664 2669 2675 2682 2691 14 27 36 Malakhov, Vladimir........ g RUS 1980 2694 2691 2691 2682 2663 2679 2676 2690 15 28 27 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam...... g UZB 1979 2670 2673 2672 2672 2682 2677 2683 2690 14 29 32 Dominguez Perez, Lenier... g CUB 1983 2638 2647 2658 2655 2677 2678 2680 2683 11 30 21 Eljanov, Pavel............ g UKR 1983 2655 2665 2651 2658 2675 2686 2701 2681 20 31 38 Milov, Vadim.............. g SUI 1972 2638 2625 2620 2657 2665 2676 2675 2680 42 32 34 Van Wely, Loek............ g NED 1972 2647 2655 2675 2676 2683 2674 2679 2680 40 33 40 Landa, Konstantin......... g RUS 1972 2597 2600 2584 2570 2596 2608 2669 2678 15 34 30 Volokitin, Andrei......... g UKR 1986 2665 2660 2662 2645 2645 2654 2681 2678 5 35 33 Rublevsky, Sergei......... g RUS 1974 2665 2687 2667 2688 2677 2680 2679 2676 11 36 61 Onischuk, Alexander....... g USA 1975 2650 2650 2668 2668 2663 2663 2650 2674 20 37 47 Inarkiev, Ernesto......... g RUS 1985 2597 2598 2625 2628 2669 2669 2663 2674 15 38 51 Zvjaginsev, Vadim......... g RUS 1976 2664 2670 2675 2674 2658 2659 2658 2674 8 39 44 Sokolov, Ivan............. g NED 1968 2689 2676 2652 2670 2652 2655 2666 2673 31 40 42 Sargissian, Gabriel....... g ARM 1983 2603 2612 2667 2667 2658 2651 2667 2673 24 41 41 Movsesian, Sergei......... g SVK 1978 2632 2618 2637 2637 2637 2642 2667 2670 20 42 52 Cheparinov, Ivan.......... g BUL 1986 2625 2635 2632 2632 2640 2646 2657 2670 17 43 -- Karpov, Anatoly........... g RUS 1951 2672 2672 2668 2668 2668 2668 2668 2670 9 44 48 Krasenkow, Michal......... g POL 1963 2636 2650 2635 2647 2651 2661 2660 2668 33 45 45 Harikrishna, P............ g IND 1986 2673 2680 2682 2674 2673 2650 2664 2668 24 46 26 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter... g ROM 1976 2693 2695 2693 2690 2689 2693 2683 2668 11 47 56 Gashimov, Vugar........... g AZE 1986 2625 2659 2644 2643 2658 2644 2655 2663 23 48 55 Tkachiev, Vladislav....... g FRA 1973 2642 2643 2645 2645 2649 2652 2655 2661 19 49 37 Sasikiran, Krishnan....... g IND 1981 2670 2692 2681 2675 2700 2690 2676 2661 11 50 43 Vallejo Pons, Francisco... g ESP 1982 2650 2666 2674 2674 2679 2676 2666 2660 5 51 71 Nikolic, Predrag.......... g BIH 1960 2596 2596 2626 2626 2626 2631 2646 2657 18 52 62 Bologan, Viktor........... g MDA 1971 2661 2666 2645 2659 2658 2636 2650 2657 4 53 58 Lautier, Joel............. g FRA 1973 2682 2682 2675 2667 2656 2661 2654 2657 4 54 54 Navara, David............. g CZE 1985 2660 2658 2719 2725 2719 2720 2656 2656 0 55 53 Sutovsky, Emil............. g ISR 1977 2624 2628 2607 2607 2629 2637 2656 2655 18 56 72 Fressinet, Laurent........ g FRA 1981 2625 2633 2626 2628 2646 2644 2646 2654 26 57 60 Bareev, Evgeny............ g RUS 1966 2698 2701 2683 2683 2643 2643 2653 2653 0 58 39 Miroshnichenko, Evgenij... g UKR 1978 2619 2597 2616 2626 2632 2646 2671 2651 40 59 28 Short, Nigel D............ g ENG 1965 2676 2677 2676 2677 2691 2691 2683 2649 36 60 46 Georgiev, Kiril........... g BUL 1965 2645 2677 2685 2680 2661 2660 2663 2649 21 61 70 Nakamura, Hikaru.......... g USA 1987 2644 2664 2632 2640 2651 2658 2647 2648 21 62 50 Volkov, Sergey............ g RUS 1974 2629 2620 2628 2628 2636 2640 2659 2648 11 63 77 Naiditsch, Arkadij........ g GER 1985 2657 2664 2665 2676 2663 2654 2644 2647 20 64 49 Socko, Bartosz............ g POL 1978 2610 2606 2621 2630 2629 2641 2660 2646 34 65 57 Tomashevsky, Evgeny....... g RUS 1987 2586 2595 2594 2595 2624 2641 2654 2646 19 66 79 Moiseenko, Alexander...... g UKR 1980 2657 2662 2649 2632 2627 2630 2641 2646 18 67 78 Afromeev, Vladimir........ f RUS 1954 2573 2612 2620 2635 2628 2628 2642 2646 12 68 59 Beliavsky, Alexander G.... g SLO 1953 2626 2622 2625 2639 2639 2648 2653 2646 10 69 -- Fedorchuk, Sergey A....... g UKR 1981 2590 2576 2592 2599 2601 2603 2618 2645 59 70 96 Predojevic, Borki......... g BIH 1987 2553 2566 2568 2590 2587 2609 2628 2645 18 71 68 Motylev, Alexander........ g RUS 1979 2638 2660 2662 2662 2647 2642 2648 2645 14 72 65 Zhang, Pengxiang.......... g CHN 1980 2638 2623 2622 2636 2643 2657 2649 2644 38 73 76 Jobava, Baadur............. g GEO 1983 2614 2646 2651 2650 2650 2658 2644 2644 24 74 93 Roiz, Michael............. g ISR 1983 2599 2590 2611 2611 2605 2605 2630 2644 20 75 67 Tiviakov, Sergei.......... g NED 1973 2669 2669 2668 2680 2667 2663 2648 2643 53 76 102 Wang, Hao................. g CHN 1989 2593 2605 2610 2622 2619 2638 2624 2643 47 77 90 Khalifman, Alexander...... g RUS 1966 2660 2640 2622 2622 2619 2624 2632 2643 10 78 75 Izoria, Zviad............. g GEO 1984 2652 2647 2660 2657 2644 2641 2645 2643 9 79 31 Ni, Hua................... g CHN 1983 2614 2607 2607 2621 2632 2654 2681 2641 29 80 74 Avrukh, Boris............. g ISR 1978 2633 2633 2641 2644 2644 2644 2645 2641 15 81 66 Baklan, Vladimir.......... g UKR 1978 2601 2606 2621 2622 2618 2618 2648 2639 42 82 92 Stellwagen, Daniel........ g NED 1987 2573 2543 2575 2576 2585 2600 2631 2639 19 83 64 Smirin, Ilia.............. g ISR 1968 2662 2662 2659 2659 2654 2650 2649 2639 17 84 73 Areshchenko, Alexander.... g UKR 1986 2670 2660 2641 2640 2644 2647 2645 2638 5 85 -- Amonatov, Farrukh......... g TJK 1978 2564 2569 2542 2567 2559 2574 2598 2637 46 86 63 Timofeev, Artyom.......... g RUS 1985 2653 2646 2657 2662 2663 2658 2650 2637 10 87 83 Smirnov, Pavel............ g RUS 1982 2614 2614 2613 2623 2621 2631 2636 2636 0 88 82 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw....... g POL 1987 2605 2597 2622 2630 2637 2620 2637 2635 11 89 -- Najer, Evgeniy............ g RUS 1977 2652 2653 2677 2648 2605 2624 2623 2635 9 90 99 Bauer, Christian.......... g FRA 1977 2627 2638 2599 2589 2609 2629 2626 2634 30 91 -- Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime... g FRA 1990 2542 2576 2577 2575 2573 2593 2595 2634 24 92 85 Sakaev, Konstantin........ g RUS 1974 2649 2637 2642 2641 2641 2633 2634 2634 0 93 87 Zhang, Zhong.............. g CHN 1978 2629 2640 2639 2609 2618 2621 2634 2634 0 94 89 Lputian, Smbat G.......... g ARM 1958 2613 2619 2634 2634 2634 2634 2633 2633 0 95 91 Ye, Jiangchuan............ g CHN 1960 2641 2641 2641 2641 2641 2632 2632 2632 0 96 95 Istratescu, Andrei........ g ROM 1975 2618 2621 2612 2616 2619 2625 2629 2631 9 97 100 Mchedlishvili, Mikheil.... g GEO 1979 2568 2567 2561 2583 2583 2609 2624 2631 9 98 86 Kobalia, Mikhail.......... g RUS 1978 2654 2654 2647 2643 2639 2639 2634 2631 4 99 69 Miton, Kamil............... g POL 1984 2646 2646 2638 2638 2655 2653 2648 2628 28 100 88 Gurevich, Mikhail......... g TUR 1959 2633 2643 2643 2648 2635 2635 2633 2627 14 101 98 Vladimirov, Evgeny........ g KAZ 1957 2616 2616 2616 2616 2616 2627 2627 2627 0 Dropping out in October No. Ju Name t NAT YroB ja06 ap06 ju06 oc06 ja07 ap07 ju07 oc07 Gms 80 59 Nielsen, Peter Heine...... g DEN 1973 2644 2646 2640 2640 2651 2649 2638 2626 15 81 -- Shabalov, Alexander....... g USA 1967 2595 2605 2604 2575 2602 2606 2637 2626 38 84 -- Sadvakasov, Darmen........ g KAZ 1979 2629 2619 2613 2596 2615 2618 2635 * 94 74 Ehlvest, Jaan............. g USA 1962 2619 2607 2593 2597 2610 2640 2629 2601 22 97 82 Fridman, Daniel........... g LAT 1976 2559 2562 2569 2604 2626 2635 2628 2621 10 101 -- Efimenko, Zahar........... g UKR 1985 2666 2662 2632 2612 2616 2620 2624 2624 0 * Kazakhstan not in the main list download probably due to fees owed. |
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