[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: FIDE Ratings Lists for October 2006

[Email subscription to blog articles]

Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
FIDE Ratings Lists for October 2006
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1159923896.shtml


   Even though we don't play chess for the sake of our ratings, it's a
   rare player who pays no attention to that collection of digits
   associated with his or her name. In this, I'm sure that even top
   players are no different - especially as the glorious number seven,
   when found in the hundreds column, offers the promise of other large
   numbers affixed to dollar signs. It's fun for us as fans, too, to see
   how our favorite players are doing, how fast the prodigies are
   progressing, and so on.
   So: curious parties are encouraged to click [1]here and have a look at
   the newest FIDE top player lists - and note the further links in the
   upper right corner of that page to the top 50 women, top 20 juniors,
   top 20 girls and other interesting information. What follows is a
   mini-summary of those lists: the top of the top.
   Top 20 Players:
   1. Veselin Topalov 2813
   2. Viswanathan Anand 2779
   3. Vladimir Kramnik 2750
   4. Peter Svidler 2750
   5. Alexander Morozevich 2747
   6. Vassily Ivanchuk 2741
   7. Levon Aronian 2741
   8. Peter Leko 2741
   9. Michael Adams 2735
   10. Boris Gelfand 2733
   11. Teimour Radjabov 2729
   12. Shakriyar Mamedyarov 2728
   13. David Navara 2725
   14. Alexei Shirov 2720
   15. Vladimir Akopian 2713
   16. Judit Polgar 2710
   17. Alexander Grischuk 2710
   18. Etienne Bacrot 2705
   19. Gata Kamsky 2705
   20. Ruslan Ponomariov 2703
   Top 10 Women:
   1. Judit Polgar 2710
   2. Humpy Koneru 2545
   3. Alexandra Kosteniuk 2534
   4. Pia Cramling 2528
   5. Yuhua Xu 2517
   6. Maia Chiburdanidze 2504
   7. Chen Zhu 2501
   8. Nadezhda Kosintseva 2493
   9. Antoaneta Stefanova 2489
   10. Yifan Hou 2481 (born in 1994!!)
   Top 10 Juniors (U-21):
   1. Teimour Radjabov 2729
   2. Magnus Carlsen 2698 (Note: he's also #21 on the big list and at
   just 15 years of age, is on the verge of becoming the youngest 2700 in
   history.)
   3. Pentala Harikrishna 2674
   4. Sergey Karjakin 2672
   5. Andrei Volokitin 2645
   6. Yue Wang 2644
   7. Vugar Gashimov 2643
   8. Alexander Areshchenko 2640
   9. Hikaru Nakamura 2640
   10. Ivan Cheparinov 2632
   Top 10 Girls:
   1. Humpy Koneru 2545
   2. Yifan Hou 2481
   3. Marie Sebag 2471
   4. Yang Shen 2468
   5. Kateryna Lahno 2459
   6. Tatiana Kosintseva 2458
   7. Anna Muzychuk 2452
   8. Nana Dzagnidze 2432
   9. Elena Tairova 2415
   10. Qian Huang 2403

References

   1. http://fide.com/ratings/top.phtml?list=men