[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: FIDE's October 2008 Rating List

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
FIDE's October 2008 Rating List
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1222738402.shtml


   Two days early! Here are the top 20, though for those of you who have
   kept up with the Live Top List*, none of this is exactly a surprise:
   1. Topalov 2791
   2. Morozevich 2787
   3. Ivanchuk 2786
   4. Carlsen 2786
   5. Anand 2783
   6. Kramnik 2772
   7. Aronian 2757
   8. Radjabov 2751
   9. Leko 2747
   10. Jakovenko 2737
   11. Wang Yue 2736
   12. Adams 2734
   13. Movsesian 2732
   14. Mamedyarov 2731
   15. Karjakin 2730
   16. Kamsky 2729
   17. Svidler 2727
   18. Shirov 2726
   19. Eljanov 2720
   20. Gelfand 2719
   Here's the women's top 10 (give or take 1):
   1. Ju.Polgar 2711
   2. Koneru 2618
   3. Hou Yifan 2578 (Note: born in 1994, she's #1 on the girls' list and
   just missed the top 20 juniors list. She's almost surely #1 among all
   players born in 1994 or later.)
   4. Xie Jun 2574
   5. Cramling 2550
   6. Stefanova 2548
   7. Sebag 2533
   8. Kosteniuk 2525
   9. Zhao Xue 2518
   10. Danielian 2513
   11. T.Kosinsteva 2513
   Moving on to the kiddies (U-20), the top 10 looks like this:
   1. Carlsen 2786 (b. 1990)
   2. Karjakin 2730 (1990)
   3. Vachier-Lagrave 2716 (1990)
   4. Wang Hao 2696 (1989)
   5. Caruana 2640 (1992)
   6. R. Mamedov 2631 (1988)
   7. Kuzubov 2622 (1990)
   8. Li Chao 2622 (1989)
   9. Nepomniachtchi 2616 (1990)
   10. Zhou Jianchao 2612 (1988)
   (1990 was quite the year for hatching prodigies!)
   The full lists and still more data can be found [1]here.
   * N.B. There are some discrepancies between the new FIDE list and the
   Live Top List. The reason is that the latter is kept up-to-date, while
   the former (with few exceptions) cuts off events played in the last
   month.

References

   1. http://ratings.fide.com/toplist.phtml