FIDE ratings: Anand leads, Ivanchuk back in top five

Source: ChessBase News

World Champion Viswanathan Anand is once again the world's top ranked player, overtaking Magnus Carlsen by two points after the Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee. Armenian GM Levon Aronian is close behind in the 2808+ club. Vassily Ivanchuk returned to the top five bracket after his success in Gilbraltar Masters. March 1st 2011 FIDE rankings.

FIDE March 1st 2011 – Top 100 Players

Rank	Name	Title	Nation	Rating	Gms	Born
1	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2817	13	1969
2	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2815	13	1990
3	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2808	13	1982
4	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2785	13	1975
5	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2779	19	1969
6	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2776	0	1990
7	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2775	0	1975
8	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2774	13	1987
9	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2772	0	1985
10	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2747	13	1983
11	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2746	9	1986
12	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2744	0	1987
13	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2743	13	1983
14	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2734	0	1987
15	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2733	9	1974
16	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2733	0	1968
17	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2730	0	1976
18	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2729	13	1990
19	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2728	22	1990
20	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2728	13	1989
21	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2724	0	1983
22	Navara, David	g	CZE	2722	22	1985
23	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2720	9	1987
24	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2719	0	1976
25	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2718	14	1983
26	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2718	9	1983
27	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2717	0	1979
28	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2716	19	1992
29	Movsesian, Sergei	g	ARM	2716	18	1978
30	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2716	10	1971
31	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2716	0	1983
32	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2714	0	1980
33	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2711	22	1987
34	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2708	13	1985
35	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2707	19	1982
36	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2707	9	1987
37	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2707	0	1983
38	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2701	13	1972
39	Dreev, Aleksey	g	RUS	2697	9	1969
40	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2694	9	1977
41	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2693	13	1981
42	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2692	9	1977
43	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2690	15	1994
44	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2689	40	1991
45	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2688	11	1985
46	Laznicka, Viktor	g	CZE	2688	0	1988
47	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2687	22	1986
48	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2687	9	1979
49	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2686	9	1990
50	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	g	CUB	2686	0	1982
51	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2686	0	1976
52	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2684	9	1985
53	McShane, Luke J	g	ENG	2683	13	1984
54	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2682	9	1981
55	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	2680	23	1989
56	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2679	9	1985
57	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2678	19	1975
58	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2678	0	1985
59	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2678	0	1974
60	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2677	15	1972
61	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2677	9	1979
62	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2677	9	1986
63	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2677	0	1985
64	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2676	19	1965
65	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2676	13	1983
66	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2675	20	1986
67	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2675	0	1971
68	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2674	11	1985
69	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2673	10	1976
70	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2673	4	1980
71	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	2672	9	1978
72	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2671	23	1971
73	Miroshnichenko, Evgenij	g	UKR	2670	0	1978
74	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2670	0	1973
75	Meier, Georg	g	GER	2669	7	1987
76	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2667	19	1993
77	Mamedov, Rauf	g	AZE	2667	9	1988
78	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2666	10	1965
79	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	2665	19	1985
80	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2665	10	1986
81	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2664	20	1986
82	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2663	15	1976
83	Bareev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2663	0	1966
84	Khismatullin, Denis	g	RUS	2662	18	1984
85	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	g	UKR	2662	16	1981
86	Fridman, Daniel	g	GER	2661	10	1976
87	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	2661	10	1983
88	Socko, Bartosz	g	POL	2660	18	1978
89	Smeets, Jan	g	NED	2660	15	1985
90	Zhou, Jianchao	g	CHN	2660	9	1988
91	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	2658	5	1968
92	Feller, Sebastien	g	FRA	2657	0	1991
93	Nyback, Tomi	g	FIN	2656	2	1985
94	Kurnosov, Igor	g	RUS	2653	9	1985
95	Potkin, Vladimir	g	RUS	2653	8	1982
96	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	2653	0	1972
97	Yu, Yangyi	g	CHN	2652	27	1994
98	Gharamian, Tigran	g	FRA	2650	13	1984
99	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2647	9	1985
100	Gustafsson, Jan	g	GER	2647	7	1979

Top gains by players

New	Old	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games
5	9	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2779 (+15)	19 (+19)
8	10	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2774 (+23)	13 (-3)
11	13	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2746 (+10)	9 (-1)
19	31	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2728 (+13)	22 (+16)
22	34	Navara, David	g	CZE	2722 (+14)	22 (+22)
23	33	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2720 (+11)	9 (-2)
44	79	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2689 (+25)	40 (+35)
47	66	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2687 (+16)	22 (+13)
53	78	McShane, Luke J	g	ENG	2683 (+19)	13 (+6)
64	89	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2676 (+18)	19 (+6)
66	84	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2675 (+15)	20 (+8)
85	99	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	g	UKR	2662 (+12)	16 (-6)
87	102	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	2661 (+12)	10 (+10)

Top losses by players

New	Old	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games
10	7	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2747 (-26)	13 (-7)
33	20	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2711 (-15)	22 (+22)
38	24	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2701 (-21)	13 (-2)
41	35	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2693 (-14)	13 (-2)
45	37	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2688 (-13)	11 (+11)
56	48	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2679 (-10)	9 (+9)
57	46	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2678 (-11)	19 (+6)
61	50	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2677 (-10)	9 (+6)
72	44	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2671 (-22)	23 (+16)
79	56	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	2665 (-16)	19 (+19)
99	68	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2647 (-23)	9 (-9)

FIDE Top 100 Women March 2011

Rank	Name	Title	Nation	Rating	Gms	Born
1	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2686	0	1976
2	Koneru, Humpy	g	IND	2607	0	1987
3	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2602	0	1994
4	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2567	10	1987
5	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	m	RUS	2567	10	1985
6	Kosintseva, Tatiana	g	RUS	2559	10	1986
7	Lahno, Kateryna	g	UKR	2531	18	1989
8	Muzychuk, Anna	m	SLO	2528	4	1990
9	Cmilyte, Viktorija	g	LTU	2526	10	1983
10	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2524	10	1991
11	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2523	10	1979
12	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2519	9	1991
13	Zhu, Chen	g	QAT	2506	10	1976
14	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	g	RUS	2503	22	1984
15	Chiburdanidze, Maia	g	GEO	2502	0	1961
16	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2499	10	1978
17	Galliamova, Alisa	m	RUS	2497	0	1972
18	Zhao, Xue	g	CHN	2495	18	1985
19	Socko, Monika	g	POL	2495	15	1978
20	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2489	0	1986
21	Cramling, Pia	g	SWE	2484	21	1963
22	Xu, Yuhua	g	CHN	2484	0	1976
23	Ruan, Lufei	wg	CHN	2480	0	1987
24	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2476	0	1992
25	Danielian, Elina	g	ARM	2475	9	1978
26	Mkrtchian, Lilit	m	ARM	2475	0	1982
27	Krush, Irina	m	USA	2472	15	1983
28	Gunina, Valentina	wg	RUS	2472	9	1989
29	Khotenashvili, Bela	m	GEO	2465	18	1988
30	Paehtz, Elisabeth	m	GER	2464	6	1985
31	Melia, Salome	m	GEO	2462	21	1987
32	Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan	g	SCO	2458	0	1968
33	Skripchenko, Almira	m	FRA	2458	0	1976
34	Dembo, Yelena	m	GRE	2457	0	1983
35	Hoang Thanh Trang	g	HUN	2456	0	1980
36	Hunt, Harriet V	m	ENG	2454	0	1978
37	Ushenina, Anna	m	UKR	2454	0	1985
38	Polgar, Sofia	m	HUN	2450	0	1974
39	Pogonina, Natalija	wg	RUS	2446	18	1985
40	Rajlich, Iweta	m	POL	2446	0	1981
41	Repkova, Eva	m	SVK	2446	0	1975
42	Atalik, Ekaterina	m	TUR	2444	0	1982
43	Zhukova, Natalia	g	UKR	2443	10	1979
44	Shen, Yang	wg	CHN	2443	0	1989
45	Javakhishvili, Lela	m	GEO	2437	17	1984
46	Khurtsidze, Nino	m	GEO	2436	12	1975
47	Gaponenko, Inna	m	UKR	2435	19	1976
48	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	m	MGL	2434	9	1987
49	Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman	m	IND	2431	11	1979
50	Turova, Irina	m	RUS	2428	15	1979
51	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2428	0	1991
52	Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina	m	RUS	2427	0	1974
53	Zaiatz, Elena	m	RUS	2426	0	1969
54	Paikidze, Nazi	wg	GEO	2425	21	1993
55	Moser, Eva	m	AUT	2425	14	1982
56	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2425	9	1991
57	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	m	RUS	2423	9	1992
58	Khukhashvili, Sopiko	m	GEO	2421	12	1985
59	Houska, Jovanka	m	ENG	2419	0	1980
60	Vasilevich, Tatjana	m	UKR	2418	0	1977
61	Foisor, Cristina-Adela	m	ROU	2416	24	1967
62	Peptan, Corina-Isabela	m	ROU	2415	9	1978
63	Tania, Sachdev	m	IND	2407	24	1986
64	Ovod, Evgenija	m	RUS	2405	9	1982
65	Romanko, Marina	m	RUS	2402	16	1986
66	Jackova, Jana	m	CZE	2402	0	1982
67	Madl, Ildiko	m	HUN	2402	0	1969
68	Stockova, Zuzana	m	SVK	2400	0	1977
69	Matnadze, Ana	m	GEO	2399	8	1983
70	Wang, Yu A.	m	CHN	2398	0	1982
71	Shadrina, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2397	0	1974
72	Huang, Qian	wg	CHN	2394	0	1986
73	Michna, Marta	wg	GER	2389	0	1978
74	Zawadzka, Jolanta	wg	POL	2386	18	1987
75	Cori T., Deysi	wg	PER	2386	0	1993
76	Zdebskaja, Natalia	wg	UKR	2384	0	1986
77	Savina, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2383	9	1992
78	Gara, Anita	m	HUN	2382	0	1983
79	Alexandrova, Olga	m	ESP	2381	0	1978
80	Kononenko, Tatiana	m	UKR	2381	0	1978
81	Matveeva, Svetlana	m	RUS	2380	0	1969
82	Bojkovic, Natasa	m	SRB	2379	0	1971
83	Tsereteli, Tamar	wg	GEO	2379	0	1985
84	Galojan, Lilit	m	ARM	2377	9	1983
85	Kovanova, Baira	wg	RUS	2376	24	1987
86	Batsiashvili, Nino	wg	GEO	2376	12	1987
87	Lomineishvili, Maia	m	GEO	2376	12	1977
88	Ding, Yixin	wg	CHN	2376	0	1991
89	Charkhalashvili, Inga	wg	GEO	2375	0	1983
90	Peng, Zhaoqin	g	NED	2372	0	1968
91	Pourkashiyan, Atousa	wg	IRI	2371	18	1988
92	Stepovaia, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2371	13	1965
93	Zozulia, Anna	m	BEL	2369	23	1980
94	Milliet, Sophie	m	FRA	2369	11	1983
95	Gu, Xiaobing	wg	CHN	2369	0	1985
96	Soumya, Swaminathan	wg	IND	2368	18	1989
97	Fierro Baquero, Martha L.	m	ECU	2367	9	1977
98	Goletiani, Rusudan	m	USA	2367	0	1980
99	Vajda, Szidonia	m	HUN	2365	0	1979
100	Gaprindashvili, Nona	g	GEO	2362	0	1941
101	Rogule, Laura	wg	LAT	2362	0	1988

FIDE Top 20 Juniors March 2011

Rank	Name	Title	Nation	Rating	Gms	Born
1	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2716	19	1992
2	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2690	15	1994
3	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2689	40	1991
4	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2667	19	1993
5	Feller, Sebastien	g	FRA	2657	0	1991
6	Yu, Yangyi	g	CHN	2652	27	1994
7	Sjugirov, Sanan	g	RUS	2643	26	1993
8	Ding, Liren	g	CHN	2637	9	1992
9	Salgado Lopez, Ivan	g	ESP	2630	9	1991
10	Kovalyov, Anton	g	ARG	2629	0	1992
11	Safarli, Eltaj	g	AZE	2628	11	1992
12	Matlakov, Maxim	g	RUS	2625	9	1991
13	Negi, Parimarjan	g	IND	2618	11	1993
14	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2602	0	1994
15	Nabaty, Tamir	g	ISR	2581	22	1991
16	Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel	g	ARM	2575	11	1993
17	Hess, Robert L	g	USA	2565	30	1991
18	Nyzhnyk, Illya	m	UKR	2563	22	1996
19	Cordova, Emilio	g	PER	2562	5	1991
20	Zherebukh, Yaroslav	g	UKR	2560	22	1993
21	Hovhannisyan, Robert	g	ARM	2560	11	1991

FIDE Top 20 Girls March 2011

Rank	Name	Title	Nation	Rating	Gms	Born
1	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2602	0	1994
2	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2524	10	1991
3	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2519	9	1991
4	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2476	0	1992
5	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2428	0	1991
6	Paikidze, Nazi	wg	GEO	2425	21	1993
7	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2425	9	1991
8	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	m	RUS	2423	9	1992
9	Cori T., Deysi	wg	PER	2386	0	1993
10	Savina, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2383	9	1992
11	Ding, Yixin	wg	CHN	2376	0	1991
12	Sukandar, Irine Kharisma	wg	INA	2354	18	1992
13	Padmini, Rout	wg	IND	2342	11	1994
14	Bhakti, Kulkarni	c	IND	2339	39	1992
15	Guramishvili, Sopiko	wg	GEO	2334	9	1991
16	Pustovoitova, Daria	f	RUS	2333	13	1994
17	Guo, Qi		CHN	2331	9	1995
18	Nguyen, Thi Mai Hung	wm	VIE	2320	27	1994
19	Kashlinskaya, Alina	wg	RUS	2320	9	1993
20	Soloviova, Liza	wg	UKR	2318	0	1993

Lists and data by courtesy of FIDE

La lista FIDE de marzo de 2011: Anand está por delante de Carlsen
El número uno del mundo en la clasificación FIDE del 1 de marzo nuevamente es Viswanathan Anand (2817) por delante de Magnus Carlsen (2815), aunque por escaso margen. es la mejor valoración en la carrera de Anand. El tercer mejor jugador es Levon Aronian (2808). El grupo de jugadores con Elo superior a los 2700 puntos llega hasta el puesto 38 (Alexei Shirov) inclusive. En la lista femenina, Judit Polgar sigue siendo la mejor con 2686 puntos Elo, seguida por Humpy Koneru (2607) y en el tercer lugar encontramos a la Campeona del Mundo Femenina, Hou Yifan (2602), que a la vez encabeza la lista de las mejores jugadoras juveniles. El mejor jugador juvenil es Fabiano Caruana (que en la lista absoluta figura en el lugar 28)