Anand, Judit rule top of Fide chess ratings lists for May 2011

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Judit Polgar 2699

It's great that Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk has gained 19 ELO points in the Fide rating list for May 1, 2011 taking her up to the 10th spot among women at 2522. The highest gain of ELO points has been made by the just-crowned US Women's Chess Champion Anna Zatonskih. Judit Polgar continues to be at the first spot followed by Koneru Humpy and Hou Yifan. 


Among the men, since there were no super tournaments held in March-April, Viswanathan Anand remains at No. 1 with Magnus Carlsen right behind at No. 2.  

Here are the top-30 overall: (No we don't have a woman there yet though Judit Polgar is just shy of the 2700 mark at 2699! We wish her quick 'recovery' of that one point.)

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	BYr
1	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2817	0	1969
2	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2815	0	1990
3	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2808	0	1982
4	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2785	0	1975
5	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2776	9	1969
6	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2776	0	1990
7	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2775	0	1975
8	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2774	0	1987
9	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2772	0	1985
10	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2760	6	1986
11	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2754	10	1983
12	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2747	0	1983
13	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2744	0	1987
14	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2739	28	1976
15	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2733	31	1987
16	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2733	4	1968
17	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2732	20	1983
18	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2732	7	1974
19	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2732	6	1989
20	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2731	5	1990
21	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2726	12	1983
22	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2726	9	1971
23	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2722	30	1982
24	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2721	22	1987
25	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2719	0	1976
26	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2717	0	1979
27	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2716	35	1985
28	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2714	21	1992
29	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2714	11	1987
30	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2712	14	1983

And the women's top-30

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	BYr
1	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2699	11	1976
2	Koneru, Humpy	g	IND	2614	11	1987
3	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2612	20	1994
4	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	m	RUS	2567	0	1985
5	Kosintseva, Tatiana	g	RUS	2559	0	1986
6	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2557	11	1987
7	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2537	27	1978
8	Muzychuk, Anna	m	SLO	2537	20	1990
9	Lahno, Kateryna	g	UKR	2530	10	1989
10	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	g	RUS	2522	7	1984
11	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2520	18	1991
12	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2511	29	1991
13	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2506	16	1979
14	Danielian, Elina	g	ARM	2506	11	1978
15	Cmilyte, Viktorija	g	LTU	2504	21	1983
16	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2504	11	1986
17	Chiburdanidze, Maia	g	GEO	2500	11	1961
18	Galliamova, Alisa	m	RUS	2492	7	1972
19	Socko, Monika	g	POL	2487	20	1978
20	Gunina, Valentina	wg	RUS	2487	15	1989
21	Zhu, Chen	g	QAT	2485	11	1976
22	Xu, Yuhua	g	CHN	2480	11	1976
23	Ruan, Lufei	wg	CHN	2479	3	1987
24	Zhao, Xue	g	CHN	2475	20	1985
25	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2473	14	1992
26	Dembo, Yelena	m	GRE	2471	10	1983
27	Khotenashvili, Bela	m	GEO	2470	17	1988
28	Krush, Irina	m	USA	2469	4	1983
29	Cramling, Pia	g	SWE	2468	18	1963
30	Ushenina, Anna	m	UKR	2468	16	1985

You can access complete lists here.

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