Fide Chess Ratings Aug 1: Carlsen, Judit Hold on to No. 1 Spot

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The ratings list for August have been released by Fide. Magnus Carlsen continues to be No. 1 with a personal best of 2837. In fact he is 2846 in the live ratings! Aronian is the only other player who is still above 2800. New players to the current top list are Gawain Jones, Daniel Fridman, Wesley So, Romain Edouard, and Vadim Milov. The top 100 rating list has no inflation in the past year. The average of the players is 2701 ELO, two points less than July 2012, and no significant change since July-September 2011.

At the same time entering top 50 is “7 points more difficult” now. In July 2011 Riazantsev was 50th with 2688 ELO, while in August 2012 the same position is for Ding Liren with 2695.

FIDE Top 30 August
Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Day
 1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2837 0 1990-11-30
 2 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2816 0 1982-10-06
 3 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2797 9 1975-06-25
 4 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2788 0 1987-03-12
 5 Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2785 9 1990-01-12
 6 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2780 0 1969-12-11
 7 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2778 0 1987-12-09
 8 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2773 15 1992-07-30
 9 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2770 0 1977-07-18
 10 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2769 0 1969-03-18
 11 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2763 0 1983-10-31
 12 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2752 0 1975-03-15
 13 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2749 0 1976-06-17
 14 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2746 9 1974-06-02
 15 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2738 0 1968-06-24
 16 Leko, Peter g HUN 2737 9 1979-09-08
 17 Gashimov, Vugar g AZE 2737 0 1986-07-24
 18 Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2734 10 1971-12-14
 19 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2734 9 1983-10-11
 20 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2730 5 1987-07-01
 21 Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2730 0 1983-11-26
 22 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2729 8 1985-04-12
 23 Wang, Hao g CHN 2726 11 1989-08-04
 24 Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2725 0 1983-09-23
 25 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2722 16 1983-06-28
 26 Adams, Michael g ENG 2722 10 1971-11-17
 27 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw g POL 2717 0 1987-01-13
 28 Andreikin, Dmitry g RUS 2715 14 1990-02-05
 29 Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2714 0 1981-11-30
 30 Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2713 0 1976-08-29

Top 30 women
Judit Polgar keeps her No. 1 place with 2698, while Anna Muzychuk is second as Yifan Hou has dropped 14 points.

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Day
 1 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2698 12 1976-07-23
 2 Muzychuk, Anna g SLO 2606 0 1990-02-28
 3 Hou, Yifan g CHN 2603 22 1994-02-27
 4 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2593 11 1987-03-31
 5 Zhao, Xue g CHN 2549 22 1985-04-06
 6 Dzagnidze, Nana g GEO 2547 0 1987-01-01
 7 Lahno, Kateryna g UKR 2542 11 1989-12-27
 8 Kosintseva, Tatiana g RUS 2530 0 1986-04-11
 9 Ju, Wenjun wg CHN 2528 22 1991-01-31
 10 Kosintseva, Nadezhda g RUS 2524 11 1985-01-14
 11 Sebag, Marie g FRA 2521 0 1986-10-15
 12 Cmilyte, Viktorija g LTU 2520 13 1983-08-06
 13 Zatonskih, Anna m USA 2512 0 1978-07-17
 14 Khotenashvili, Bela m GEO 2509 16 1988-06-01
 15 Gunina, Valentina m RUS 2507 18 1989-02-04
 16 Cramling, Pia g SWE 2503 16 1963-04-23
 17 Harika, Dronavalli g IND 2503 13 1991-01-12
 18 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2502 18 1979-04-19
 19 Ruan, Lufei wg CHN 2492 11 1987-10-02
 20 Zhu, Chen g QAT 2491 0 1976-03-13
 21 Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2489 14 1984-04-23
 22 Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2483 8 1985-01-08
 23 Danielian, Elina g ARM 2476 14 1978-08-16
 24 Socko, Monika g POL 2467 10 1978-03-24
 25 Krush, Irina m USA 2467 9 1983-12-24
 26 Muzychuk, Mariya m UKR 2466 12 1992-09-21
 27 Galliamova, Alisa m RUS 2465 0 1972-01-18
 28 Xu, Yuhua g CHN 2465 0 1976-10-29
 29 Hoang, Thanh Trang g HUN 2464 0 1980-04-25
 30 Moser, Eva m AUT 2459 7 1982-07-26

For the complete rating lists visit the official Fide website.

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