Fide Chess Ratings February 2013: Magnus Carlsen at Record 2872

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Fide has released the chess ratings for the month of February, 2013. World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen reached another chess milestone in the first month of 2013 - He equaled Garry Kasparov's 1999 record of 10 points at the just-concluded Tata Steel Chess in Wijk aan Zee. He had already broken Kasparov's earlier highest-ever rating record of 2851 in December, 2012 at the London Chess Classic.
In the February chess ratings list, Carlsen is at 2872. In second place is Vladimir Kramnik - a full 62 points away. In the women's sections, the top places have remained unchanged as only Hou Yifan and Pia Cramling (from the top-10) have played any games in January, 2013. Here are the top players. Read the full rating lists at the Fide website.

Top Men's Ratings
Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2872 13 1990
2 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2810 0 1975
3 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2809 13 1982
4 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2793 0 1987
5 Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2786 13 1990
6 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2780 13 1969
7 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2771 0 1975
8 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2767 13 1987
9 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2766 0 1985
10 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2764 0 1983
11 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2758 0 1969
12 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2758 0 1977
13 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2757 13 1992
14 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2747 0 1976
15 Leko, Peter g HUN 2744 13 1979
16 Wang, Hao g CHN 2743 13 1989
17 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2740 0 1968
18 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2740 0 1974
19 Gashimov, Vugar g AZE 2737 0 1986
20 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2734 0 1983
21 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2733 0 1983
22 Andreikin, Dmitry g RUS 2727 0 1990
23 Adams, Michael g ENG 2725 0 1971
24 Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2723 6 1983
25 Giri, Anish g NED 2722 13 1994
26 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2722 0 1987
27 Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2722 0 1986
28 Areshchenko, Alexander g UKR 2720 0 1986
29 Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2716 13 1985
30 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2715 12 1990

Top-women chess players
Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
1 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2696 0 1976
2 Hou, Yifan g CHN 2617 13 1994
3 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2597 0 1987
4 Muzychuk, Anna g SLO 2582 0 1990
5 Dzagnidze, Nana g GEO 2555 0 1987
6 Zhao, Xue g CHN 2554 0 1985
7 Lagno, Kateryna g UKR 2547 0 1989
8 Kosintseva, Nadezhda g RUS 2531 0 1985
9 Sebag, Marie g FRA 2530 0 1986
10 Cramling, Pia g SWE 2523 9 1963
11 Kosintseva, Tatiana g RUS 2517 0 1986
12 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2516 0 1979
13 Cmilyte, Viktorija g LTU 2515 0 1983
14 Harika, Dronavalli g IND 2514 0 1991
15 Ju, Wenjun wg CHN 2505 0 1991
16 Ruan, Lufei wg CHN 2501 0 1987
17 Khotenashvili, Bela m GEO 2499 9 1988
18 Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2495 0 1984
19 Zatonskih, Anna m USA 2491 0 1978
20 Zhu, Chen g QAT 2491 0 1976
21 Gunina, Valentina m RUS 2490 0 1989
22 Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2482 0 1985
23 Huang, Qian wg CHN 2478 0 1986
24 Ushenina, Anna g UKR 2477 0 1985
25 Pogonina, Natalija wg RUS 2475 0 1985
26 Muzychuk, Mariya m UKR 2471 0 1992
27 Zhukova, Natalia g UKR 2471 0 1979
28 Hoang, Thanh Trang g HUN 2469 0 1980
29 Danielian, Elina g ARM 2466 0 1978
30 Tan, Zhongyi wg CHN 2466 0 1991

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