April-2013 Chess Ratings: Carlsen Remains at No. 1, Aronian No. 2, Kramnik No. 3

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The FIDE April rating list has been published with Magnus Carlsen remaining at the No. 1 slot with the same points as in March  and most of the top ratings remain the same as the Candidates 2013 tournament has not ended yet. Only Boris Gelfand and Vladimir Kramnik have lost nine points and one point respectively from the games at the Zurich Chess Challenge. Here are the top-30 men and women's ratings. For the complete lists check out the Fide website.

Top 30

	Name			Rating
1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2872
2	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2809
3	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2801
4	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2793
5	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2786
6	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2783
7	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2772
8	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2771
9	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2767
10	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2766
11	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2764
12	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2758
13	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2757
14	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2747
15	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2744
16	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2743
17	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2741
18	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2739
19	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2734
20	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2733
21	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2727
22	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2727
23	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2727
24	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2723
25	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2722
26	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2722
27	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2717
28	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2712
29	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2709
30	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2709

Top 30 Women's

1	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2696
2	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2617
3	Koneru, Humpy	g	IND	2597
4	Muzychuk, Anna	g	SLO	2585
5	Zhao, Xue	g	CHN	2565
6	Lagno, Kateryna	g	UKR	2550
7	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2545
8	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	g	RUS	2531
9	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2527
10	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2525
11	Cramling, Pia	g	SWE	2525
12	Cmilyte, Viktorija	g	LTU	2522
13	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2521
14	Kosintseva, Tatiana	g	RUS	2517
15	Gunina, Valentina	m	RUS	2510
16	Harika, Dronavalli	g	IND	2509
17	Ruan, Lufei	wg	CHN	2501
18	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	g	RUS	2496
19	Khotenashvili, Bela	m	GEO	2492
20	Zhu, Chen	g	QAT	2491
21	Ushenina, Anna	g	UKR	2488
22	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2483
23	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2483
24	Paehtz, Elisabeth	m	GER	2479
25	Danielian, Elina	g	ARM	2478
26	Zhukova, Natalia	g	UKR	2476
27	Hoang, Thanh Trang	g	HUN	2476
28	Pogonina, Natalija	wg	RUS	2473
29	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2471
30	Krush, Irina	m	USA	2470

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