FIDE Chess Ratings: Caruana 19 points behind Carlsen; Grischuk, Kosteniuk Russia No. 1

Hello chess blog friends, the chess ratings list for October have been released by FIDE. World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen remains at the No. 1 slot with a rating of 2863. However, this time he is not too far away from the rest of the field. Just 19 points away is Fabiano Caruana at the No. 2 spot. Caruana gained a whopping 43 points recently to get ahead of Levon Aronian. Caruana is set to play the Baku edition of the Grand Prix as top seed and the next tournament coming up for Carlsen is the World Chess Championship.

Veselin Topalov is up at 2800, Grischuk is at 2979 while Aronian is at 2793. Viswanathan is next with 2785.

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2863 10 1990
2 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2844 16 1992
3 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2800 16 1975
4 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2797 6 1983
5 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2793 10 1982
6 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2785 0 1969
7 Giri, Anish g NED 2768 14 1994
8 Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2767 5 1990
9 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2764 15 1987
10 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2764 11 1985

In the women's section, Judit Polgar is still at No. 1 though she has announced her retirement from professional chess. World Chess Champion Hou Yifan of China is next followed by Ju Wenjun, another Chinese. Indian talent Humpy Koneru is in the fourth spot.

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
1 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2675 0 1976
2 Hou, Yifan g CHN 2673 17 1994
3 Ju, Wenjun wg CHN 2582 15 1991
4 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2581 11 1987
5 Dzagnidze, Nana g GEO 2570 13 1987
6 Muzychuk, Anna g UKR 2548 6 1990
7 Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2542 6 1984
8 Gunina, Valentina g RUS 2530 6 1989
9 Lagno, Kateryna g RUS 2530 5 1989
10 Harika, Dronavalli g IND 2528 11 1991

For the Russians, the top country players are Alexander Grischuk and Alexandra Kosteniuk in the men's and women's section. Incidentally, Chess Queen Kosteniuk recently reached her best-ever rating after winning the World Chess Championship in 2008. Read a nice post by GM Kosteniuk at www.chessqueen.com.

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