U.S. top active players in the next FIDE rating list: Overall: 1. GM Kamsky 27232. GM Nakamura 26973. GM Onischuk 26704. GM Seirawan 26345. GM Shulman 2623 Women: 1. IM Krush 24702. IM Zatonskih 24463. WGM Goletiani 2362 Chess...
The top 10 chess nations
According to Chess Today, the top 10 chess nations in the World according to representation in the top 100 (with the highest rated player deciding in the case of a tie) is: Russia 25Ukraine 11Israel 6USA 5China 5France 5...
Top 10 movers and shakers
According to FIDE, Magnus Carlsen gained 19.5 rating points (the most in the top 15) when the new list comes out on April 1. His current rating is 2733 (2753). #7Anand is currently at 2799. He gained 4.2 points...
Top US Players for January 2008
Top US Players in January 2008 1 Kamsky, Gata g USA 27262 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 26703 Onischuk, Alexander g USA 26644 Seirawan, Yasser g USA 26285 Shabalov, Alexander g USA 26226 Shulman, Yuri g USA 26147 Ibragimov, Ildar...
Anand #1, Wang first Chinese to break 2700
This is the brand new FIDE rating list that just came out today: 1 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 28012as Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 27873 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 27854 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 27695 Leko, Peter g HUN 27556...
FIDE corrected wrong ratings
As pointed out by chessdom, FIDE has miscalculated of a number of players. Topalov is still actually 2nd instead of 3rd with one point less than Kramnik. Adams now only has 1 rating instead of 2. Kamsky gained one...