Who has the most dominant year so far with 3 months to go before the end of 2011?
| Rk | Name | Title | Country | Rating |
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2823 |
| 2 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2817 |
| 3 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2807 |
| 4 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2791 |
| 5 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | RUS | 2772 |
| 6 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2768 |
| 7 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2765 |
| 8 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2758 |
| 9 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2757 |
| 10 | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2756 |
| 11 | Gashimov, Vugar | g | AZE | 2756 |
| 12 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2753 |
| 13 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2752 |
| 14 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2746 |
| 15 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2746 |
| 16 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2740 |
| 17 | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2737 |
| 18 | Adams, Michael | g | ENG | 2733 |
| 19 | Wang, Hao | g | CHN | 2733 |
| 20 | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2728 |
| 21 | Vitiugov, Nikita | g | RUS | 2726 |
| 22 | Moiseenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2726 |
| 23 | Giri, Anish | g | NED | 2722 |
| 24 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | g | RUS | 2718 |
| 25 | Le, Quang Liem | g | VIE | 2717 |
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
For sure Nakamura. He has the best year of any player in history.
Anonymous 12:30:00
I like sarcasm too. Brian L. is a diplomat.
Hou Yifan has won 2 Grand Prix in succession !
Nakamura for sure in 2011. I look for Susan Polgar to have an outstanding chess year in 2012.
I think a good case can be made for Svidler.
There is almost no case for Nakamura so far in 2011. He had one good tournament, and was mediocre at best in his other elite encounters this year.
Kamsky has had a really good year. Starting in Sept or Oct of last year he jumped up from around 2700 to 2750+ again, when everyone thought he was pretty much finished as a top 20 (not to mention top 10) player.
Gelfand of course, Susan its to obvious u usin trick ?’s!!! lol
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