Drawing by Paul Truong
World’s Top 20 – The 2700 club
1 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2783
2 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2779
3 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2766
4 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2754
5 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2750
6 Leko, Peter g HUN 2749
7 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2744
8 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2741
9 Adams, Michael g ENG 2735
10 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2733
11 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2729
12 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2728
12 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2727
14 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2723
15 Navara, David g CZE 2719
16 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2717
17 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2715
18 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2705
18 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2705
20 Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2700
20 Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2700
Top 5 women of January 2007
1 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2727
2 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2567
3 Cramling, Pia g SWE 2530
4 Zhu, Chen g QAT 2518
5 Xu, Yuhua wg CHN 2517
No Kosteniuk? What happened to the Kournikova wannabe?
Go Judit!
Simone,
She is number 6 (2515)
two points behind Xu.
I played once against her in a simul and lost quick.
Before Kramnik (and apart from Karpov for a brief period before his first match with Kasparov), you have to go all the way back to Spassky in 1972 to find a World Champion who was not also top of the Rating List.
Kramnik is certainly not made of the same stuff his 3 predecessors were.
Anand is within 4 elo of Topalov. Interesting.
I don’t understand this rating list for women. Is Susan still the #2 highest rated woman in the world or not?
She is. She’s just not active. This is the active list.
Topalov lost 16 points in Elista and 14 points in Essent, while Anand doesn’t seem to have played a single game in that period.