Sunday, January 10, 2010

Carlsen Tops World Chess Ratings With 2810

1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2810 16 1990
2 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2805 4 1975
3 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2790 9 1969
4 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2788 16 1975
5 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2781 17 1982
6 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2761 25 1968
7 Gashimov, Vugar g AZE 2759 21 1986
8 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2749 13 1969
9 Wang, Yue g CHN 2749 8 1987
10 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2744 27 1976

The January 1, 2010 FIDE rating list is out and chess wunderkind Magnus Carlsen is at the #1 position with 2810 points ahead of former World Champion Veselin Topalov
at 2805 and current World Champion Visnwanathan Anand at 2790. Only 5 players in history have ever broken the 2800 rating barrier (Carlsen, Topalov, Anand, Kramnik and Garry Kasparov.) The top American player is Hikaru Nakamura at #28.

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