Carlsen leading, three players above 2800
July FIDE rating list has been published and Magnus Carlsen continues to lead the world chess ranking. For a fourth consecutive time Carlsen is rated number one, after January (ELO 2810), March (2813), and May (2813), he sets his own personal record of 2826 in the July rating list. The result came after the successful performance at Kings Tournament, where he gained the impressive 13 points after a +5 score.
This rating puts Carlsen on the second highest spot ever in the world rankings, only Garry Kasparov has had historically higher rating. On the July 1999 and January 2000 FIDE rating lists Kasparov reached a 2851 Elo rating.
The July 2010 rating list, however, will be remembered with one more important feature. There are three players that are above the mythical 2800 mark. Besides Carlsen, these are Veselin Topalov (for the 8th consecutive time) and the new entrant – the World Champion Viswanathan Anand. The Indian has exactly 2800 points after successfully winning the World Chess Championship and one game from the Hungarian Chess League, and enters the 2800+ rating list for the third time (after April 2006 and April 2008).
The 2700 club
There are no significant movements on the 2700 club list for July. The list of players above 2700 remains the same in number – 37 players, with Nielsen, Onischuk, Nepomniachtchi, and Adams returning to the club.
Among the highest rating gainers in the 2700 list are GM Vitiugov (+15 ELO), GM Navara (+13 ELO), GM Vachier-Lagrave (+13 ELO), and Magnus Carlsen (+13 ELO).
From the rest of the top 100 players rating increase can also be noted, with biggest rating gainers Anish Giri (+30), Bologan (+27), Van Wely (+24), Caruana (+22), Cheparinov (+21)
Women July rating list
Judith Polgar is without any doubt the top women player again on the July rating list. She has 2682 points and increases the gap to the second Humpy Koneru with 22 points to a total of 82 ELO points. Koneru lost 22 points in 11 games leaving Polgar as the clear favorite. However, the distance between Koneru and the chasing players does not reduce – Yifan Hou loses 12 points rating in the 36 games played in the period and Antoaneta Stefanova was inactive. Tatiana Kosintseva is contrasting, with 28 points gain from 11 games all from the Women GP series in Nalchik.
Facts and changes
The male rating list of top 100 players sees the first significant inflation of rating since September 2009. For several lists in a row the numbers of average top 100 rating were moving between 2689 and 2690. On the July rating list the average is 2693, which means that in the past period players have gained a total of 300 ELO points.
As noted, the female July rating list suffers deflation, with total of 200 ELO points lost by the top 100, and an average decrease of 2 ELO points to 2440.
As it is normal with juniors, there is strong rating inflation there and an increase of +4 ELO points average. Girls, however, crash a total of minus 13 points on average, to reach one of the lowest ratings since 2003.
Top 100 players, July
1 Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2826
2 Topalov, Veselin BUL 2803
3 Anand, Viswanathan IND 2800
4 Kramnik, Vladimir RUS 2790
5 Aronian, Levon ARM 2783
6 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE 2761
7 Grischuk, Alexander RUS 2760
8 Eljanov, Pavel UKR 2755
9 Shirov, Alexei ESP 2749
10 Radjabov, Teimour AZE 2748
11 Karjakin, Sergey RUS 2747
12 Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR 2739
13 Gelfand, Boris ISR 2739
14 Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR 2734
15 Svidler, Peter RUS 2734
16 Leko, Peter HUN 2734
17 Malakhov, Vladimir RUS 2732
18 Navara, David CZE 2731
19 Nakamura, Hikaru USA 2729
20 Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS 2726
21 Wang, Hao CHN 2724
22 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2723
23 Movsesian, Sergei SVK 2723
24 Vitiugov, Nikita RUS 2722
25 Bacrot, Etienne FRA 2720
26 Gashimov, Vugar AZE 2719
27 Almasi, Zoltan HUN 2717
28 Wang, Yue CHN 2716
29 Dominguez Perez, Leinier CUB 2716
30 Morozevich, Alexander RUS 2715
31 Kamsky, Gata USA 2713
32 Jobava, Baadur GEO 2710
33 Tomashevsky, Evgeny RUS 2708
34 Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS 2706
35 Adams, Michael ENG 2706
36 Onischuk, Alexander USA 2701
37 Nielsen, Peter Heine DEN 2700
38 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam UZB 2699
39 Caruana, Fabiano ITA 2697
40 Fressinet, Laurent FRA 2697
41 Vallejo Pons, Francisco ESP 2697
42 Bologan, Viktor MDA 2695
43 Alekseev, Evgeny RUS 2691
44 Akopian, Vladimir ARM 2691
45 Timofeev, Artyom RUS 2690
46 Short, Nigel D ENG 2690
47 Efimenko, Zahar UKR 2689
48 Rublevsky, Sergei RUS 2688
49 Miroshnichenko, Evgenij UKR 2686
50 Motylev, Alexander RUS 2685
51 Naiditsch, Arkadij GER 2684
52 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter ROU 2683
53 Riazantsev, Alexander RUS 2682
54 Polgar, Judit HUN 2682
55 Le, Quang Liem VIE 2681
56 Sasikiran, Krishnan IND 2679
57 Van Wely, Loek NED 2677
58 Bu, Xiangzhi CHN 2676
59 Georgiev, Kiril BUL 2675
60 So, Wesley PHI 2674
61 Sargissian, Gabriel ARM 2673
62 Giri, Anish NED 2672
63 Najer, Evgeniy RUS 2672
64 Inarkiev, Ernesto RUS 2671
65 Berkes, Ferenc HUN 2670
66 Smeets, Jan NED 2669
67 Zhou, Jianchao CHN 2668
68 Grachev, Boris RUS 2668
69 Khismatullin, Denis RUS 2667
70 Moiseenko, Alexander UKR 2667
71 Fedorchuk, Sergey A. UKR 2665
72 Sutovsky, Emil ISR 2665
73 Areshchenko, Alexander UKR 2664
74 Bareev, Evgeny RUS 2663
75 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw POL 2663
76 Kurnosov, Igor RUS 2662
77 Cheparinov, Ivan BUL 2661
78 Volokitin, Andrei UKR 2661
79 Dreev, Alexey RUS 2660
80 Mamedov, Rauf AZE 2660
81 Korobov, Anton UKR 2657
82 Zhigalko, Sergei BLR 2656
83 Zvjaginsev, Vadim RUS 2656
84 Ganguly, Surya Shekhar IND 2655
85 Bruzon Batista, Lazaro CUB 2653
86 Andreikin, Dmitry RUS 2650
87 Gharamian, Tigran FRA 2650
88 Meier, Georg GER 2648
89 Kobalia, Mikhail RUS 2648
90 Harikrishna, P. IND 2646
91 Smirin, Ilia ISR 2646
92 Socko, Bartosz POL 2646
93 Ni, Hua CHN 2645
94 Fridman, Daniel GER 2645
95 Roiz, Michael ISR 2645
96 Milov, Vadim SUI 2644
97 Gustafsson, Jan GER 2643
98 Aleksandrov, Aleksej BLR 2642
99 Sokolov, Ivan BIH 2641
100 Macieja, Bartlomiej POL 2639
Top 100 players, July, women
1 Polgar, Judit HUN 2682
2 Koneru, Humpy IND 2600
3 Hou, Yifan CHN 2577
4 Kosintseva, Tatiana RUS 2562
5 Stefanova, Antoaneta BUL 2560
6 Kosintseva, Nadezhda RUS 2551
7 Lahno, Kateryna UKR 2535
8 Muzychuk, Anna SLO 2527
9 Cmilyte, Viktorija LTU 2527
10 Sebag, Marie FRA 2519
11 Kosteniuk, Alexandra RUS 2519
12 Cramling, Pia SWE 2517
13 Chiburdanidze, Maia GEO 2514
14 Harika, Dronavalli IND 2504
15 Pogonina, Natalija RUS 2501
16 Zhukova, Natalia UKR 2499
17 Dzagnidze, Nana GEO 2498
18 Ju, Wenjun CHN 2496
19 Xu, Yuhua CHN 2488
20 Paehtz, Elisabeth GER 2485
21 Galliamova, Alisa RUS 2482
22 Ruan, Lufei CHN 2480
23 Socko, Monika POL 2477
24 Krush, Irina USA 2476
25 Zhu, Chen QAT 2476
26 Hoang Thanh Trang HUN 2474
27 Dembo, Yelena GRE 2470
28 Zatonskih, Anna USA 2470
29 Javakhishvili, Lela GEO 2469
30 Mkrtchian, Lilit ARM 2468
31 Ushenina, Anna UKR 2468
32 Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman IND 2466
33 Gaponenko, Inna UKR 2465
34 Zhao, Xue CHN 2462
35 Gunina, Valentina RUS 2462
36 Tan, Zhongyi CHN 2461
37 Skripchenko, Almira FRA 2458
38 Hunt, Harriet V ENG 2454
39 Muzychuk, Mariya UKR 2452
40 Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan SCO 2451
41 Polgar, Sofia HUN 2450
42 Huang, Qian CHN 2447
43 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina RUS 2447
44 Rajlich, Iweta POL 2446
45 Atalik, Ekaterina TUR 2444
46 Khurtsidze, Nino GEO 2443
47 Melia, Salome GEO 2442
48 Moser, Eva AUT 2440
49 Shen, Yang CHN 2435
50 Repkova, Eva SVK 2434
51 Houska, Jovanka ENG 2433
52 Danielian, Elina ARM 2431
53 Khotenashvili, Bela GEO 2423
54 Matnadze, Ana GEO 2422
55 Munguntuul, Batkhuyag MGL 2421
56 Peptan, Corina-Isabela ROU 2416
57 Zawadzka, Jolanta POL 2415
58 Romanko, Marina RUS 2411
59 Khukhashvili, Sopiko GEO 2409
60 Peng, Zhaoqin NED 2403
61 Cori T., Deysi PER 2403
62 Jackova, Jana CZE 2402
63 Madl, Ildiko HUN 2401
64 Ovod, Evgenija RUS 2401
65 Stockova, Zuzana SVK 2400
66 Vasilevich, Tatjana UKR 2399
67 Zaiatz, Elena RUS 2398
68 Bodnaruk, Anastasia RUS 2397
69 Tania, Sachdev IND 2396
70 Turova, Irina RUS 2394
71 Rudolf, Anna HUN 2393
72 Michna, Marta GER 2393
73 Savina, Anastasia RUS 2392
74 Zhang, Xiaowen CHN 2390
75 Pokorna, Regina SVK 2388
76 Maric, Alisa SRB 2387
77 Ding, Yixin CHN 2385
78 Galojan, Lilit ARM 2384
79 Tsereteli, Tamar GEO 2384
80 Batsiashvili, Nino GEO 2383
81 Zdebskaja, Natalia UKR 2383
82 Gara, Anita HUN 2382
83 Foisor, Cristina-Adela ROU 2381
84 Alexandrova, Olga ESP 2381
85 Molchanova, Tatjana RUS 2381
86 Matveeva, Svetlana RUS 2379
87 Karavade, Eesha IND 2378
88 Kovanova, Baira RUS 2376
89 Girya, Olga RUS 2376
90 Stepovaia, Tatiana RUS 2375
91 Kononenko, Tatiana UKR 2374
92 Shadrina, Tatiana RUS 2374
93 Vega Gutierrez, Sabrina ESP 2373
94 Fierro Baquero, Martha L. ECU 2372
95 Cosma, Elena-Luminita ROU 2370
96 Lomineishvili, Maia GEO 2370
97 Wang, Yu A. CHN 2369
98 Djingarova, Emilia BUL 2368
99 Bojkovic, Natasa SRB 2368
100 Milliet, Sophie FRA 2367
Top 100 July, juniors
1 Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2826
2 Karjakin, Sergey RUS 2747
3 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2723
4 Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS 2706
5 Caruana, Fabiano ITA 2697
6 Le, Quang Liem VIE 2681
7 So, Wesley PHI 2674
8 Giri, Anish NED 2672
9 Andreikin, Dmitry RUS 2650
10 Hammer, Jon Ludvig NOR 2636
11 Kuzubov, Yuriy UKR 2628
12 Khairullin, Ildar RUS 2620
13 Edouard, Romain FRA 2620
14 Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son VIE 2617
15 Howell, David W L ENG 2616
16 Negi, Parimarjan IND 2615
17 Feller, Sebastien FRA 2611
18 Sjugirov, Sanan RUS 2610
19 Salgado Lopez, Ivan ESP 2607
20 Popov, Ivan RUS 2606
Top 100 July, girls
1 Hou, Yifan CHN 2577
2 Muzychuk, Anna SLO 2527
3 Harika, Dronavalli IND 2504
4 Ju, Wenjun CHN 2496
5 Tan, Zhongyi CHN 2461
6 Muzychuk, Mariya UKR 2452
7 Cori T., Deysi PER 2403
8 Bodnaruk, Anastasia RUS 2397
9 Savina, Anastasia RUS 2392
10 Ding, Yixin CHN 2385
11 Girya, Olga RUS 2376
12 Kashlinskaya, Alina RUS 2352
13 Paikidze, Nazi GEO 2346
14 Severiukhina, Zoja RUS 2341
15 Pustovoitova, Daria RUS 2338
16 Ohme, Melanie GER 2326
17 Rakic, Marija SRB 2317
18 Vojinovic, Jovana MNE 2302
19 Havlikova, Kristyna CZE 2299
20 Charochkina, Daria RUS 2298
21 Guramishvili, Sopiko GEO 2298
22 Repina, Varvara RUS 2298