Nakamura Crosses 2800 In June FIDE Ratings

PeterDoggers

Updated: Jun 1, 2015, 2:17 PM | 35 | Chess Players

For the first time in his career, GM Hikaru Nakamura has crossed the 2800 mark. On the FIDE June 1 rating list the #1 U.S. grandmaster is fourth in the world with 2802, behind GMs Magnus Carlsen (2876), Fabiano Caruana (2805) and Viswanathan Anand (2804).

With the final Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk just behind us, quite a few top players have played rated games last month. On the new list there are four 2800-players, one more than last month. GM Hikaru Nakamura added three points to break the magic mark officially, for the first time in his career.

GM Vladimir Kramnik climbed from #8 back to #6 after gaining six Elo points at the Russian Team Championship in Sochi. He is now ahead of GM Wesley So and GM Alexander Grischuk; the former didn't play while the latter lost only one rating points over 15 games.

After his great play at the Russian league and especially the Grand Prix, GM Dmitry Jakovenko is now “the best of the rest,” just out of the top 10. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave made a dive: he went from #12 to #28 due to disappointing results in the Italian league and the Grand Prix.

June 2015 FIDE Rating List | Top 50

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2876	0	1990
2	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2805	11	1992
3	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2804	0	1969
4	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2802	14	1987
5	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2798	0	1975
6	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2783	5	1975
7	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2781	15	1983
8	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2780	5	1982
9	So, Wesley	g	USA	2778	0	1993
10	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2773	11	1994
11	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2759	17	1983
12	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2753	11	1990
13	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2751	11	1968
14	Navara, David	g	CZE	2751	9	1985
15	Ding, Liren	g	CHN	2749	11	1992
16	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2749	6	1987
17	Li, Chao b	g	CHN	2748	0	1989
18	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2746	16	1983
19	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2745	11	1987
20	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2740	17	1976
21	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2740	0	1971
22	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2738	0	1987
23	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2735	0	1985
24	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2734	5	1987
25	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2733	0	1986
26	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2733	0	1969
27	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2726	7	1987
28	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2723	13	1990
29	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2722	2	1985
30	Wei, Yi	g	CHN	2721	11	1999
31	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2720	7	1990
32	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2720	5	1981
33	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2718	7	1990
34	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2718	1	1983
35	Yu, Yangyi	g	CHN	2715	11	1994
36	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2714	0	1979
37	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2711	0	1977
38	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2711	0	1983
39	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2707	0	1980
40	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2704	11	1989
41	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2704	9	1979
42	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2702	6	1974
43	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	2701	0	1983
44	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2700	0	1976
45	Shirov, Alexei	g	LAT	2699	7	1972
46	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2699	5	1980
47	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2698	7	1985
48	Howell, David W L	g	ENG	2698	3	1990
49	Matlakov, Maxim	g	RUS	2696	6	1991
50	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2696	0	1985

GM Hou Yifan remains the number one female player in the world, but only by one rating point! As reported earlier the 21-year-old Chinese player was in bad shape at the Nakhchivan Open earlier this month, but could limit the damage.

GM Valentina Gunina won 13 points at the Russian league in Sochi and passed GM Ju Wenjun on the list. Georgia now has three players in the top 20 as GM Nino Batsiashvili won 26 points in this period.

June 2015 FIDE Rating List (Women) | Top 50

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2676	9	1994
2	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2675	0	1976
3	Koneru, Humpy	g	IND	2589	0	1987
4	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2573	3	1987
5	Muzychuk, Anna	g	UKR	2549	0	1990
6	Gunina, Valentina	g	RUS	2548	5	1989
7	Ju, Wenjun	g	CHN	2545	0	1991
8	Cmilyte, Viktorija	g	LTU	2534	0	1983
9	Lagno, Kateryna	g	RUS	2530	0	1989
10	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2528	0	1992
11	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	g	RUS	2520	6	1984
12	Zhao, Xue	g	CHN	2519	0	1985
13	Khotenashvili, Bela	g	GEO	2518	11	1988
14	Cramling, Pia	g	SWE	2512	5	1963
15	Harika, Dronavalli	g	IND	2508	0	1991
16	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2499	12	1979
17	Batsiashvili, Nino	m	GEO	2499	11	1987
18	Ruan, Lufei	wg	CHN	2491	0	1987
19	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	g	RUS	2489	0	1985
20	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2487	11	1991
21	Goryachkina, Aleksandra	wg	RUS	2486	18	1998
22	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2486	17	1991
23	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2483	0	1986
24	Zhukova, Natalia	g	UKR	2482	11	1979
25	Krush, Irina	g	USA	2477	0	1983
26	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2476	0	1978
27	Galliamova, Alisa	m	RUS	2475	11	1972
28	Kosintseva, Tatiana	g	RUS	2475	0	1986
29	Socko, Monika	g	POL	2472	16	1978
30	Danielian, Elina	g	ARM	2470	11	1978
31	Pogonina, Natalija	wg	RUS	2465	6	1985
32	Hoang, Thanh Trang	g	HUN	2464	11	1980
33	Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina	m	RUS	2461	17	1974
34	Shen, Yang	m	CHN	2460	11	1989
35	Huang, Qian	wg	CHN	2460	0	1986
36	Javakhishvili, Lela	m	GEO	2459	13	1984
37	Paehtz, Elisabeth	m	GER	2458	16	1985
38	Melia, Salome	m	GEO	2456	11	1987
39	Lei, Tingjie	wg	CHN	2455	11	1997
40	Mkrtchian, Lilit	m	ARM	2451	17	1982
41	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	m	MGL	2448	0	1987
42	Moser, Eva	m	AUT	2442	0	1982
43	Ushenina, Anna	g	UKR	2441	17	1985
44	Ding, Yixin	wg	CHN	2441	11	1991
45	Padmini, Rout	m	IND	2441	0	1994
46	Hunt, Harriet V	m	ENG	2439	2	1978
47	Peptan, Corina-Isabela	m	ROU	2434	0	1978
48	Kashlinskaya, Alina	m	RUS	2432	16	1993
49	Guo, Qi	m	CHN	2429	11	1995
50	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	m	RUS	2428	18	1992

All data courtesy of FIDE.

Chess.com Blitz and Bullet

Like on the FIDE rating list, GM Hikaru (Hikaru Nakamura) won three rating points on the Chess.com Blitz list. His lead there is 70 points as GM LexySexy (Baadur Jobava) didn't play rated games in this period and remained on 2758.

Also online GM LyonBeast (Maxime Vachier-Lagrave) lost points: he went from 2747 to 2714, and dropped to fifth place behind GM GeorgMeier and GM 2vladimirovich90 (Dmitry Andreikin). Two IMs managed to enter the top 10: IM QuestToGM and IM megarompa.

Chess.com Live Chess | Blitz, 1 June 2015 (Top 20)

#	Player	Rating	Won/Lost/ Draw
1	GM Hikaru Nakamura	2828	376/34/29
2	GM Baadur Jobava	2758	37/5/5
3	GM Georg Meier	2735	282/83/56
4	GM Dmitry Andreikin	2715	109/21/13
5	GM Maxime Vachier Lagrave	2714	121/26/16
6	IM Akshat Chandra	2705	63/17/15
7	IM Lucas A. Liascovich	2701	162/22/23
8	GM Eltaj Safarli	2693	27/12/10
9	GM Wesley So	2692	21/12/11
10	GM Tamir Nabaty	2680	1377/164/58
11	GM Nikolay Chadaev	2665	37/2/1
12	GM Nouki	2663	420/149/33
13	GM Даниил	2619	60/22/6
14	GM Liem Le	2614	62/16/14
15	IM Yaacov Norowitz	2614	1516/869/222
16	GM Axel Bachmann	2595	17/6/2
17	GM Falko Bindrich	2578	122/43/10
18	GM Romain Edouard	2573	12/4/2
19	GM Eric Hansen	2572	206/106/18
20	NM TheTruth	2571	1212/20/3

The top GMs did not play bullet games in the past month, and so Nakamura kept his nicely rounded 3100 rating and also his 265-point lead over #2 GM 2Vladimirovich90.

FM wonderfultime (Minh Le), last month still 12th, managed to sneak in and take over the #3 spot from Vachier-Lagrave! Quite a bullet specialist.

Arguably more impressive is the non-titled BulletMercenary (Kevin Chung), a 23-year-old player from Canada with a 2070 FIDE rating, to reach #6!

Chess.com Live Chess | Bullet, 1 June 2015 (Top 20)

#	Player	Rating	Won/Lost/Draw
1	GM Hikaru Nakamura	3100	1603/125/65
2	GM Dmitry Andreikin	2835	59/18/7
3	FM Minh Le	2827	1237/896/145
4	GM Maxime Vachier Lagrave	2819	340/40/21
5	GM Wesley So	2819	13/14/3
6	Kevin Chung	2814	98/64/4
7	GM Liem Le	2806	55/13/4
8	GM Federico Perez Ponsa	2802	247/103/19
9	GM Eric Hansen	2778	892/361/53
10	GM Eltaj Safarli	2766	76/23/9
11	IM Jeffery Xiong	2756	95/32/6
12	GM Azzaro25	2749	80/18/3
13	IM Valeri Lilov	2743	159/87/7
14	GM Nouki	2739	7627 4033/693
15	NM damir studen	2737	120/26/9
16	IM Andrew Tang	2724	2699/1748/279
17	GM Georg Meier	2723	910/497/119
18	FM Kazim Gulamali	2711	998/662/123
19	GM Anthony Wirig	2707	321/151/33
20	IM Boryboy	2704	1090/1084/144

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