Anand Back to 3rd in April FIDE Rating List

PeterDoggers

Updated: Apr 2, 2014, 12:11 AM | 16 | Chess Event Coverage

Thanks to his splendid performance in Khanty-Mansiysk, Viswanathan Anand moved back up to third place in the world rankings. On the April FIDE ratings list, the ex-World Champion won 15 point to reach a rating of 2785, two points more than Vladimir Kramnik. Magnus Carlsen (2881) and Levon Aronian (2812) remain number one and two.

For the world's number one and world champ, Magnus Carlsen, nothing has changed. He did play one game (his win over Vladimir Georgiev for the Norwegian league), but apparently that result didn't reach Elista in time. Levon Aronian's minus score in Khanty-Mansiysk meant a loss of 18 points while Vladimir Kramnik lost 4.

Winning 15 points at the Candidates’, Vishy Anand leapfrogged from 8th to 3rd place. He isn't playing in the next super tournaments, the Gashimov Memorial in April and the Norway Chess tournament in June, but there is still one spot left in the latter. Who wouldn't want to see him playing there?

Sergey Karjakin won 6 rating points and moved up from number 9 to number 7. This month it's more clear than ever how close these players are: Karjakin has exactly the same rating as Veselin Topalov (who lost 13 points and went from 4 to 8) and Hikaru Nakamura (who didn't play). Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who won just 3 points, jumped from 13 to 10.

A bit lower in the list we can see that playing a lot can be good for your chess. David Navara (22 games) and Li Chao (21 games) moved up from #50 and #49 to #39 and #34 respectively.

Judit Polgar dropped 8 points at the European Championship but is still 67 points ahead of Hou Yifan, who lost 11 points.

Below you can see the overall top 100 of active players, and the top 50 of active female players.

April 2014 FIDE Ratings (Top 100)

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2881	0	1990
2	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2812	14	1982
3	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2785	14	1969
4	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2783	14	1975
5	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2783	0	1992
6	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2777	0	1983
7	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2772	14	1990
8	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2772	14	1975
9	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2772	0	1987
10	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2760	14	1985
11	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2758	0	1990
12	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2757	0	1983
13	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2756	14	1976
14	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2753	2	1971
15	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2753	0	1968
16	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2753	0	1969
17	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2747	0	1987
18	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2745	0	1994
19	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2738	0	1993
20	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2734	0	1989
21	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2732	11	1983
22	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2732	0	1990
23	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2730	0	1979
24	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2726	11	1983
25	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2726	4	1986
26	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2723	2	1983
27	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2722	14	1990
28	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2722	13	1983
29	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2722	0	1977
30	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2717	0	1987
31	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2716	14	1987
32	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2714	9	1974
33	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2713	0	1987
34	Li, Chao	g	CHN	2711	21	1989
35	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2711	13	1981
36	Ding, Liren	g	CHN	2710	20	1992
37	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2710	9	1991
38	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2707	11	1980
39	Navara, David	g	CZE	2706	22	1985
40	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2706	12	1985
41	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2706	11	1983
42	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2706	0	1974
43	Kryvoruchko, Yuriy	g	UKR	2704	17	1986
44	Shirov, Alexei	g	LAT	2702	12	1972
45	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2701	13	1986
46	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2701	11	1980
47	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2699	0	1985
48	Rapport, Richard	g	HUN	2698	17	1996
49	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2698	16	1985
50	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2697	11	1987
51	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2693	11	1976
52	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2693	2	1982
53	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2693	0	1979
54	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2691	11	1985
55	Matlakov, Maxim	g	RUS	2690	13	1991
56	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2688	11	1985
57	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2686	11	1986
58	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2686	2	1976
59	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2685	11	1979
60	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2685	11	1976
61	Granda Zuniga, Julio E	g	PER	2685	6	1967
62	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2685	3	1972
63	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2684	11	1983
64	Khismatullin, Denis	g	RUS	2681	11	1984
65	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2680	11	1985
66	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2680	2	1981
67	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2679	0	1975
68	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2678	11	1985
69	Rodshtein, Maxim	g	ISR	2678	9	1989
70	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	g	CUB	2678	0	1982
71	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	2675	11	1989
72	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2674	11	1971
73	McShane, Luke J	g	ENG	2674	2	1984
74	Laznicka, Viktor	g	CZE	2673	21	1988
75	Dreev, Aleksey	g	RUS	2670	11	1969
76	Movsesian, Sergei	g	ARM	2670	7	1978
77	Edouard, Romain	g	FRA	2670	0	1990
78	Yu, Yangyi	g	CHN	2667	11	1994
79	Istratescu, Andrei	g	FRA	2667	10	1975
80	Saric, Ivan	g	CRO	2665	13	1990
81	Fedoseev, Vladimir	g	RUS	2663	11	1995
82	Lysyj, Igor	g	RUS	2662	11	1987
83	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2661	10	1965
84	Lupulescu, Constantin	g	ROU	2660	11	1984
85	Mamedov, Rauf	g	AZE	2660	0	1988
86	Bartel, Mateusz	g	POL	2659	16	1985
87	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2659	11	1986
88	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2657	0	1985
89	Balogh, Csaba	g	HUN	2656	13	1987
90	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	2656	11	1968
91	Safarli, Eltaj	g	AZE	2656	0	1992
92	Najer, Evgeniy	g	RUS	2655	20	1977
93	Lenic, Luka	g	SLO	2655	4	1988
94	Gharamian, Tigran	g	FRA	2655	0	1984
95	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	2654	9	1983
96	Howell, David W L	g	ENG	2654	4	1990
97	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2654	1	1973
98	Sjugirov, Sanan	g	RUS	2653	11	1993
99	Popov, Ivan	g	RUS	2651	11	1990
100	Erdos, Viktor	g	HUN	2651	3	1987
101	Tiviakov, Sergei	g	NED	2651	3	1973

April 2014 FIDE Ratings (Top 50, Women)

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2685	11	1976
2	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2618	11	1994
3	Koneru, Humpy	g	IND	2613	0	1987
4	Muzychuk, Anna	g	SLO	2560	0	1990
5	Zhao, Xue	g	CHN	2552	0	1985
6	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2550	11	1987
7	Lagno, Kateryna	g	UKR	2543	0	1989
8	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2527	11	1991
9	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	g	RUS	2527	0	1984
10	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2524	0	1992
11	Khotenashvili, Bela	g	GEO	2513	11	1988
12	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	g	RUS	2513	0	1985
13	Cmilyte, Viktorija	g	LTU	2511	2	1983
14	Gunina, Valentina	g	RUS	2508	2	1989
15	Hoang, Thanh Trang	g	HUN	2508	1	1980
16	Harika, Dronavalli	g	IND	2507	10	1991
17	Cramling, Pia	g	SWE	2507	3	1963
18	Ruan, Lufei	wg	CHN	2503	0	1987
19	Ushenina, Anna	g	UKR	2501	0	1985
20	Pogonina, Natalija	wg	RUS	2499	0	1985
21	Kosintseva, Tatiana	g	RUS	2496	0	1986
22	Krush, Irina	g	USA	2491	9	1983
23	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2490	0	1986
24	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2489	13	1979
25	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2488	11	1991
26	Huang, Qian	wg	CHN	2484	0	1986
27	Javakhishvili, Lela	m	GEO	2475	11	1984
28	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2475	3	1978
29	Moser, Eva	m	AUT	2463	6	1982
30	Zhu, Chen	g	QAT	2461	0	1976
31	Danielian, Elina	g	ARM	2460	11	1978
32	Khurtsidze, Nino	m	GEO	2460	11	1975
33	Melia, Salome	m	GEO	2459	13	1987
34	Zhukova, Natalia	g	UKR	2459	0	1979
35	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	m	RUS	2453	2	1992
36	Guo, Qi	wg	CHN	2452	11	1995
37	Socko, Monika	g	POL	2450	2	1978
38	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2450	0	1991
39	Mkrtchian, Lilit	m	ARM	2449	11	1982
40	Shen, Yang	m	CHN	2449	11	1989
41	Lei, Tingjie		CHN	2442	20	1997
42	Atalik, Ekaterina	m	TUR	2442	0	1982
43	Skripchenko, Almira	m	FRA	2442	0	1976
44	Paehtz, Elisabeth	m	GER	2440	11	1985
45	Ding, Yixin	wg	CHN	2439	11	1991
46	Hunt, Harriet V	m	ENG	2438	0	1978
47	Peptan, Corina-Isabela	m	ROU	2438	0	1978
48	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	m	MGL	2432	0	1987
49	Tania, Sachdev	m	IND	2427	10	1986
50	Bojkovic, Natasa	m	SRB	2425	9	1971

All data courtesy of FIDE

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