Aronian 4th on September rating list

Levon Aronian is the world's number 4 player in the world on the September FIDE rating list. The Armenian is now one place higher than Vladimir Kramnik, who lost ten points in Dortmund this summer. Pavel Eljanov is now 6th while Vassily Ivanchuk is back in the top 10.


One of the things we hadn't published yet, partly because of the editor-in-chief's long journey eastbound, is the new FIDE rating list. You probably knew already what the top looked like from checking Hans Arild Runde's "live list" (of which the top 10 is also to be found in the far right column on this website).

Besides the change of places 4 and 5 the other story about the top 10 is Eljanov's new rise, from 8 to 6. After winning 6 more points he continues to be Ukraine's number one, though both Vassily Ivanchuk and Ruslan Ponomariov also did well this period, and are not too far behind.

Hikaru Nakamura won 4 points in Amsterdam which was still enough to climb 4 places as well, since the ratings around that number 15 are so close. Michael Adams had an excellent summer and gained 22 points, climbing from 35 to 18. Like Kramnik, Peter Leko lost 10 points in Dortmund and now dropped out of the top 20.

Radoslaw Wojtaszek seems to be picking the fruit of his labour with Vishy Anand, and climbed from 75 to 42 after winning 29 points. Viktor Laznicka did even better and gained 52 points in these two months, re-entering the top 100 at spot 45!

The women's top remains very stable, with very few changes in the top 10. Judit Polgar again didn't play, but Humpy Koneru did. The Indian lost 7 points and so the gap increased from from 82 to 89 points. Below you'll find the new top 100, the top 100 women, the top 20 juniors and the top 20 girls. We give the first two lists including the changes with the previous lists.

FIDE SEPTEMBER 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 100 PLAYERS Legend:
black color - player remained on the same position
green color - player moved up in the list
red color - player moved down in the list
blue color - player is new to the current Top list
Old represents player's position in the previous period list

Rank		Old	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games
	1	1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2826 (0)	0 (-10)
	2	2	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2803 (0)	0 (-12)
	3	3	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2800 (0)	0 (-13)
	4	5	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2783 (0)	0 (0)
	5	4	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2780 (-10)	10 (+10)
	6	8	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2761 (+6)	10 (-6)
	7	7	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2760 (0)	0 (0)
	8	6	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2756 (-5)	10 (-3)
	9	12	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2754 (+15)	9 (-16)
	10	13	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2751 (+12)	10 (-13)
	11	14	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2749 (+15)	10 (-13)
	12	9	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2749 (0)	0 (-7)
	13	10	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2748 (0)	0 (-23)
	14	11	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2747 (0)	0 (-11)
	15	19	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2733 (+4)	10 (0)
	16	28	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2732 (+16)	8 (-21)
	17	15	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2731 (-3)	10 (-8)
	18	35	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2728 (+22)	21 (+6)
	19	20	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2726 (0)	0 (-27)
	20	17	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2725 (-7)	8 (-8)
	21	16	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2724 (-10)	10 (-3)
	22	21	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2724 (0)	8 (-28)
	23	23	Movsesian, Sergei	g	SVK	2723 (0)	0 (-2)
	24	18	Navara, David	g	CZE	2722 (-9)	7 (-2)
	25	22	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2721 (-2)	10 (-2)
	26	26	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2719 (0)	0 (-17)
	27	40	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2718 (+21)	20 (+12)
	28	25	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2716 (-4)	11 (0)
	29	29	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2716 (0)	0 (-10)
	30	32	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2710 (0)	0 (-17)
	31	24	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2709 (-13)	5 (-13)
	32	27	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2707 (-10)	10 (+8)
	33	34	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2706 (0)	0 (-20)
	34	31	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2705 (-8)	9 (-1)
	35	33	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2701 (-7)	9 (+9)
	36	39	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2700 (+3)	19 (-2)
	37	30	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2700 (-15)	9 (+9)
	38	41	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2697 (0)	9 (+5)
	39	58	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2695 (+19)	8 (-18)
	40	55	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2694 (+13)	10 (+1)
	41	50	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2694 (+9)	3 (-11)
	42	75	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2692 (+29)	18 (+18)
	43	44	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2691 (0)	0 (-13)
	44	43	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2691 (0)	0 (-23)
	45	-	Laznicka, Viktor	g	CZE	2690 (+)	19 (+)
	46	42	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2690 (-5)	13 (-15)
	47	45	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	2690 (0)	5 (-13)
	48	46	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2690 (0)	0 (-14)
	49	36	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2688 (-13)	7 (-14)
	50	53	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2686 (+4)	11 (-4)
	51	59	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2685 (+10)	22 (+9)
	52	38	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2685 (-14)	13 (+13)
	53	47	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2683 (-6)	6 (-4)
	54	48	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2683 (-5)	5 (-8)
	55	52	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2683 (0)	0 (-21)
	56	54	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2682 (0)	0 (0)
	57	56	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2681 (+2)	9 (0)
	58	85	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	g	CUB	2679 (+26)	44 (+34)
	59	57	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2679 (+2)	28 (+1)
	60	65	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2678 (+8)	19 (+11)
	61	62	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2677 (+5)	19 (-6)
	62	61	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2677 (+4)	18 (+2)
	63	49	Miroshnichenko, Evgenij	g	UKR	2677 (-9)	13 (+3)
	64	51	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2674 (-10)	23 (+5)
	65	71	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	g	UKR	2671 (+6)	27 (0)
	66	64	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2671 (0)	0 (-13)
	67	37	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2670 (-30)	17 (+15)
	68	81	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2670 (+13)	9 (+3)
	69	86	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2669 (+19)	22 (+12)
	70	66	Smeets, Jan	g	NED	2669 (0)	0 (-9)
	71	60	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2668 (-6)	19 (+1)
	72	68	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2668 (0)	0 (-13)
	73	72	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2665 (0)	0 (-20)
	74	83	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2664 (+8)	9 (+9)
	75	73	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2664 (0)	0 (-1)
	76	74	Bareev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2663 (0)	0 (0)
	77	77	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2661 (0)	0 (-7)
	78	78	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2661 (0)	0 (-4)
	79	67	Zhou, Jianchao	g	CHN	2660 (-8)	8 (-27)
	80	80	Mamedov, Rauf	g	AZE	2660 (0)	0 (-10)
	81	88	Meier, Georg	g	GER	2659 (+11)	19 (+6)
	82	76	Kurnosov, Igor	g	RUS	2659 (-3)	9 (0)
	83	70	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2658 (-9)	18 (+11)
	84	87	Gharamian, Tigran	g	FRA	2658 (+8)	9 (0)
	85	-	McShane, Luke J	g	ENG	2657 (+)	17 (+)
	86	63	Najer, Evgeniy	g	RUS	2657 (-15)	9 (-3)
	87	91	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	2657 (+11)	9 (-7)
	88	92	Socko, Bartosz	g	POL	2657 (+11)	9 (0)
	89	89	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	2656 (+8)	9 (+9)
	90	69	Khismatullin, Denis	g	RUS	2654 (-13)	27 (+18)
	91	84	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	g	IND	2650 (-5)	28 (+19)
	92	100	Macieja, Bartlomiej	g	POL	2649 (+10)	34 (+18)
	93	-	Feller, Sebastien	g	FRA	2649 (+)	21 (+)
	94	79	Dreev, Alexey	g	RUS	2649 (-11)	5 (-28)
	95	97	Gustafsson, Jan	g	GER	2646 (+3)	9 (-2)
	96	90	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2645 (-1)	18 (0)
	97	94	Fridman, Daniel	g	GER	2645 (0)	9 (-14)
	98	96	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	2644 (0)	0 (0)
	99	93	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	2643 (-2)	8 (-27)
	100	98	Aleksandrov, Aleksej	g	BLR	2642 (0)	0 (-31)

FIDE SEPTEMBER 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 100 WOMEN

Rank		Old	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games
	1	1	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2682 (0)	0 (0)
	2	2	Koneru, Humpy	g	IND	2593 (-7)	11 (0)
	3	3	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2578 (+1)	25 (-11)
	4	4	Kosintseva, Tatiana	g	RUS	2573 (+11)	22 (+11)
	5	6	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	m	RUS	2565 (+14)	16 (+6)
	6	5	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2551 (-9)	28 (+28)
	7	7	Lahno, Kateryna	g	UKR	2539 (+4)	9 (+5)
	8	8	Muzychuk, Anna	m	SLO	2535 (+8)	15 (-6)
	9	17	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2534 (+36)	11 (-12)
	10	11	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	g	RUS	2524 (+5)	9 (+9)
	11	18	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2516 (+20)	8 (-18)
	12	14	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2515 (+11)	18 (-11)
	13	9	Cmilyte, Viktorija	g	LTU	2513 (-14)	16 (+9)
	14	12	Cramling, Pia	g	SWE	2509 (-8)	11 (-14)
	15	13	Chiburdanidze, Maia	g	GEO	2500 (-14)	22 (+22)
	16	10	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2499 (-20)	11 (+4)
	17	16	Zhukova, Natalia	g	UKR	2499 (0)	0 (0)
	18	15	Pogonina, Natalija	wg	RUS	2491 (-10)	14 (+14)
	19	24	Krush, Irina	m	USA	2490 (+14)	9 (-15)
	20	23	Socko, Monika	g	POL	2486 (+9)	27 (+23)
	21	30	Mkrtchian, Lilit	m	ARM	2484 (+16)	18 (+7)
	22	26	Hoang Thanh Trang	g	HUN	2482 (+8)	11 (0)
	23	21	Galliamova, Alisa	m	RUS	2482 (0)	0 (-9)
	24	25	Zhu, Chen	g	QAT	2480 (+4)	20 (+8)
	25	28	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2480 (+10)	9 (+9)
	26	22	Ruan, Lufei	wg	CHN	2480 (0)	0 (-6)
	27	19	Xu, Yuhua	g	CHN	2475 (-13)	23 (+21)
	28	33	Gaponenko, Inna	m	UKR	2469 (+4)	31 (+31)
	29	34	Zhao, Xue	g	CHN	2469 (+7)	14 (-12)
	30	20	Paehtz, Elisabeth	m	GER	2467 (-18)	3 (+3)
	31	52	Danielian, Elina	m	ARM	2466 (+35)	29 (+18)
	32	31	Ushenina, Anna	m	UKR	2466 (-2)	13 (+13)
	33	32	Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman	m	IND	2466 (0)	0 (0)
	34	35	Gunina, Valentina	wg	RUS	2465 (+3)	5 (-4)
	35	53	Khotenashvili, Bela	m	GEO	2464 (+41)	23 (+5)
	36	37	Skripchenko, Almira	m	FRA	2464 (+6)	10 (+2)
	37	39	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2464 (+12)	8 (+8)
	38	36	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2461 (0)	16 (-10)
	39	38	Hunt, Harriet V	m	ENG	2454 (0)	0 (-10)
	40	27	Dembo, Yelena	m	GRE	2452 (-18)	9 (+9)
	41	29	Javakhishvili, Lela	m	GEO	2451 (-18)	9 (0)
	42	40	Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan	g	SCO	2451 (0)	0 (-9)
	43	41	Polgar, Sofia	m	HUN	2450 (0)	0 (-5)
	44	45	Atalik, Ekaterina	m	TUR	2447 (+3)	31 (+31)
	45	50	Repkova, Eva	m	SVK	2447 (+13)	9 (+9)
	46	43	Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina	m	RUS	2447 (0)	0 (0)
	47	44	Rajlich, Iweta	m	POL	2446 (0)	0 (-6)
	48	49	Shen, Yang	wg	CHN	2443 (+8)	33 (+20)
	49	47	Melia, Salome	m	GEO	2439 (-3)	29 (+12)
	50	48	Moser, Eva	m	AUT	2436 (-4)	18 (+18)
	51	42	Huang, Qian	wg	CHN	2436 (-11)	16 (-1)
	52	46	Khurtsidze, Nino	m	GEO	2435 (-8)	18 (0)
	53	70	Turova, Irina	m	RUS	2433 (+39)	43 (+43)
	54	54	Matnadze, Ana	m	GEO	2428 (+6)	18 (+9)
	55	51	Houska, Jovanka	m	ENG	2426 (-7)	11 (-1)
	56	59	Khukhashvili, Sopiko	m	GEO	2422 (+13)	9 (-18)
	57	89	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2414 (+38)	22 (+12)
	58	55	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	m	MGL	2412 (-9)	11 (0)
	59	56	Peptan, Corina-Isabela	m	ROU	2412 (-4)	11 (+11)
	60	58	Romanko, Marina	m	RUS	2411 (0)	0 (0)
	61	57	Zawadzka, Jolanta	wg	POL	2410 (-5)	18 (+18)
	62	67	Zaiatz, Elena	m	RUS	2407 (+9)	9 (-7)
	63	73	Savina, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2404 (+12)	9 (-1)
	64	62	Jackova, Jana	m	CZE	2402 (0)	0 (0)
	65	64	Ovod, Evgenija	m	RUS	2401 (0)	0 (-9)
	66	60	Peng, Zhaoqin	g	NED	2400 (-3)	8 (-2)
	67	65	Stockova, Zuzana	m	SVK	2400 (0)	0 (0)
	68	72	Michna, Marta	wg	GER	2399 (+6)	16 (+16)
	69	68	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	m	RUS	2399 (+2)	5 (-5)
	70	66	Vasilevich, Tatjana	m	UKR	2399 (0)	0 (0)
	71	63	Madl, Ildiko	m	HUN	2397 (-4)	10 (-2)
	72	83	Foisor, Cristina-Adela	m	ROU	2395 (+14)	16 (-5)
	73	97	Wang, Yu A.	m	CHN	2394 (+25)	14 (-10)
	74	80	Batsiashvili, Nino	wg	GEO	2390 (+7)	26 (+8)
	75	100	Milliet, Sophie	m	FRA	2388 (+21)	29 (+20)
	76	76	Maric, Alisa	m	SRB	2387 (0)	0 (0)
	77	91	Kononenko, Tatiana	m	UKR	2384 (+10)	10 (+10)
	78	79	Tsereteli, Tamar	wg	GEO	2384 (0)	0 (-8)
	79	69	Tania, Sachdev	m	IND	2382 (-14)	18 (-2)
	80	82	Gara, Anita	m	HUN	2382 (0)	0 (-10)
	81	84	Alexandrova, Olga	m	ESP	2381 (0)	0 (0)
	82	92	Shadrina, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2379 (+5)	9 (+9)
	83	77	Ding, Yixin	wf	CHN	2379 (-6)	8 (-18)
	84	86	Matveeva, Svetlana	m	RUS	2379 (0)	0 (0)
	85	85	Molchanova, Tatjana	wg	RUS	2378 (-3)	9 (+9)
	86	-	Paikidze, Nazi	wg	GEO	2376 (+)	20 (+)
	87	-	Mikadze, Miranda	wm	GEO	2375 (+)	9 (+)
	88	-	Charkhalashvili, Inga	wg	GEO	2375 (+)	8 (+)
	89	90	Stepovaia, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2375 (0)	0 (-8)
	90	78	Galojan, Lilit	m	ARM	2373 (-11)	10 (+1)
	91	-	Sukandar, Irine Kharisma	wg	INA	2372 (+)	18 (+)
	92	-	Gu, Xiaobing	wg	CHN	2371 (+)	6 (+)
	93	88	Kovanova, Baira	wg	RUS	2370 (-6)	11 (0)
	94	75	Pokorna, Regina	wg	SVK	2370 (-18)	6 (+6)
	95	61	Cori T., Deysi	wg	PER	2368 (-35)	46 (+39)
	96	94	Fierro Baquero, Martha L.	m	ECU	2368 (-4)	29 (+23)
	97	93	Vega Gutierrez, Sabrina	wg	ESP	2368 (-5)	18 (-11)
	98	99	Bojkovic, Natasa	m	SRB	2368 (0)	0 (0)
	99	98	Djingarova, Emilia	wg	BUL	2368 (0)	0 (-6)
	100	71	Rudolf, Anna	wg	HUN	2366 (-27)	18 (-9)
	101	-	Goletiani, Rusudan	m	USA	2366 (+)	0 (+)

FIDE SEPTEMBER 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 20 JUNIORS

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2826	0	1990
2	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2747	0	1990
3	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2721	10	1990
4	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2706	0	1990
5	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2700	19	1992
6	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2694	10	1991
7	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2677	19	1994
8	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2669	22	1990
9	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2668	19	1993
10	Feller, Sebastien	g	FRA	2649	21	1991
11	Edouard, Romain	g	FRA	2636	20	1990
12	Hammer, Jon Ludvig	g	NOR	2633	29	1990
13	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	g	VIE	2633	9	1990
14	Kuzubov, Yuriy	g	UKR	2628	0	1990
15	Sjugirov, Sanan	g	RUS	2627	19	1993
16	Khairullin, Ildar	g	RUS	2620	0	1990
17	Howell, David W L	g	ENG	2616	19	1990
18	Matlakov, Maxim	g	RUS	2613	22	1991
19	Safarli, Eltaj	g	AZE	2607	32	1992
20	Popov, Ivan	g	RUS	2606	0	1990

FIDE SEPTEMBER 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 20 GIRLS

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2578	25	1994
2	Muzychuk, Anna	m	SLO	2535	15	1990
3	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2516	8	1991
4	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2515	18	1991
5	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2464	8	1992
6	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2461	16	1991
7	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2414	22	1991
8	Savina, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2404	9	1992
9	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	m	RUS	2399	5	1992
10	Ding, Yixin	wf	CHN	2379	8	1991
11	Paikidze, Nazi	wg	GEO	2376	20	1993
12	Cori T., Deysi	wg	PER	2368	46	1993
13	Kashlinskaya, Alina	wg	RUS	2358	14	1993
14	Guramishvili, Sopiko	wg	GEO	2343	35	1991
15	Pustovoitova, Daria		RUS	2333	9	1994
16	Padmini, Rout	wg	IND	2326	13	1994
17	Muminova, Nafisa	wm	UZB	2319	13	1990
18	Vojinovic, Jovana	wg	MNE	2319	9	1992
19	Havlikova, Kristyna	wm	CZE	2318	22	1992
20	Rakic, Marija	wm	SRB	2317	0	1990

All data courtesy of FIDE