Carlsen 23 points ahead of Topalov

The gap between Magnus Carlsen (2826) and Veselin Topalov (2803) has increased to 23 points on the July 1 FIDE rating list. The Norwegian won 13 points whereas the Bulgarian dropped 9. Third is World Champion Viswanathan Anand, now with 2800 points exactly. Wang Yue dropped from 8th to 28th.

FIDE has published its July 1st rating list and since all the big events were entered in time, there's no difference between the official top 10 and the "live" top 10 of Hans Arild Runde (which you can also find in the far right column on this website). In fact there aren't very big changes in the top 10 compared to the previous list either.

Carlsen's fine victory in Romania last week got him another 13 rating points and because Topalov lost 9 points in his match with Anand, the gap between the world's number one and two is now 23 points. Those 9 points went to Anand, who thereby surpassed Kramnik to regain the 3rd spot, at a nice 2800 precisely.

At the Kings' Tournament Gelfand lost twice to Radjabov; the two switched places on the rankings between spots 10 and 13. Malakhov and Navara are in the top 20 on this list - the latter thanks to a stunning 8.5/9 at the Czech Championship.

Vugar Gashimov, who was still 7th in the world on the January 2010 list, dropped further to a 26th spot. The biggest skydive was performed by Wang Yue, who lost 36 points and went down from 8th to 28th. Winning 16 points, Wang Hao surpassed him to become China's number one at 2724.

After entering the top 100 on the May list, Anish Giri won 30 more points to climb to a 62nd place at 2672, but the highest rated Dutch player is Loek van Wely with five points more. Ivan Cheparinov is back in the top 100 with 2661.

The women's list is still very stable, with very few changes in the top 10. Judit Polgar again didn't play, but Humpy Koneru did. The Indian lost 22 points at the 3rd FIDE Grand Prix in Nalchik and so the gap increased from 60 to 82 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 JULY 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 (+13)	10 (+10)
	2	2	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2803 (-9)	12 (+2)
	3	4	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2800 (+11)	13 (+11)
	4	3	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2790 (0)	0 (0)
	5	5	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2783 (0)	0 (-10)
	6	6	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2761 (-2)	13 (+9)
	7	7	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2760 (0)	0 (-18)
	8	9	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2755 (+4)	16 (-4)
	9	10	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2749 (+7)	7 (-3)
	10	13	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2748 (+8)	23 (+23)
	11	14	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2747 (+8)	11 (+4)
	12	12	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2739 (-2)	25 (+15)
	13	11	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2739 (-2)	23 (+7)
	14	18	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2734 (+1)	23 (+16)
	15	15	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2734 (-1)	18 (+3)
	16	16	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2734 (-1)	13 (+13)
	17	22	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2732 (+10)	16 (+4)
	18	24	Navara, David	g	CZE	2731 (+13)	9 (-15)
	19	19	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2729 (-4)	10 (+6)
	20	21	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2726 (+1)	27 (+17)
	21	23	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2724 (+2)	36 (+26)
	22	30	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2723 (+13)	12 (-3)
	23	25	Movsesian, Sergei	g	SVK	2723 (+6)	2 (-33)
	24	32	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2722 (+15)	18 (0)
	25	29	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2720 (+10)	11 (-14)
	26	17	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2719 (-15)	17 (+3)
	27	20	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2717 (-8)	2 (-9)
	28	8	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2716 (-36)	29 (+22)
	29	28	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2716 (+3)	10 (+10)
	30	27	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2715 (0)	0 (0)
	31	36	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2713 (+11)	10 (+1)
	32	26	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2710 (-5)	17 (+6)
	33	31	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2708 (0)	0 (-18)
	34	42	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2706 (+11)	20 (0)
	35	41	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2706 (+9)	15 (-4)
	36	38	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2701 (+2)	21 (+12)
	37	40	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2700 (+2)	2 (-7)
	38	39	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2699 (0)	0 (-3)
	39	57	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2697 (+22)	21 (0)
	40	45	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2697 (+8)	8 (-20)
	41	35	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2697 (-6)	4 (-26)
	42	64	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2695 (+27)	28 (+7)
	43	37	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2691 (-9)	23 (+3)
	44	43	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2691 (-3)	13 (+2)
	45	54	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	2690 (+13)	18 (0)
	46	48	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2690 (+5)	14 (+5)
	47	53	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2689 (+12)	10 (-19)
	48	34	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2688 (-16)	13 (+4)
	49	49	Miroshnichenko, Evgenij	g	UKR	2686 (+2)	10 (+6)
	50	33	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2685 (-19)	14 (-7)
	51	47	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2684 (-2)	18 (-16)
	52	59	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2683 (+11)	21 (+2)
	53	58	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2682 (+8)	15 (-5)
	54	50	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2682 (0)	0 (0)
	55	46	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2681 (-6)	9 (-4)
	56	44	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2679 (-11)	9 (+3)
	57	84	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2677 (+24)	27 (+14)
	58	51	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2676 (-5)	26 (+23)
	59	74	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2675 (+13)	13 (-11)
	60	67	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2674 (+9)	18 (+18)
	61	55	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2673 (-4)	16 (+5)
	62	97	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2672 (+30)	25 (+1)
	63	70	Najer, Evgeniy	g	RUS	2672 (+9)	12 (-16)
	64	61	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2671 (+2)	13 (-5)
	65	56	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2670 (-6)	8 (-11)
	66	77	Smeets, Jan	g	NED	2669 (+10)	9 (+3)
	67	86	Zhou, Jianchao	g	CHN	2668 (+16)	35 (+31)
	68	65	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2668 (+1)	13 (-4)
	69	78	Khismatullin, Denis	g	RUS	2667 (+10)	9 (-9)
	70	62	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2667 (-2)	7 (-10)
	71	90	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	g	UKR	2665 (+19)	27 (+14)
	72	75	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2665 (+4)	20 (+9)
	73	71	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2664 (+1)	1 (-21)
	74	72	Bareev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2663 (0)	0 (-11)
	75	73	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2663 (0)	0 (-5)
	76	52	Kurnosov, Igor	g	RUS	2662 (-18)	9 (-19)
	77	101	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2661 (+21)	7 (-4)
	78	69	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2661 (-3)	4 (-21)
	79	81	Dreev, Alexey	g	RUS	2660 (+5)	33 (+12)
	80	85	Mamedov, Rauf	g	AZE	2660 (+7)	10 (-1)
	81	87	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2657 (+8)	6 (-7)
	82	89	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	2656 (+9)	8 (-12)
	83	79	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2656 (0)	0 (-18)
	84	60	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	g	IND	2655 (-17)	9 (+9)
	85	63	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	g	CUB	2653 (-15)	10 (-17)
	86	95	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2650 (+7)	10 (+5)
	87	-	Gharamian, Tigran	g	FRA	2650 (+)	9 (+)
	88	-	Meier, Georg	g	GER	2648 (+)	13 (+)
	89	88	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	2648 (0)	0 (-20)
	90	76	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2646 (-14)	18 (+18)
	91	-	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	2646 (+)	16 (+)
	92	92	Socko, Bartosz	g	POL	2646 (+2)	9 (-9)
	93	66	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	2645 (-22)	35 (+28)
	94	82	Fridman, Daniel	g	GER	2645 (-9)	23 (-13)
	95	68	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	2645 (-19)	11 (-16)
	96	94	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	2644 (0)	0 (0)
	97	100	Gustafsson, Jan	g	GER	2643 (+3)	11 (-13)
	98	-	Aleksandrov, Aleksej	g	BLR	2642 (+)	31 (+)
	99	83	Sokolov, Ivan	g	BIH	2641 (-13)	25 (0)
	100	-	Macieja, Bartlomiej	g	POL	2639 (+)	16 (+)

FIDE JULY 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	2600 (-22)	11 (+11)
	3	3	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2577 (-12)	36 (+24)
	4	7	Kosintseva, Tatiana	g	RUS	2562 (+28)	11 (0)
	5	4	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2560 (0)	0 (-16)
	6	5	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	m	RUS	2551 (-2)	10 (-1)
	7	9	Lahno, Kateryna	g	UKR	2535 (+8)	4 (+1)
	8	8	Muzychuk, Anna	m	SLO	2527 (-2)	21 (-1)
	9	12	Cmilyte, Viktorija	m	LTU	2527 (+13)	7 (-17)
	10	10	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2519 (-5)	7 (-7)
	11	11	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	g	RUS	2519 (0)	0 (-6)
	12	6	Cramling, Pia	g	SWE	2517 (-19)	25 (+4)
	13	13	Chiburdanidze, Maia	g	GEO	2514 (0)	0 (0)
	14	18	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2504 (+13)	29 (+20)
	15	14	Pogonina, Natalija	wg	RUS	2501 (0)	0 (-6)
	16	16	Zhukova, Natalia	g	UKR	2499 (0)	0 (-17)
	17	25	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2498 (+20)	23 (+12)
	18	15	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2496 (-4)	26 (+26)
	19	22	Xu, Yuhua	g	CHN	2488 (+4)	2 (0)
	20	20	Paehtz, Elisabeth	m	GER	2485 (0)	0 (-30)
	21	19	Galliamova, Alisa	m	RUS	2482 (-5)	9 (+9)
	22	28	Ruan, Lufei	wg	CHN	2480 (+6)	6 (+5)
	23	21	Socko, Monika	g	POL	2477 (-8)	4 (-17)
	24	41	Krush, Irina	m	USA	2476 (+21)	24 (+1)
	25	27	Zhu, Chen	g	QAT	2476 (0)	12 (+12)
	26	23	Hoang Thanh Trang	g	HUN	2474 (-8)	11 (0)
	27	31	Dembo, Yelena	m	GRE	2470 (0)	0 (-11)
	28	30	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2470 (0)	0 (-27)
	29	24	Javakhishvili, Lela	m	GEO	2469 (-13)	9 (-2)
	30	26	Mkrtchian, Lilit	m	ARM	2468 (-9)	11 (0)
	31	32	Ushenina, Anna	m	UKR	2468 (0)	0 (-15)
	32	34	Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman	m	IND	2466 (0)	0 (0)
	33	35	Gaponenko, Inna	m	UKR	2465 (0)	0 (-20)
	34	17	Zhao, Xue	g	CHN	2462 (-31)	26 (+18)
	35	39	Gunina, Valentina	wg	RUS	2462 (+5)	9 (-6)
	36	37	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2461 (-3)	26 (+24)
	37	36	Skripchenko, Almira	m	FRA	2458 (-6)	8 (-9)
	38	45	Hunt, Harriet V	m	ENG	2454 (+2)	10 (+10)
	39	43	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2452 (0)	0 (-32)
	40	46	Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan	g	SCO	2451 (+2)	9 (-7)
	41	40	Polgar, Sofia	m	HUN	2450 (-7)	5 (+5)
	42	51	Huang, Qian	wg	CHN	2447 (+10)	17 (+14)
	43	48	Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina	m	RUS	2447 (0)	0 (-16)
	44	38	Rajlich, Iweta	m	POL	2446 (-14)	6 (-16)
	45	49	Atalik, Ekaterina	m	TUR	2444 (0)	0 (-5)
	46	47	Khurtsidze, Nino	m	GEO	2443 (-5)	18 (+7)
	47	33	Melia, Salome	m	GEO	2442 (-24)	17 (-3)
	48	50	Moser, Eva	m	AUT	2440 (0)	0 (-32)
	49	44	Shen, Yang	wg	CHN	2435 (-17)	13 (+10)
	50	52	Repkova, Eva	m	SVK	2434 (0)	0 (-29)
	51	56	Houska, Jovanka	m	ENG	2433 (+16)	12 (-5)
	52	29	Danielian, Elina	m	ARM	2431 (-42)	11 (-1)
	53	62	Khotenashvili, Bela	m	GEO	2423 (+13)	18 (-2)
	54	65	Matnadze, Ana	m	GEO	2422 (+13)	9 (-1)
	55	59	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	m	MGL	2421 (+8)	11 (-2)
	56	57	Peptan, Corina-Isabela	m	ROU	2416 (0)	0 (-9)
	57	58	Zawadzka, Jolanta	wg	POL	2415 (0)	0 (-11)
	58	61	Romanko, Marina	m	RUS	2411 (0)	0 (-17)
	59	54	Khukhashvili, Sopiko	m	GEO	2409 (-12)	27 (+27)
	60	73	Peng, Zhaoqin	g	NED	2403 (+6)	10 (-3)
	61	64	Cori T., Deysi	wg	PER	2403 (-6)	7 (-20)
	62	67	Jackova, Jana	m	CZE	2402 (0)	0 (-2)
	63	76	Madl, Ildiko	m	HUN	2401 (+8)	12 (-5)
	64	55	Ovod, Evgenija	m	RUS	2401 (-17)	9 (-11)
	65	70	Stockova, Zuzana	m	SVK	2400 (0)	0 (-18)
	66	71	Vasilevich, Tatjana	m	UKR	2399 (0)	0 (-23)
	67	77	Zaiatz, Elena	m	RUS	2398 (+6)	16 (+5)
	68	63	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	m	RUS	2397 (-13)	10 (-5)
	69	72	Tania, Sachdev	m	IND	2396 (-2)	20 (+11)
	70	74	Turova, Irina	m	RUS	2394 (0)	0 (-9)
	71	-	Rudolf, Anna	wg	HUN	2393 (+)	27 (+)
	72	75	Michna, Marta	wg	GER	2393 (0)	0 (-18)
	73	60	Savina, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2392 (-20)	10 (-5)
	74	53	Zhang, Xiaowen	wg	CHN	2390 (-36)	17 (+13)
	75	78	Pokorna, Regina	wg	SVK	2388 (0)	0 (-8)
	76	79	Maric, Alisa	m	SRB	2387 (0)	0 (0)
	77	-	Ding, Yixin	wf	CHN	2385 (+)	26 (+)
	78	66	Galojan, Lilit	wg	ARM	2384 (-18)	9 (-2)
	79	68	Tsereteli, Tamar	wg	GEO	2384 (-18)	8 (+8)
	80	-	Batsiashvili, Nino	wg	GEO	2383 (+)	18 (+)
	81	81	Zdebskaja, Natalia	wg	UKR	2383 (0)	0 (-11)
	82	80	Gara, Anita	m	HUN	2382 (-3)	10 (-1)
	83	69	Foisor, Cristina-Adela	m	ROU	2381 (-20)	21 (0)
	84	83	Alexandrova, Olga	m	ESP	2381 (0)	0 (-11)
	85	82	Molchanova, Tatjana	wg	RUS	2381 (0)	0 (-16)
	86	84	Matveeva, Svetlana	m	RUS	2379 (0)	0 (-16)
	87	86	Karavade, Eesha	m	IND	2378 (+1)	9 (0)
	88	93	Kovanova, Baira	wg	RUS	2376 (+10)	11 (-4)
	89	-	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2376 (+)	10 (+)
	90	87	Stepovaia, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2375 (0)	8 (+8)
	91	88	Kononenko, Tatiana	m	UKR	2374 (0)	0 (-11)
	92	89	Shadrina, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2374 (0)	0 (-2)
	93	-	Vega Gutierrez, Sabrina	wg	ESP	2373 (+)	29 (+)
	94	98	Fierro Baquero, Martha L.	m	ECU	2372 (+9)	6 (-3)
	95	90	Cosma, Elena-Luminita	wg	ROU	2370 (0)	2 (-18)
	96	91	Lomineishvili, Maia	m	GEO	2370 (0)	0 (-11)
	97	-	Wang, Yu A.	m	CHN	2369 (+)	24 (+)
	98	-	Djingarova, Emilia	wg	BUL	2368 (+)	6 (+)
	99	92	Bojkovic, Natasa	m	SRB	2368 (0)	0 (-11)
	100	85	Milliet, Sophie	m	FRA	2367 (-11)	9 (-14)

FIDE JULY 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 20 JUNIORS

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2826	10	1990
2	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2747	11	1990
3	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2723	12	1990
4	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2706	20	1990
5	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2697	21	1992
6	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2681	9	1991
7	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2674	18	1993
8	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2672	25	1994
9	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2650	10	1990
10	Hammer, Jon Ludvig	g	NOR	2636	19	1990
11	Kuzubov, Yuriy	g	UKR	2628	0	1990
12	Khairullin, Ildar	g	RUS	2620	34	1990
13	Edouard, Romain	g	FRA	2620	9	1990
14	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	g	VIE	2617	12	1990
15	Howell, David W L	g	ENG	2616	3	1990
16	Negi, Parimarjan	g	IND	2615	31	1993
17	Feller, Sebastien	g	FRA	2611	16	1991
18	Sjugirov, Sanan	g	RUS	2610	0	1993
19	Salgado Lopez, Ivan	g	ESP	2607	14	1991
20	Popov, Ivan	g	RUS	2606	10	1990

FIDE JULY 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 20 GIRLS

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2577	36	1994
2	Muzychuk, Anna	m	SLO	2527	21	1990
3	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2504	29	1991
4	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2496	26	1991
5	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2461	26	1991
6	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2452	0	1992
7	Cori T., Deysi	wg	PER	2403	7	1993
8	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	m	RUS	2397	10	1992
9	Savina, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2392	10	1992
10	Ding, Yixin	wf	CHN	2385	26	1991
11	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2376	10	1991
12	Kashlinskaya, Alina	wg	RUS	2352	21	1993
13	Paikidze, Nazi	wg	GEO	2346	9	1993
14	Severiukhina, Zoja	wm	RUS	2341	19	1990
15	Pustovoitova, Daria		RUS	2338	21	1994
16	Ohme, Melanie	wm	GER	2326	5	1990
17	Rakic, Marija	wm	SRB	2317	11	1990
18	Vojinovic, Jovana	wg	MNE	2302	0	1992
19	Havlikova, Kristyna	wm	CZE	2299	25	1992
20	Charochkina, Daria	wm	RUS	2298	18	1990
21	Guramishvili, Sopiko	wg	GEO	2298	18	1991
22	Repina, Varvara	wf	RUS	2298	17	1992

All data courtesy of FIDE